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GUIDELINES
for Forest Management

"How-To's" for Private Forest Landowners
The Challenges You Face as a Private Forest Landowner

As a private forest landowner, you share ownership of more than 40% of Minnesota's 14.8 million acres of timberland. Your role in helping assure the sustainability of these 6 million acres of our forest resources is a critical one.

As you know, private forest ownership is a challenging responsibility:

How do you balance your management goals related to economics, aesthetics, recreation, wildlife habitat, and long-term sustainability of the private forest lands that you own, care about, and assume responsibility for?

Where can you find the kind of guidance you need to assure that your management activities are both effective and appropriate?

Once you know what you want to do, and once you have a plan in place, how do you make it happen?




This booklet introduces guidelines for sustainable forest management. As a private forest landowner, if you should decide to actively manage your forest lands, these guidelines are one tool to help you do so sustainably.

Introducing the Guidelines
What the Guidelines Are: A Flexible Framework of "How-To's" for Forest Landowners...2

Flexible, Voluntary Guidelines To Meet Your Particular Needs...3

What Sustainability Means...3

How Guidelines Help Sustain a Healthy Forest...4-5

What the Guidelines Do Not Do...6

Before Implementing Guidelines: Setting Goals and Developing a Plan...6-7

For Professional Assistance...7

Guidelines at Work: Sample Guidelines and How They Can Help Manage and Sustain Forest Lands...7-12
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