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What the Guidelines Do Not Do The guidelines are not a substitute for a resource management plan. Guidelines are intended to support implementation of a plan once it is in place. The guidelines are not intended to replace any existing rules or regulations. The guidelines are not intended as a substitute for obtaining professional assistance as needed to achieve management objectives or meet appropriate engineering standards. They are guidelines, not construction standards or engineering specifications. The guidelines are not designed to help determine whether a particular forest management activity should or should not occur. They are designed instead to provide guidance in how to implement a particular forest management activity. The guidelines are not intended to address all forest management activities and all forest resources. They address major forest management activities as they relate to selected components of a healthy forest. The guidelines do not cover all management options related to a particular forest resource. Wildlife guidelines, for example, provide the essentials to address site-level habitat issues, but they do not list all possible techniques for improving forest habitats or for managing particular species.

Before Implementing Guidelines: Setting Goals and Developing a Plan Implementing Guidelines is not the first step in forest management. Implementing guidelines does not take the place of setting goals or developing a forest stewardship plan. As a private forest landowner, your first responsibility is to decide what you want to do with your land. Why do you own this land? What are your goals? Once you've identified your goals, you need to conduct a site inventory and then develop a forest stewardship plan.

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