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A forest stewardship plan will provide you with voluntary, long-range planning advice based on your goals and the capacity of your land. A plan will also help you design activities, make informed decisions, manage your land efficiently, avoid costly errors, and evaluate progress in attaining your goals. Many landowners choose to work with experienced professional foresters to identify goals and to develop forest stewardship plans. The Sustaining Minnesota Forest Resources guidebook provides detailed information about identifying goals, as well as conducting a site inventory. Once you have identified what you want to do, and once you've developed a plan for doing it, it's time to look to the guidelines to help you decide how to implement the forest management activities outlined in your plan.	For Professional Assistance... Before implementing guidelines, it's important to set goals and develop a plan. Minnesota's Forest Stewardship Program provides voluntary long-range planning for individual landowners through the development of Forest Stewardship Plans. For the preparation of most plans, there is either no direct cost or a small cost to forest landowners. Implementation of any part of the plan by private forest landowners is voluntary. You may choose to implement all, some or none of the ideas presented in the plan. Primary sources of assistance for developing forest stewardship plans are the Minnesota Department of Natural Resources (DNR) Division of Forestry, consulting foresters, industrial foresters and some local Soil and Water Conservation District offices. The DNR Division of Forestry cooperates with other plan preparers to assure that landowners receive appropriate assistance. For more information: Call The Minnesota DNR Private Forest Managemetn Program (651-296-5760) or the Minnesota Forestry Association (800-821-8733) for the names of qualified foresters in your area. Visit the Web site of the Private Forest Management Program at www.foreststeward.org	Guidelines at Work: Sample Guidelines and How They Can Help Manage and Sustain Forest Lands The following photographs represent examples of some of the timber harvesting guidelines that help maintain healthy forests by sustaining cultural resources, forest soil productivity, riparian areas, visual quality, water quality and wetlands, and wildlife habitat. In many instances, it may be possible to implement several guidelines simultaneously (as demonstrated in a number of the photos).

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