Sustainable Woods improves
forest quality through
developing high standards:
We offer private forest
landowners a type of land
management centered around
enhancing the long-term health
and productivity of the forest
while meeting the needs of the
landowner. In order to promote
practices which are sustainable,
ASD provides landowners with
education and technical
assistance in forest management
and works with loggers in
implementing environmentally
sensitive harvesting techniques.
ASD's
Standards of
Sustainable Forest Management
are a set of guidelines that
direct both the planning and the
implementation of our activities
in the field. These Standards
have been developed by our staff
and a community advisory group,
and have been approved by our
Board of Directors. The
Standards are written as a
living document, subject to
continuous evaluation and
adaptation.
Services to Landowners
Development of a long-term
forest management plan:
Identification of the
landowner's objectives,
inventory and description of
forest resources, and
development of management
recommendations for meeting
objectives.
Development of a timber
harvest plan:
Delineation of harvest area,
delineation of special
management zones within harvest
area, designation of timber to
be harvested, delineation of
skid trails, skid roads, haul
roads, and landings.
Identifying and coordinating
with loggers
and overseeing the harvest
operation:
identifying environmentally
sensitive logging firms,
development of a logging
contract between landowner and
logger,
notification to state forestry
department of harvest operation,
periodic monitoring of harvest
operation.
 Landowner
FAQs
Interested
in participating?
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“The thing that is important to
me is that locally grown and
harvested woods products can and
are being used by local
craftsmen to create something
beautiful. And more important
to me is that this program
leaves a healthy woods and
forest in place.”
--Jennifer Wagner, Landowner
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