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Forest Certification
A major movement on the road toward sustainable forestry and forest practices is the idea of green certification. In theory the idea is relatively simple, but in practice it is somewhat more complex. The idea is that forest practices meet a stringent set of sustainable guidelines that are set up and approved by a certification system. The certification system
TEMCO has chosen is the Tree Farm/PEFC certifies that the well-
managed forestry guidelines of Tree Farm/PEFC are being met
by TEMCO. Our management has been PEFC certified since 1999.
Currently there is over 18,000 acres involving nearly 30 properties
under our Tree Farm/PEFC Resource Manager Certification.
TEMCOs certified forestry can bring PEFC certification to private
land owners that meet the standards.
Current Use / UVA Compliance
From a forestry stand point the Use Value Appraisal/Current Use tax designation for timberland provides landowners a reduced annual property tax, assuming their land meets criteria that is established by the program. This designation allows land to be removed from the default highest and best use land tax category, which focuses on a properties highest economic value or potential.
In order to qualify for these programs a landowner has to take efforts to meet a number of established criteria, which vary from state to state. The Ecosystem Management Company has a vast amount of experience with these programs and can help to make sure that the objectives you have for your land meet these criteria.
Forest Inventory - Timber Appraisal
TEMCO will design and apply an appropriate inventory
system for your timberland in order to generate valuable
information about the current conditions and furture
potential of your forest as well as the current market
value for the timber on your property .
Photo: Laura (Forester and GIS technician) measures the diameter of a large eastern white pine during a timber cruise. Our timber cruises are a part of our systematic forest inventory process. The data that we gather during these inventories allows us to evaluate forest conditions and make sound management decisions.
Forest Management Planning
TEMCO will generate a comprehensive
and adaptive managementplan for
timberlands based on inventory data
that is specific to your forest.
These management plans will be
geared toward helping landowners
realize the maximum economic
potential from their land, while meeting
landowner objectives and preserving
the health of the forest and the
potential for non-market opportunities
on the land.
Adaptive Management
Plan - Read more....
MTL foresters implement silviculture on a stand by stand basis, ensuring that every section of a forest gets the management that will best facilitate its health and perpetuity.
Wildlife Habitat Management
What is wildlife habitat management planning?
It is thoughtful, long term planning for the wildlife and habitats on
your land. It considers the landscape that your land lies in and what
habitat management practices are most appropriate and effective
for its plants and animals. Development of long term, realistic goals
is very important. These goals can be determined by asking a
series of questions:
What wildlife species occur in your landscape?
Which of these species do you want to benefit?
What are these species habitat needs?
Which of their habitat needs are met or missing on your land and
the surrounding land?
Which missing habitat needs can you realistically and sustainably
provide on your land?
What habitat management practices are best used to provide those missing habitat needs and maintain existing desired habitat?
Learn to understand, appreciate and manage the native habitats and wildlife that occur on your land. Not every parcel of land can or should provide everything. For assistance in understanding what habitats and wildlife you can most effectively benefit in your landscape, contact MTL a Wildlife private lands specialist. Being a good steward is a lifelong endeavor and the outcome is appreciated for generations!
Custom GIS Mapping / GIS Data Management Mapping
TEMCO will generate and manage state of the art maps of your property using its Geographical Information System technology. This is the newest, most widely used and most accurate method of generating maps of property boundaries and the features that fall within those boundaries.
GIS: Geographical Information System (GIS) is a fairly new and fairly accurate comprehensive mapping system that has been widely adopted amongst natural resource managers. GIS allows for the storage and management of information that corresponds to specific land features and landscape locations. The system utilizes information that is captured by other common forms of technology including geographical positioning systems (GPS) and aerial photography, which allow, when combined with GIS, for the fairly accurate placement and orientation of land features. More simply put, GIS stores data which corresponds to land features for a documented area and allows natural resource managers to manage that data in a way that helps to generate fairly accurate land maps. TEMCO has utilized GIS technology for some time and understands its value and importance in analyzing a forest and planning its management. As a service to landowners TEMCO utilizes this technology to generate a number of property maps for clients. These property maps document property boundaries, forest communities and their distribution, wetlands and other valuable riparian environments, geological features and harvesting system information. These maps are an invaluable resource for TEMCOs management, but also provide landowners with a practical and informative reference for their property and its unique features.
Timber Sale Management
Experienced TEMCO foresters will oversee the timber sale on your property guaranteeing the use of professional loggers, ensuring adherence to management objectives and ensuring the highest market value for your timber.
Timber Sales
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Photo: Jeremy (Managing Forester) standing by a large pile of valuable veneer logs
Financial and Timber Accounting
TEMCOs professional relationships with
mills, pulp mills, log yards and biomass
facilities throughout the New England
area will ensure maximum economic
return for your forest products as well
as accurate and effiecient financial
monitoring and documentation.
A log truck loads forest products for transport to local mills where they will be processed.
Trail and Road Construction
TEMCO's vast experience will
help generate an efficient and
productive layout and design for
timber harvesting on your property.
This efficiency is essential in
minimizing the impact to the land
as well as maximizing access to
timber resources. These intricate
systems will facilitate future harvests
and provide excellent recreational
opportunities for family and friends.
The layout of timber harvest is a vital component of good forest management. Property located and sized roads and log landins can help minimize any lasting impacts in the forest and can help facilitate furture management.
Conservation Easement Planning
Considering the long-term conservation of your land? MTL has an impressive resume of developing and implicating working conservation easements on many of our 30,000 acres in Maine, New Hampshire and Vermont. Let us help facilitate and review your conservation easement to ensure that your land will remain working open green space for generations to come!
Conservation Easement: The culture and quality of life in New England, both past and present, is undoubtedly inseparable from the land and the natural resources it supports. This tie to our natural surroundings has given many New Englanders a special appreciation for the environment and its contribution to the enrichment of our everyday lives. Our awareness has encouraged a movement to ensure the longevity of these environments by legally guaranteeing the conservation of these valued resources with conservation easements. Conservation easements are a legally binding agreement which allows property owners to sell or donate their right to develop the land they own to an outside conservation organization. The terms of a conservation easement may vary, but the general guidelines ensure that no commercial development will take place on the land in the future, because the rights to do so are placed in the hands of a conservation organization. Today, millions of acres of New England forests are currently conserved through conservation easements and many more are becoming conserved every year. Many of MTLs lands are currently conserved and TEMCO has helped several land owners place their lands under conservation easements by utilizing the experience we have gained from conserving the land we own and manage.
Forestland Acquisition
Recreation Leases
MTL offers some unique recreational
opportunities amidst some of New
Englands most exceptional forested
and mountainous landscapes. On
our properties in Washington,
Topsham, and Windham, VT we
offer the opportunity to lease
three architecturally unique cabins .
These picturesque settings make
for ideal getaways for family and
friends no matter what the occa-
sion or season.
MTL's log cabin in Washington, VT is nestled within a secluded and picturesque setting.
Inventory
Inventory : Inventory refers to the process that TEMCO uses to document certain characteristics of a forest. Given the average size of forested land it is often inefficient and impractical to document information about every single tree in every area of a forest. So TEMCO, just like most other natural resource managers,
has adopted a number of statistical methods and systems that allow us to sample several individual sections of a forest and utilize this information to understand forest conditions in areas that have similar characteristics. TEMCOs inventory procedure is very extensive and includes collecting forest information from the very tops of the trees down to the geology and soils that support those trees. TEMCOs multidimensional inventory evaluates the species, size, health, potential forest products, canopy position and wildlife benefits of over story trees. The inventory documents the numbers, sizes and conditions of the dead standing trees in a forest stand (Dead standing trees, referred to as snags, play an important ecological role as a source of food and habitat for song bird species and small mammals). The inventory records qualitative and quantitative data regarding regeneration and understory conditions, including stocking levels, species composition and the vigor of vegetation growing below the canopy and close to the forest floor. It also includes specific information about forest floor conditions such as course woody debris (logs lying on the forest floor that are an important source of both habitat for wildlife and nutrients for soil fertility), soil and drainage conditions, and invasive species. Many of these forest characteristics, documented by MTLs inventory efforts, are unique to our companys level of engagement and forestry planning and allow us to best determine characteristics that are specific to a given forest and its health, productivity and future potential.
Adaptive Management Plan
An adaptive management plan is a comprehensive collaboration of information regarding the past use, present conditions and future objectives of each specific land that TEMCO manages. The management plan is designed to provide both you, the landowner, and TEMCO, the manager, with a complete understanding of the physical and biological characteristics of a forested property as well as its role within a larger landscape. At TEMCO we take a great deal of pride in our management plans as we understand their importance as a resource for both the landowner and TEMCO in evaluating the overall management objectives and the prescriptions that will achieve those objectives. The content of each management plan begins with a broad overview of the property as a whole. This overview evaluates woodlot history, landowner objectives, geological attributes, water resources, soils, natural communities and many other important land features. The plan then delves deeper into an evaluation of the forest by focusing on individual stands. A forest stand, simply put, is defined as an area within a forest that is composed of similar tree species, age structures and tree distribution and that is at least one acre in size. These stand by stand evaluations focus on dominant species, age and size of trees, health and quality of trees, regeneration and a number of other vital stand characteristics. The fact that management takes place on a stand level (addressing each stand individually rather than the forest as a whole), makes these stand by stand evaluations an invaluable tool for accurate and appropriate management. Adaptive management plans, aside from being a valuable resource for management are an invaluable educational tool for a landowner, helping them to become intimate with the features and characteristics that are specific to their land.
Selling the timber on your property is a crucial component to the overall management of your land. This is the feature of management that not only makes owning and investing in land a feasible and rewarding endeavor but also the feature that works to support local jobs and economies. This component of the management process can be a complex undertaking and can often make it tricky to ensure that you get the most return for the merchantable trees on your property. To do so requires knowledge of markets and their quality specifications, the ability to accurately scale (a volume determinant) and grade (a quality determinant) logs, the ability to identify high quality logs that will meet the specifications of specific niches in the forest products industry and the ability to ensure that logs are processed in a manner that will allow them to meet their highest economic potential. Throughout the years TEMCO has developed a wealth of knowledge regarding timber and forest products markets and has developed strong working relationships with the local mills and processing plants that help support these markets. TEMCOs forest management provides much more than just an inventory of your property and a management plan that will incorporate your objectives for the land. TEMCO will oversee the prescribed harvesting operations on your land and will ensure that professional loggers, with a high level of integrity and appreciation for our goals, work to achieve the highest level of return for the timber on your property.
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