The New Yorl( Forest Owner A PUBLICATION OF THE NEW YORK FOREST OWNERS ASSOCIATION
September/October 2002
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THE NEW YORK In This Issue • • • FOREST OWNERS ASSOCIATION FROM THE PRESIDENT Volume 40, Number 5 RON PEDERSON " 3
Officers & Directors NYFOA MEMBER NEWS 4 Ronald Pedersen, President 22 Vandenburg Lane, Latham, NY 121 10; (518) 785-6061 JOHN OLNEY NAMED TREE FARMER OF THE YEAR 5
John Druke, Vice President 6341 Kirkville Road LoGGING OFF THE THIRD REICH Kirkville, NY 13082; (315) 656-2313 MIKE MONTE ...... • _ .•...... 6 Open, Secretary WOODLOT CALENDAR 11 Jerry Michael, Treasurer 4 Leonard Lane, Binghamton, NY 13901; (607) 648-2941 NEWS AND NOTES 11 Debbie Gill, Administrative Secretary P.O. Box 180 Fairport, NY 14450; (585) 377-6060 AMENDING THE NEW YORK FOREST TAX Lxw KEVIN BRAZILL AND RENE GERMAIN ...... ••...... 12 Joan Kappel, Chair Editorial Committee P.O. Box 646 Altamont, NY 12009-0646; (518) 861-8753 MANAGING NEW YORK'S CONIFER PLA...'\"T.ITIO_-
2003 MARK KEISTER, HARRY DIETER & LLOYD DIE:~ m. __ mnmm.m •••••••••••••••••••••• 14 Hugh Canham, N. Syracuse, (315) 457-4972 Roy Esiason, Granville, (518) 642-2351 Jerry Michael, Binghamton, (607) 648-2941 BEE1LES THAT DAMAGE WHITE ASH Ronald Pedersen, Latham, (518) 785-6061 DOUGLAS C. ALLEN ...... •....•..••.•.•...... 16
2004 Keith Hedgecock, Pleasant Valley, (845) 635-1279 THE FLTC TAX REpORT 19 Bob Malmsheirner, Cazenovia, (315) 470-6909 Geff Yancey, Rochester, (585) 271-4567 Paul Yarbrough, Ithaca, (607) 277-3011 DEVELOPING A WOODWT STEWARDSIllP i\1:\..."'-! GE..'.~-y PLAt'l'
2005 PETER J. SMALLIDGE ...... ••...• _••••..•.•...... 20 Jim Beil, Schenectady, (518) 355-4471 Jack Hamilton, Wayland, (585) 728-5769 Billy Morris, Bath, (607) 776-4992 Sharon Wieder, Machias, (716) 942-3006 Chapter-Designated Directors Charlie Mowatt, Allegheny Foothills; (716) 676-3617 Joan & Hans Kappel, Capital District; (518) 861-8753 Thomas Conklin, Cayuga; (315) 638-1765 John Druke, Central New York; (315) 656-2313 The New Yorl( Anne Osborn, Lower Hudson; (845) 424-3683 Pat Ward, Northern Adirondack; (315) 268-0902 Dave & Jean Preston, Niagara Frontier; (716) 688-4921 Christine Wiley, SE Adirondack; (518) 692-9292 Charlotte Baxter, Southern Tier; (607) 967-8516 Forest Ow Open, Southern Finger Lakes A PUBLICATION OF THE NEW YORK FOREST ~. - _-_._J'-'_ Ray Cavallaro, Western Finger Lakes; (585) 288-3411 The New York Forest Owner is a bi-monthlv publi . Forest Owners
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2 eptember/October 2002 · ,NYFOA is a not-for- profit group of NY State FT~President OID. landowners promoting Jstewardship of private forests for the sources that can be considered for orstarters, I must thank Vice- benefit of current and future generations. President John Druke for his publication. Through local chapters and statewide Fexcellent column in this space in the * activities, NYFOA helps woodland last Forest Owner. Peggy and I were in New Income tax on timber sales is admittedly owners to become responsible stewards Zealand with nine other couples working on complicated and has been the subject of and interested publics to appreciate the houses for Habitat for Humanity, and then articles in past Forest Owner issues. importance of New York's forests. we went on to see relatives in Australia. Recently I was reminded of the importance Join NYFOA today and begin to receive New Zealand is a beautiful country, with of keeping basic records. Briefly, if you've its many benefits including: six issues of lots of grass being marketed through sheep, just sold timber, you'll be much happier at The New York Forest Owner, cattle, and red deer farms for venison. And, tax time if you've kept good books through woodswalks, chapter meetings, and two lots of trees, many of which are Radiata the years. On the other hand, if you are statewide meetings. Complete and mail pine, which grows fast, isn't fussy about looking forward to selling timber sometime this form: soils, is more resistant to disease than many in the future, now is probably a good time other species, to begin some record keeping. l/We would like to support good for- responds quickly Timber sales, of course, produce taxable estry and stewardship of New York's to thinning, and income. The important question is how forest lands has low shrinkage much tax is due, keeping in mind that it is properties for not improper to apply the rules to reduce ( ) I1We own acres of wood- lumber. the amount of tax to be paid. One is asking land. We had limited for trouble, however, if the income and the ( ) IlWe do not own woodland but opportunities to tax due is not reported. If you or your support the Association's objectives. explore the huge advisors need to know more, you might try Name: _ timber industry, the National Timber Tax website Address: _ but at the visitor's center for a Fletcher (www.timbertax.org) developed at Purdue City: _ Challenge demonstration forest, we saw two University in cooperation with the Forest "cookies" (a cross section of a tree) that Service. It is a recognized source for State/ Zip: told an incredible story. They were very timberland owners, as well as consulting Telephone: _ similar in size - each about 4.5 feet in foresters, accountants and others working in County of Residence: _ diameter. They were both species that had this field. County of Woodlot: been introduced to New Zealand - one, * Referred by: _ California Redwood, and the other Radiata New York Woodland Stewards, Inc Pine. Their ages were dramatically different (NYFOA's charitable foundation) welcomes Regular Annual Dues: - the redwood was 96 years old, the pine George (Geff) Yancey as its new president, ( ) Student $10 was 46 years old. New Zealand expects to be following Jill Comell's resignation in July. (Please provide copy of student ID) ( ) Individual $25 increasing and sustaining its total wood (See page 4). Geff is a member of ( ) Family $30 harvest. NYFOA's Board of Directors, an active Sustaining Memberships * MFO in the Mouroe and Wayne Counties (Includes NYFOA annual dues) The folks who work hard to bring us six area, and brings to NYWS a broad ( ) Contributor $50-$99 excellent Forest Owner magazines each background in private business development ( ) Sponsor $100-$249 year would like your help. Forest and management. Thanks, Geff for taking ( ) Benefactor $250-$499 landowners have a wide 311'ayof interests on this added responsibility. ( ) Steward $500 or more and motivations, and Mary Beth Mark your calendars for November 2, For regular memberships, make check Malmsheimer, editor, and Joan Kappel, 2002. This year, our Lower Hndson payable to New York Forest Owners Association. For sustaining NYFOA editorial committee chair, do their best to Chapter is hosting NYFOA's fall meeting memberships, indicate if for individual satisfy as many interests as possible. (see page 11), which starts at the Alice or family and make check payable to You can help by letting them know Desmond Fish Library in Garrison NYWS (New York Woodland Stewards, subjects you find of most interest, areas (southwestem Putnam County) and then Inc.) Contributions to NYWS in excess you'd like to see covered more often, and moves to the field for woodlot visits. It is a of NYFOA dues are normally tax deductible. Send the completed form to: other reactions you have. We can all thank beautiful time of year in the Hudson Valley NYFOA Joan and Mary Beth for their continuing and I hope many of you will plan to attend. P.O. Box 180 efforts by taking time to let them know of Fairport, New York 14450 our comments, by sending along -Ron Pedersen 1-800-836-3566 photographs, and suggesting writers or President www.nyfoa.org
The New York Forest Owner 40:5 • September/October 2002 3 the first recipient of the Friend of the Forest award. Eric has had a long involvement in forestry and conservation. He is a forestry graduate who has operated Lange's Grove Side Resort on Route 23 in Acra. Eric has hosted the Conserva- tion Field Days for Greene County youth since 1970. In addition, he is serving or has served on the Soil and Water Conservation District Board Jill Cornell Steps Down responsibilities. And, she agreed to (including Chairman of the Board), On July 16, Jill Cornell stepped down guide NYWS during its crucial Greene County Cornell Cooperative as President and Director of New York formation years. Extension Board and the Region 4 New Woodland Stewards, Inc. The NYWS Jill's commitment and dedication have York Forest Practice Board. He has Board reluctantly accepted her been an inspiration to many and her been a strong and consistent supporter of resignation, recognizing the boundless energy will continue to be conservation and forest management. unsurpassable energy she has put into very evident with the Southeast His woodlot at Lange's is used by his the job. Adirondack and Capital District guests to gain exposure to sustainable NYFOA leadership had considered Chapters, as well as her many other forest management. In 1999, Eric was creation of a tax-exempt charitable endeavors. elected New York Outstanding Tree organization (or a change in NYFOA's The New York Woodland Stewards Farmer, in part for his model manage- status) for several years, but action had Board extends this special thanks, as Jill ment of his woodland and in part for his not been taken. completes her time as President. service to the forestry community and While Jill served as President of outreach efforts. NYFOA, the question again was raised, Eric Rasmussen, Friend of the Over the years, he has hosted meet- and her leadership and the help of many Forest ings at Lange's for the State Forest carried through to the creation of New The Capital District Chapter of Practice Board, the New York Society York Woodland Stewards, Inc., in YFOA has instituted a new award of American Foresters, and the Capital effect, NYFOA's foundation. recognizing people who have made District Chapter of NYFOA. He also Jill recognized the long term significant contributions to the forest regularly welcomes committee meetings importance to NYFOA's mission that resources of New York. NYFOA is a of the MohawklHudson Resource and could stem from an organization with member organization with a mission of Development Council and other groups charitable status. Tax-exempt charitable encouraging forest owners to become working on conservation efforts. status means that 1) contributions can be better stewards of their woodlands. The It is for his dedication and tireless tax deductible for individual donors, award has been created to increase support of natural resource conservation and 2) very importantly, the organ- awareness of people who have made an that the Capital District Chapter of ization can be a recipient of grants from impact locally. Consequently E11C NYFOA selected Eric Rasmussen their other foundations or government. Rasmussen of Acra has been selected as first Friend of the Forest. .4-. With Jill as its first president, NYWS has now passed through the required probationary period and the Internal Revenue Service recently granted NYWS permanent tax exempt status. fountain forestry Jill's record of achievements with NYFOA and NYWS is outstanding, but Tupper Lake, NY (518) 359 3089 her willingness to jump in when needed [email protected] is perhaps her defining characteristic. As a member of the NYFOA Board of Lake George, NY (518) 668 3237 Directors, she was asked mid-term to [email protected] fill in for an unexpected vacancy in the office of vice president. Later, again Services for Private, Public, and Corporate Landowners Worldwide unexpectedly, she was asked to step up and assume the president's position and www.fountainforestry.com
4 The New York Forest Owner 40:5 • September/October 2002 John Olney lOS1ED toJ!!.~'~ARNING
~Menter =:..."""",:::.S7JIcJt~- N amed Tree Fanner t!~£..-'-~, r""",c...p..y;~.-=iI Custom -- of the Year and Stock Signs for the John Olney of Westernville in Albany. They have also been has been recognized as Tree presented with a Gift Pack Forest Industry Farmer of the Year by from Stihl, nationwide on Aluminum and Plastic New York State Tree sponsor of the Tree Farm. A Tree Farmer Farmer of the Year Screen Printing Specialists since 1959, and long Contest. VOSS SIGNS, LLC time member of Nominations are Dept. TF, Box 553 THRIFT (Tug Hill currently being accepted Manlius, NY 13 104-0553 Resources Investment for for the 2003 Tree Farmer of Ph. 1-800-473-0698 Tomorrow) and NYFOA, Mr. the Year. If you are, or know or (3 15) 682-6418 Olney has continued a family of a Tree Farmer doing Call for Catalog tradition of land stewardship. outstanding work, please contact your and Free Samples The Olney Tree Farm has been in inspecting forester to be nominated. the family since 1860. Forestry For more information on having your visit US at activities are documented back to a woodlands certified as a Tree Farm, www.vosssigns.com softwood plantation from 1914 that please call the Tree Farm Office at Custom Screen Printing (800) 836-3566. converted an unused field to 4. for over 35years woodlands. For the past 45 years, John Olney has led his family in seeking out professional advise and using that knowledge to intensively manage the property. Future Forest Recommendations were followed on a timely basis, and the result has been the continuous production of high (onsulting, Int. quality wood products while protecting water quality, wildlife DEC Cooperating Forest Consultants habitat, and recreation opportunities. Timber harvests in excess of 300,000 Corey Figueiredo and Scott Graham board feet each have taken place on the 129 acre Olney Tree Farm every • FOREST PRODUCT MARKING • TIMBER APPRAISALS & MARKETING 20 years since 1939. • SUGARBUSH~AGENlliNT • ~AGEMENTPLANS For their achievement, Mr. & Mrs. • BOUNDARY MAINTENANCE Olney were presented an award by • FOREST ROAD CONSTRUCTION AND DESIGN • TREE PLANTING DEC Commissioner Erin Crotty and • WETLAND DESIGN New York Tree Farm Chair Michael • FOREST TAXATION PLANNING Bums during the Arbor Day • NON-COMMEROAL FOREST • TIMBER TRESPASS IMPROVEMENT FOR TIMBER, APPRAISALS Ceremony at the Governor's Mansion WILDLIFE, F.LP. & S.LP • ENVIRONMENT AL REMEDIATION
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The New York Forest-Owner 40:5 • September/October 2002 5 Learning to use an axe was one of the skills Boyd Monte had to teach some of his fellow soldiers.
Logging Off The Third Reich
MIKE MONTE
e live in a time when being a ists that plague the timber industry, I will logger was needed and conscripted lumberjack, in some circles, say that whether or not the people who against his will. I would be a year older W is akin to being a criminal. are preserving trees know it or not, they if the story hadn't happened, but happen While I won't get into all the horror do need and depend on loggers. This it did. stories about the radical environmental- story is about another time, when a My father, Richard "Boyd" Monte, was a child of the Great Depression, and like many of that generation, was faced with World War Il when he was a youth. He served his country as a combat infantryman in Patton's Third Army as a member of the 80th Infantry Division. He would be embarrassed to be called a hero, but the men who answered their country's call in the '40s certainly fit everybody's definition of heroes. This, however, isn't really a war story, it's a lumberjack's tale. Dad, along with some of his friends, was cutting logs for a guy named Keith Jesse, near Phelps, Wisconsin in the fall of 1941. The depression had abated somewhat, and the time spent in Jesse's logging camp was good, with regular pay and decent food. According to Dad, the tragedy at Pearl Harbor was two weeks old before word got into camp. All of the younger men knew that it was just a matter of time before they traded red plaid The "trophy" deer on the GI's shoulders was one of six that were culled from the German herd for for khaki, and by spring, they were fresh meat. The author's father, Boyd Monte, is standing on the far right. headed for physicals and basic training.
6 The New York Forest Owner 40:5 • September/October 2002 My father was a lucky man for awhile. He was posted to an anti-aircraft unit on Washington State's Mercer Island. They manned four 90-millimeter guns and kept a sharp eye out for Japanese airplanes that nobody thought would ever materialize. The mountains and woods of coastal Washington State were a great place to be for a lumberjack, and they even got to do some logging of sorts. The gun revetments were made of logs and dirt, and the trees were cut nearby, dragged to the gun site and peeled before being placed around the gun. Dad said axes were issued to men who had never held one before, and they were told to peel the logs. A grinning officer said that when you had the bark off three of the tree-length logs, you could take the rest of the day off. At nine in the morning, the officer Mine timbers were often bought from the Germans. Both iron and coal were necessary to get the stopped the Wisconsin lumberjack and German economy back on its feet. asked him where in the hell he was going. "My logs are peeled," answered So, with his M-l in hand, a full estate he had just crossed was bought Dad, and the amazed 2nd lieutenant pack, and complete ignorance of with a fearful price. watched him walk off. warfare, he disembarked from a ship The next stop was a replacement depot. The easy days ended when the on the floating docks at Normandy For days on end, troops sat and waited Japanese took their fearful beating at the Beach in September of 1944. The their turn to replace those who had fallen Battle of Midway, in the summer of '42. activity on the beach was amazing. in battle. Eventually, he was picked from Any threat the Japs may have held for Men and materiel was being moved the crowd and sent to the 80th Division, a the West Coast went away with the four efficiently and with great dispatch to unit that had been originally formed from Japanese aircraft carriers that were sunk the men at the front. The cemetery on men in the Blue Ridge Mountains, hence in the middle of the Pacific. top of the bluffs made a very sobering the blue hills on the shoulder patch. The Army, being a practical institution impression on him, with endless rows The 80th was in the Moselle Valley, for the most part, had no use for of crosses, and he realized that the real heavily engaged in a disagreement with artillerymen where no threat existed, but continued on page 8 they were to have a strong need for an inexhaustible supply of infantry troops in Susan J. Keister, L.L.C. the upcoming struggle with Hitler. So, Forestry Consulting and Environmental Management Services from the green forests and rushing Specializing in the sale and harvest of low grade hardwood timber streams of Washington, the men who NYS-OEC Cooperating Consulting Forester SAF Certified had trained hard to rapidly fire a 90- Services Include: millimeter, were put on troop trains and Management Plans Timber Stand Improvement -SIP hauled to Kansas for advanced infantry -Marking -480a -Implementation training. So much for the good life. Commercial Timber Harvests Damage Appraisals My father liked the M-l rifle. He said -High Quality Hardwoods -Strategy and advice it fit him like a glove, and he was an -Low Grade Hardwoods -Stump Cruises expert shot with the weapon. He hated -Softwoods -Valuations machine guns, knew they were the Federal Wetlands Delineations Land Clearing/Development favorite target of enemy soldiers, and -Permit Applications said he made sure he never came close General permit and environmental management advice including to a target when he fired one. He felt he wetlands, mining, local timber harvesting and special use permits. could survive the war with an M-l in his 585-728-3044 ph/fax • 7025 Harpers Ferry Road· Wayland, N. Y. 14572 hand and enough loaded clips. [email protected]
The New York Forest Owner 40:5 • September/October 2002 7 and a judge who gave him a choice of the Army or another type of organized living, Leon was there. He told my dad that if he had to be in the Army, he wanted the full treatment. Leon was a machine gunner, and he was having a tough time keeping a machine gun crew. They kept getting killed, and Leon said he had had enough. He was resigning from the war. Unfortu- nately, Captain Phillips wasn't going to allow it. Leon said he might stay if the Wisconsin lumberjack was put on his gun crew. Phillips said all right, and told Dad to join Leon's crew. Dad protested that that he wasn't worth a damn with a machine gun, didn't even qualify at the range, and Phillips said that didn't make any damn difference out here. Dad claimed that Leon kept him from losing it in the weeks that followed. His wisecracks, Yankee manner and logger humor when things were bad gave Using a Cat D-8 to log near Rothenfels, Germany. him a boost. It is interesting to note that my father couldn't remember the name of the Wermacht over who was to own the to walk across the valley, he watched as a one other man who served in that five- real estate. My father rode to the front on truck and trailer pulled up the graves man crew, and there were many, as they a load of 30-06 ammo. Sitting on top of registration people started loading the kept getting killed. He said it was easier the load with all his gear, he hung on to corpses that littered the ground along the not to know their names. the bows that should have held the canvas road. He said that he was scared as hell Trench foot is when the feet are covering, and bounced along. They and wondered how a lumberjack had ever constantly kept immersed in cold water stopped on the heights above the valley. got into such a mess. and mud, and as a result, the small The Germans were laying down an The barrage moved, the truck roared capillaries plug with coagulated blood. artillery barrage, walking the '88s across down the hill and Dad hung on. They Nerve damage follows, and if the the landscape. reached the farmyard, the truck slowed, condition isn't rectified, gangrene sets in The truck driver stuck his head out of Dad jumped off and ran for a concrete and the foot, and possibly the lower leg, the window and said, "Hang on! When barn. It was there that he met another is amputated. the barrage gets to the other side of the lumberjack. It was a common condition that fall in valley we're gonna floor it. When we get Leon Jenkins was a logger from West France, not afflicting everyone, but a to that clump of trees by the barn down Burke, Vermont. He was 39 years old great many. Dad, Leon, and the rest of there, I'll slow down and you jump off." and didn't have to be on the front because the gun crew were put in a holding While my father waited for the barrage of his age, but due to a scrape back home position on the bank of the Seille River. Patton's big push across France was 271 County Road #9 (607) 648-5512 stopped so that British General Mont- Chenango Forks, N.Y. 13746 E-mail [email protected] gomery could have the lion's share of the gasoline, food and other military stores. Patton ranted and raved, but Eisenhower, trying to keep the British allies happy, said no. It was the wettest and coldest autumn in years, and men from the 80th Division, with scant food Timber Appraisal Forest Stewardship Plans and inadequate footwear and no warm Timber Sales Forestry 480-A Plans clothing settled into mud-filled holes. The Restore the American Chestnut Germans shot across the river and the GIs shot back, but nobody moved.
8 The New York Forest Owner 40:5 • September/October 2002 Presumably, the Germans were just as miserable and cold as the Americans, but both sides stayed and did their duty. After 30 days in this holding position, the tanks were gassed up, and the 3rd Army went back on the offensive, but a great many of the troops in that area, including Dad, could only shuffle into the attack on the Rhineland. My father was pulled from the line in early November. His feet and ankles doubled in size when his Army oxfords and leggings were cut off by a doctor who was readying the 80th for the relief of Bastogne up in the Bulge. He was sent to a hospital in Nancy, France along with hundreds of other soldiers suffering from the same ailment. Log landing on a planted timber job in Germany It was November 14, 1944, and the last solid food he and his fellow soldiers had except for one homesick Wisconsin France. At Dijon, he enjoyed eating an enjoyed was on the morning of Novem- lumberjack. Dad rushed over to the camp American hamburger, the first in nearly a ber 6. An inadequate diet and lack of headquarters and asked for his orders. year. proper clothing had thinned the ranks The officer in charge asked his name, Shortly, he was in Epernay, France, more efficiently than the Nazi army. Dad Dad told him, and he said, "Oh yes, your reporting to an officer in charge of an had lost over 60 pounds in 54 days of orders are in the drawer. Here they are. engineering outfit that was given the task combat. You're going back to France." of cutting timber and sawing lumber that Until that time, feet were routinely "The hell I am!" he replied, and, of was needed for bridges, housing the amputated, but a new doctor in the course, he was told, "Yes you are!" The occupation forces and keeping their hospital tried something else. As soon as officer asked if he had been a lumberjack supplies out of the weather, as well as they were able, all the men in the ward before the war, and Dad said he had any of the thousands of other uses the were led in exercises that saved their been. The officer replied that they really Army had for boards. Mine timbers were feet-not everybody's, but most. The needed a lumberjack, and after searching also produced, as coal was needed to heat men held their legs in the air for a certain the files, thousands of names, he was the homes and barracks. count, then they stood up, and then they only one available. After another trip Dad said he was rude to that officer. lay down and repeated the process. Blood across the English Channel, he put in He refused to salute and was surly. This began to flow into plugged veins. Within another 21-day hospital stay in Dijon, officer, instead of standing on military days, the black gangrenous spots on continued on page 10 Dad's legs and feet started to disappear. Walking, instead of shuffling, became possible, and most of the boys were sent to England for further recovery. The weeks went by, and in the spring, the German Army was whipped. The U.S. Army was faced with thousands upon thousands of soldiers who were homesick, lonely for the fairer sex and anxious to get back to the U.S.A. Huge tent camps were set up near harbors and named after cigarettes. There was Camp Pall Mall, Camp Chesterfield, and Camp Lucky Strike, where Dad awaited his Liberty Ship. The orders were handed out. You were told what pier to report to and what ship to load on. Everybody was given orders Trucks were loaded by pushing the logs up skids with a crawler or pulling them with a winch.
The New York Forest Owner 40:5 .·September/October 2002 9 protocol, seemed to understand the bitter eventually Nuremburg. German foresters were aghast when a thoughts my father entertained. He They often worked with German two-acre landing was pushed in with the explained that he knew that Dad had done prisoners and were also charged with dozers and whole sections of trees were his part. The Combat Infantry Badge on guarding the prisoners. Dad found out cut and loaded on trucks. Some of these his uniform was proof of that. He knew that most of them had been drafted, like foresters were the third generation of that it wasn't fair, but that he was really him, and were anxious to resume their their family to manage the stand. Their needed. His kindness received little former lives. Dad, and another man who tears flowed, but the logging progressed response from the despondent PFC, so he served with him, Bob Tweedy of St. according to schedule. Technically, it said "get in the jeep, I'll show you what Cloud, Minnesota, both say the same was still a war situation, and the rules, we're doing." thing. With the exception of most of the especially German rules, were sus- Dad described the quiet trip in the jeep Waffen SS troops, the German soldier pended. In the years that followed World out of the village to a hilltop overlooking was much like an American GL Most of War II, my father, like everyone who a logging job. Caterpillar D-8 dozers the German soldiers hadn't wanted to go was involved in the timber business, equipped with winches were pulling pole to war either. learned about sustainable logging. length pine to a landing, As they Dad said he usually didn't bother Dad was in Nuremberg when he was watched, a 2nd lieutenant was running carrying a firearm. Nobody was trying to finally allowed to go back to Wisconsin alongside a pole trying to get the attention escape. A prisoner was guaranteed three after 19 months overseas. During that of the Cat operator, who didn't know meals a day and a cot, and at that time, in extra year of duty he had seen a lot of enough to look back. Germany, food and a warm spot to lay Germany. He had hunted wild boar and The pole was bent between the stumps, your head was at a premium. those tiny deer they have in Europe. and it was obvious that as soon as the end Dad said there was an exception. A They drank a lot of wine and, contrary to of the pole cleared the stump, the pole prisoner spent hours hanging on the wire every order, they fraternized with their was going to whip straight, cutting the of the stockade, looking down on a small fOID1erenemies, finding that they liked a lieutenant in two, The end of the pole German village. With the German he had good time, just like themselves, and cleared the stump as the lieutenant fell learned and the English picked up by the much of the hate accumulated during the down, the tree whipping harmlessly over prisoners, he found out that this soldier war drained away. his inert body. He stood up as the Cat had been on the eastern front. He had They also had the honor, as Dad put it, skinner looked back. He jumped from the managed to get captured by the Ameri- of cutting and sawing the timbers used in dozer to see if the officer was hurt. When cans, and not the Russians. the gallows that were needed after the he left the machine, another tree was He hadn't been home for four years, Nuremberg War Trials wound down. felled over his empty seat. and he hadn't received a letter from his Though very homesick, Ithink Dad was It was a painful thing for a logger to family for two years. He was looking glad to have put in the extra time, and I watch. The officer said that these guys down at his home, and could see people have to admit that I don't mind not being were from the New York City and New in the yard and walking in the door. That a year older. Jersey area, and had absolutely no was too much. Dad sent him home for Dad came back to his hometown of experience harvesting timber. He asked the day with a promise to be back by Argonne, Wisconsin and opened a what they should do next, and Dad said, dark. garage. He worked on farm equipment at "Tell them to stop, We're going to open As the sun went down, my father first, but switched over to logging a logging school." started to get nervous, so he drove down machinery as the woods began to In a short time, the men were well on to the house just as the door opened and a mechanize in the '60s. He alway liked their way to becoming loggers. They former German soldier and his family logging, and he enjoyed the loggers who were clear-cutting planted pine over 100 stepped out with a basket filled with fresh hung around his garage after work, He feet tall, with crosscut saws, and the bread, jam, and homemade wine. All for knew that loggers aren't usually appreci- German forester in charge was almost Sergeant Monte! (Dad had been pro- ated by the society they work bard to insane at the terrible forestry practices, I moted, and was no longer a lowly PFC). support, but he also knew that they can would like to write that they honored his This prisoner was allowed to go home be real popular wben in hort upply' wishes and followed his cutting plan, but regularly. By the way, Leon Jenkins. the Ver- to the victors go the spoils, and that This was the first time that my father mont logger, continued in the fight until includes the timber. experienced forestry. Back in Wisconsin, the end of the war. He settled in Califor- They logged in several locations, if a tree had a log in it, it was cut. In nia, was succes ful as a cabinetmaker. leaving France for Wurzburg, Germany, Germany, they had depleted their forest married, and corre ponded with m where they became occupation troops. reserves a century earlier. Most of the father until his death. A. Some time was spent at Rothenfels, a timber cut by Dad and the other GIs had This article originally appeared in the March small village on the Main River, another been planted, and some of those trees 2002 issue of TIle Xonhem Loeeer and is small village called Aschaffenburg, and were nearly 100 years old back in 1945. reprinted with their permission.
10 The New York Forest Owner 40:5 • September/October 2002 Woodlot Calendar
September 14,2002 (Saturday) October 12, 2002 (Saturday) Tour of Herman Pallet Mill Silvicultural Demo Day Did you ever wonder where the low grade material on your This morning in the woods will be dedicated to seeing woodlot could be marketed? Pallet mills provide a forest the results of different forest cutting techniques. Discussion owner wth a viable option to make a profit with timber stand will cover the stand conditions before cutting, objectives of improvement cuttings. The owners will provide a tour and cutting, and the results. We'll tour several areas and learn discuss the daily opertions of their mill located in Marion, how to properly approach various stand management issues. NY. Registration may be required. For further information Location: Comell University's Arnot Forest, 611 CR. contact Harry Dieter at (585) 533-2085 13, Van Etten, NY. Mark your calendar! Sponsored by the Southem Finger Lakes Chapter. September 21, 2002 (Saturday) Catskill Mountain Ginseng Festival November 2, 2002 (Saturday) First annual Catskill Mountain Ginseng Festival is being held Fall NYFOA Meeting on Saturday, September 21 from 10 AM until 5 PM. The The Lower Hudson Chapter has agreed to run the fall Festival will take place at the Point in the Village of Catskill, NYFOA meeting (a first for us). It is scheduled for 8:30 arn NY, Greene County, a beautiful spot right on the Hudson on Saturday November 2nd in Garrison NY. We will have a River. There will be lectures and workshops all day long on moming gathering and welcome with coffee at the Alice cultivation and use of ginseng, good food (even ginseng Desmond H. Fish Library in Garrison at the comer of Routes food!), music, lots of ginseng and other herb products for 9D and 403. Parking may be limited out in the field. At sale. The festival is being co-sponsored by Comell Coopera- 10:00 am we will be carpooling to a trail leading to the tive Extension of Greene County and the Catskill Kiwanis Garrison Union Free School Forest for a historical interpreta- Club. tion of the land use and the Revolutionary War history of the South Redoubt. Weather permitting, we will picnic there, October 6, 2002 at 1:00 pm (Sunday) then continue on via carpool to visit private woodlands under Hi- Tor Wildlife Management Area Tour various ownerships: newly acquired, thirty years manage- NYSDEC Senior Wildlife Biologist Bruce Penrod will lead a ment, and multi-generational. We will wrap up at Anne tour of the unique Hi-Tor area in Naples, NY. Discussion Osbome's house, with tea, and return folks to their cars will revolve around wildlife management activities on the before dark. property including a recent timber harvest. For more infor- For more information please contact Anne Osborn at mation contact Harry Dieter at (585) 533-2085 (845)-424- 3683.
attracted a lot of interest. The Board been suggested, but conference plan- felt that if this can be worked out, the ning is still at an early stage. programs and speakers assembled for our annual program would attract a ,k. Recently the Boards of NYFOA broader audience from among folks a.. and New York Woodland Stew- visiting the show. Many attendees are ards (NYWS) created a joint committee farm and rurally oriented, and may to review and recommend the best appreciate the opportunity to receive organizational structure for the two forest management information. entities. NYWS was created in 1997 as ,j; At the June meeting of NYFOA's a 501(c) 3 charitable organization. The a.. Board of Directors, the Board ,j; Next year, the Society of Ameri- intent at that time was to enhance our supported serious exploration of having a.. can Foresters is holding its na- ability to seek tax deductible contribu- our 2003 annual program and meeting tional meeting in Buffalo on October tions, grants and other forms of support at the state fairgrounds in Syracuse at 23-29,2003, with the New York to further the stewardship mission of the same time as the New York Farm Chapter as host. NYFOA Director NYFOA. Comments are welcome and Show in late February. Several thou- Hugh Canham, as chair elect of may be directed to Ron Pederson or sand people attend the exhibition and NYSAF, along with a number of other Geff Yancey." our Central NY Chapter has had a NYFOA friends, is actively involved in booth for several years which has the planning. A role for NYFOA has
The New York Forest Owner 40:5 • September/October 2002 11 KEVlN BRAZILL AND RENE GERMAIN
e combination of "the building parcels for recent decades at rates well Aerial photographs of the state and boom" of the last decade and above those attributable to more people satellite imagery depict a landmass rich historic shifts in forestland needing more space - about 1.6 times in forests. Its appearance can lull ownership patterns is threatening the faster than population growth resource managers and policymakers long-term viability of private forests in (DeCoster 1998). Across the country, into believing that all is well with New this state. Of New York's 18.6 million an estimated ISO million acres of the York's extensive working forests. We acres of forestland, 15.5 million acres productive timberlands will be held in call this attitude "forest cover are classified as timberland, with 14.4 pieces of 100 acres or smaller by 2010, complacency" because on-the-ground million acres of that land owned by and the average size of individual inspection of those forestland approximately 500,000 (and growing) forest ownerships will be about 17 ownership trends often presents a very nonindustrial private forestland (NIPF) acres (Sampson and DeCoster 2000). different picture. A forest that appears owners (Birch 1996). NIPF owners Closer to home, recent studies in as a seamless expanse of green from supply 90% of the roundwood used by central and southeastern New York the vantage point of a car or an hundreds of New York State sawmills indicate that the average NIPF parcel is airplane could be owned by one person (Germain 1998). These landowners approaching 20 acres. or dozens of different people with control the future of forestry in the As one of the most heavily forested various goals and objectives. The region. Given the importance NIPFs to states in the Northeast, New York extent of the state's forestland may be the state, the time is right for New depends on its forests for timber, water a misleading indicator for the relative York's Forest Tax Law to playa more quality, recreation, and aesthetics. scarcity of the services provided by the prominent role in maintaining the forested working landscape. As urban areas expand and development sprawls into formerly rural areas, NIPF owners are profiting from the appreciation of real estate values by subdividing and selling their property. Over the past decade, forestland was the largest source of rural land converted to urban-developed uses in the nation; it accounted for more than one-third of the total land converted (USDA 1999). That is not to say, however, that all privately held forestland will soon be converted into residential or commercial use. But the trend toward smaller parcel sizes and therefore less available forest resources for timber-based industries (from milling to recreation) is evident. To be sure, the issue is not simply one of a growing human population developing greater expanses of forestland. Private forests in the United States have been fragmenting into smaller ownership A typical rural landowner owner's property containing 25 acres with a mix of forests and old fields.
12 The New York Forest Owner 40:5 • September/October 2002 forests because a "no net loss" of PA: USDA Forest Service, timberland may mask substantial Northeastern Forest Experiment PONDS UNLIMITED declines in services rendered (Wear Station. INVITES yOU .... 1999). Although much of the state lies DeCoster, L. "Adapting Programs to beneath a canopy of trees, the Fragmented Forests." Forest to think of all of the benefits you availability of the forest resources for Fragmentation Roundtable could enjoy from having a pond or harvest, water quality, recreation, and Discussion. Society of American a lake on your own property. This management exclusively depends - in Foresters Headquarters. Bethesda, idea could become a reality if the right conditions prevail. From our most cases - on the individual MD, 16 January 1998. landowner's priorities and decision- Germain, R.H. 1998. New York experience it normally requires making. The decisions made by the Sustainable Forestry Initiative favorable watershed conditions, growing number of NIPF owners in the Progress Report. 21 p. good site conditions, owner state, occupying smaller and smaller Sampson N. and L. Decoster. 2000. commitment to stewardship for woodlots, have rippling effects on the Forest Fragmentation: Implications enhancement of forest land values, health of the region's economy and for Sustainable Private Forests. appropriate engineering planning and design, and good construction ecology. Journal of Forestry. 98(3):4-8. Among the drivers of parcelization Wear, D.N., R. Liu, J.M. Foreman, practices. are upwardly spiraling land values and R.M. Sheffield. 1999. The Effects of high rates of taxation, both of which Population Growth on Timber PONDS UNLIMITED CAN EVALUATE the site of your conspire to make economically viable Management and Inventories in choice. We can provide all of the forest management difficult to attain. Virginia. Forest Ecology and engineering services needed to A realistic tax incentive program could Management. 118: 107-115. greatly help the cause. In its current USDA Natural Resources Conservation plan, design and oversee the construction of a dam to create a form, §480-A of the New York State Service. 1999. Summary Report: handsome pond or lake on suitable Real Property Tax Law is open to 1997 property. You can get additional landowners holding at least 50 Natural Resources Inventory. (Re ised contiguous acres of forestland, the December 2000). USDA- ReS: information by calling or sending a perceived "minimum commercially-
The New York Forest Owner 40:5 • September/October 2002 13 Managing ANew York Conifer Plantation Rattlesnake Hill Wildlife Management Area
MARK KEISTER AND HARRY DIETER WITH PHOTOS BY LLOYD DIETER
estern Finger Lake chapter different species of trees at that time (WFL) members toured an and a formula of poor growth and Win progress timber sale on overcrowding developed. Rattlesnake Hill to see reasons and Members saw clear cuts of red pine results of a mechanical harvest of which were removed due to poor health primarily red pine and Norway spruce. and slow growth. This will allow return NYSDEC forester Mark Keister was of native hardwoods and allow a the leader and informational specialist. desirable even aged stand to develop. The walk was hosted by Michael Aspen will likely be a component of the Kaminski Logging and NYSDEC. new stand of trees and this will benefit Hundreds of thousands of acres of old ruffed grouse. This was an important fields were planted on government lands consideration since this harvest was on in the 1930s by the Civilian a wildlife management area. Conservation Corps (CCC). Most of The Norway spruce stands were these plantations are now between 40-65 thinned approximately two rows out of years old. Unfortunately, after six to promote growth. The Norway planting, little was ever done to care for spruce needed more thinning for best these trees. Most were never thinned in growth but heavier thinning was western New York because there was withheld because of possible wind no market for small diameter softwoods blowdowns. Additional thinning is and no funds available to do pre- planned in 5-7 years when root systems commercial thinning. Combine this have expanded and stabilized. Photograph shows the thinning of a Norway with the reality that there was little As part of the timber contract, Spruce plantation. knowledge of soil requirements of approximately 4000 feet of access road were required to be built. Mark explained the requirements for the road including the use of geo-textile fabric to prevent sinking on the mostly clay soil. This road will be part of a loop hiking trail. Due to the excessive wetness from heavy rains all spring, the mechanical harvesting equipment was not working during the walk. Mark had photo's of
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The New York Forest Owner 40:5 • September/October 2002 15 Beetles That Da . we White Ash
DOUGLAS C. ALLEN
ite ash is an important (dense clumps of foliage as a result of omponent of many forest excessive branching) and eventual tree Wiypes in the northeastern death. The three insects discussed United States. Though it rarely occurs below do not kill the host nor does as the dominant species, ash adds to their activity result in obvious, easily forest diversity and enhances the value recognized symptoms like those of many of New York's northern associated with ash yellows. Their hardwood stands. The straight, close- cryptic habits are mainly why damage grained wood is light, strong and goes unnoticed until logs are processed resistant to shock. Second growth for wood products. trees are especially valuable, because Like most true bark beetles, the they have a large amount of sapwood eastern ash bark beetle breeds in relative to heartwood. The lumber is weakened, dying or recently felled valued for tool handles, cabinetry, trees. Adults are cylindrical, molding and other types of dimension approximately 0.1 of an inch long and stock. dark brown with a distinct pattern of Most forest owners have heard of whitish to gray scales on top of the "ash dieback" or "ash yellows," a wing covers (when a beetle is not complex disease that has caused flying, wing covers form the "back" of significant mortality of open-grown ash the insect). in the northeast. The symptoms of this Adults overwinter and emerge in disorder are easy to spot due to crown May and June. At this time, the Figure 1. Gallery pattern characteristic of dieback, appearance of witches-brooms female seeks a severely stressed host eastern ash bark beetle. The egg gallery (A) is 2.6" long. Larval galleries (B) are packed with frass.
or recently cut log where she chews through the bark and excavates an egg or brood gallery. This gallery appears as a wide, almost flattened, fork. It has two arms that are slightly curved and radiate from a small chamber. She deposits several eggs along both sides of this structure. When the eggs hatch, larvae create their own galleries as they feed. The gallery pattern is distinctly etched on the surface of the sapwood and in the inner bark; both arms of the egg gallery are always transverse (i.e., across the grain) and the larval galleries go with the grain, both above and below the egg-laying site (Fig. 1). This part of the life cycle does not damage or in any way Figure 2. Entrance hole to overwintering gallery (dark spot near base of pin). The corky decrease the value of lumber sawn outer bark that concealed it has been removed.
16 The New York Forest Owner 40:5· September/October 2002 rounded and distinctly reddish. Each wing cover is light to dark brown with four transverse yellow bands. The banded ash borer is equivalent in size but dark brown to black throughout. The first two yellow markings (i.e., those at the base of each wing cover) coalesce to form partial circles. Both attack freshly cut (unseasoned) logs left in the woods or stored in a wood yard. Unlike the eastern ash bark beetle (and the larval stages of most other longhorned beetles), larvae of these two species feed beneath the bark for only a short time (Fig. 5). Soon after feeding begins they enter the sapwood where they live and feed throughout much of their lives. This is in contrast to most longhorned beetles that excavate galleries in the wood solely for overwintering purposes and Figure 3. Exposed surface of sapwood Figure 4. Adult red-headed ash borer showing two dark stains associated with must return periodically to the inner (actual length is 0.4"). ash bark beetle overwintering tunnels. bark region to feed. Larval feeding within the log eventually results in a myriad of bark beetle's overwintering gallery is from infested logs or recent blow galleries throughout the wood, most of often hidden beneath a ridge of bark down. All evidence of the insect is which are tightly packed with frass (a (Fig. 2). Activity by the two wood eliminated with the slabs (the rounded mixture of wood fragments and borers does not become evident until sides of a log that are removed with the excrement) (Figs. 6 & 7). This damage after the damage is done and circular first cut made during processing). often results in the total loss of a log or emergence holes appear in the bark. The potential damage or degrade log pile, because both will produce Eastern ash bark beetle. When a occurs when beetles emerge and mostly defective lumber. northern hardwood stand containing prepare to overwinter by chewing Management of all three insects white or green ash is thinned, the ash through the bark of a living ash (Fig. requires, first of all, careful tops, branches and defective logs 2) and excavating a small tunnel or monitoring. In all three examples, should be reduced to as small a size as overwintering niche. This tunnel often damage is difficult to spot because is feasible to encourage rapid drying. penetrates to the surface of the there is little external evidence of The ash bark beetle breeds only in sapwood where it leaves a small stain activity. The entrance hole to the ash continued on page 18 (Fig. 3). When adults are abundant, the accumulation of these spots (which eventually will be overgrown and LAW FIRM incorporated into the wood) may EXPERIENCED IN ISSUES RELATING TO devalue lumber. TIMBER AND FORESTRY The red-headed ash borer and the Timber Contract Review TimberTrespassActions banded ash borer belong to a family Oil and GasLeaseReviews TimberlandSuccessionPlanning called roundheaded borers (a reference TimberTaxAdviceIncluding: to the shape of the larva's head) or longhorned beetles (an allusion to the Schedule T Preparation Depletion Allowance Calculations fact many adults in this group have Tax Free Exchanges long antennae). The adult red-headed Timberland Tax Certiorari Challenges ash borer (Fig. 4) is light brown, elongate, tapered slightly from front to Call David J. Colligan at rear and varies from 0.2 to .75 of an Watson, Bennett, Colligan, Johnson & Schechter, LLP inch long. The "head" is broadly Tel: (716) 852-3540 • Fax: (716) 852-3546 [email protected] wwwforestrylaw.com
The New York Forest Owner 40:5 • September/October 2002 17 Tired of. . . ~. ~ ~~eat;ng coq, -s Eliminate Them ~~ With the Classic ~.utdoor Wood Furnace "The Classic Outdoor Wood Furance is the BEST on the market." It delivers safe, clean, thermostatically controlled heat for your home, barn, business, workshop, garage, pool, greenhouse, plus more. eWorks with existing heating systems eProvides all domestic hot water. eNo indoor Figure 5. Early feeding by red-headed ash borer engraved on the surface of the sapwood smoke, dirt, (horizontal gallery is approximately 0.1 inches wide). carbon monoxide, or chimney fires. e UL & CSA listed fresh, moist bark. Heavy infestations lumber, ash that has been used e EPA tested are evidenced by numerous circular extensively for overwintering should Available in heavy gauge emergence holes approximately 0.04 of be harvested within five or ten years. steel and titanium an inch (1 mm) in diameter in bark of This is necessary to be reasonably enhanced stainless ash slash (logging residue) or by a certain the affected sapwood (i.e., large number of similar sized holes in peppered with numerous small stains) standing trees made by adults is removed in slabs and is not Locke, NY 13092 preparing to overwinter. If buyers in incorporated into that part of the tree Phone 315/497-1266 your region are concerned about spotty bole that will produce lumber. Ash borers. The most effective way to prevent damage by these longhorned beetles is to utilize logs within a few weeks of harvesting or to harvest and utilize logs sometime between fall and late winter. When it is necessary to maintain an inventory for extended periods during the growing season, continuously spraying logs with water will discourage attack. This will not be totally effective when log piles are large, however, because the beetles favor shaded or hidden areas that may be impossible to reach with this type of treatment. If a mill is able to debark logs, this will prevent the problem completely .•.
This is the 64th in the series of articles contrib- uted by Dr. Allen, Professor of Entomology at SUNY-ESF. It is possible to download this collection from the NYS DEe Web page at: Figure 7. Ash (3.6" diam.) riddled with Figure 6. A piece of ash dimension stock http://www.dec.state.ny.us/website!dlf/privland/ (2.0" diam.) damaged by the red-headed forprot/health/nyfo/index. html. frass-packed (A) and clean red-headed ash ash borer. One gallery (A) is clean, the borer galleries. others (B) are packed with frass.
18 The FLTC Tax Report News from the Forest Landowners Tax Council SAF Certified efollowing, from the Forest measure failed to get the 60 votes need Landowners Tax Council, for passage and Senate Majority Leader ms an update on current federal Tom Daschle (D-SD) says that no other MICHAEL C. GREASON tax events and legislation affecting tax legislation will be considered on the FORES1'RY SERVICES non-industrial private forest Senate floor this year. But, FLTC landowners. would certainly like to see the matter The Death Tax and IRe Section readdressed after October 1 this year (518) 943-9230 631 (b): To amend the Internal Revenue when it will only take 51 votes to pass, 5476 Cauterskill Road [email protected] Catskill, NY 12414 Code of 1986, the U.S. House of because of the Senate's rules on Representatives has passed the Tax budgetary considerations. Relief Guarantee Act of 2002 (H.R. Finally, FLTC asks readers to 586) to make permanent the tax contact Senators who serve on the reductions enacted by the Economic Finance Committee and ask them to Growth and Tax Relief Reconciliation co-sponsor S. 567, the Timber Tax Act of 2001 (H.R. 8) and to protect Simplification Act of 2002 (it's the taxpayers and ensure accountability of same bill as H.R. 1341 mentioned Lake George the Internal Revenue Service. This bill's above, which allows capital gains provisions for permanency included treatment on lump-sum sales). We language to over-ride the 200l-passed, are particularly interested in co- Forestry phase-out of the death tax in order to sponsorship by Senators Max Baucus Complete Forestry Services make it permanent (You may recall that (D-MT), John Breaux (D-LA), Bob including: last year's H.R. 8 is only a 10-year Graham (D-FL), Blanche Lincoln (D- • Detailed Management phase-out of the death tax, which will AR), Don Nickles (R-OK), Frank Plans return in full force in the eleventh year). Murkowski (R-AK), Phil Gramm (R- • Timber Trespass Interestingly, and subsequent to their TX), Fred Thompson (R-TN), and • Timber Sales H.R. 586-vote, the House also passed Olympia Snowe (R-ME). Senator • Appraisals H.R. 2143, which does exactly the same Trent Lott (R-MS) is already a co- • Deed Research thing - it makes the repeal of the death sponsor. To help you can call the • Timber Inventory tax permanent. We think our Senate switchboard (202-224-3121) or • Watershed Management Congressmen are serious about visit ''http://congress.org/'' for • Boundary Line Location immediate and permanent elimination of contact information for your Senators. • Tax Savings Plans this 55% penalty for dying! In addition, To learn more about S. 567, call No property is too small or too large to FLTC was pleased that, when H.R. 586 FLTC at 703-549-0747 or go to benefitfrom experienced professional as- passed, it included the stipulations of "www.fltc.org" and click the 'Hot sistance when you are faced with im- the Timber Tax Simplification Act of Issue' button ..• portant decisions regarding its use. 2001 (H.R. 1341), which modifies Internal Revenue Code Section 631 (b) The Forest Landowners Tax Council is an Contact Lake George Forestry today to to allow capital gains treatment on independent non-profit organization arrange a free initial consultation. income from lump-sum timber sales for dedicated to providing an effective and unified voice for non-industrial, private Christian Gearwear, President most non-industrial, private forest forest landowners on federal tax issues. LAKE GEORGE landowners. Membership is open nationwide. Visit their Your delegates to the U.S. House website at www.FLTC.org, or contact them FORESTRY, INC. should be congratulated. However, our at e-mail: Director.FLTC.org, tel: 703- 50 Hendrick Street struggle continues on the Senate side. 549-0747, fax: 703-549-1579. Lake George, New York 12845 Recently, many individuals helped Phone/Fax: 518-668-2623 recruit U.S. Senate votes to pass the Gramm / Kyl Amendment to make the death tax permanent. However, the
The New York Forest Owner 40:5 • September/October 2002 19 Developing a Woodlot Stewardship Management Plan
PETER J. SMALLIDGE
he planning that you do for your an active participant or proof of the through your local county extension woodlot or forest is not a difficult intention of an activity, a management office as #147-IB-193. People who can Tprocess and provides numerous plan can document the role of the help include a corps of trained forest benefits for woodlot owners. If you have landowner in the management process or owning volunteers, the Master Forest planned a vacation or planned a wedding, the intent of certain activities. Examples Owners, who you can reach through your then you are capable of the planning include fencing to exclude deer from local Cooperative Extension office or at necessary to get the most from your regenerating areas, and thus allow the the MFO web site http:// woodlot. landowner to enjoy certain tax provisions www.dnr.cornell.edu/ext/rnfo. The NYS The planning process will involve not otherwise possible. Department of Environmental some thinking on your part, discussions A typical management plan has four Conservation has a program called with your spouse, children, or co- sections. The first section is a statement "public service foresters" who will visit owners, collection of resource materials, of the landowner objectives. It's your property and prepare a stewardship and working with a forester for technical important that these are the objectives of management plan with you free of and professional assistance. These are the landowner and not the objectives of charge. Also, you can contact a easy but necessary steps; the good news the forester helping the landowner. The consulting forester or an industrial is that much of this can be accomplished second section describes the property. forester for assistance with a plan, for free or with minimal expense. The This would include: a legal property though they may charge a fee or expect expenses you do incur may be tax description; an assessment of the some future relationship for their deductible depending on your situation condition of the different areas or services. and will be offset by gains in the management units for timber, wildlife, These web sites and others for maps, efficiency of management and the recreation, or other uses; aerial photos, and web-based private benefits you receive from your property. characterizations of the soils, especially landowner resources are provided as The starting point for a management any limitations of use such as poorly links from the Cornell University plan is for you to identify your drained or stony soils. The third section Forestry Extension web page ownership objectives. These objectives would be a work plan or calendar of www.dor.comell.edu/ext/forestrypage. describe what you want to get from your scheduled events. You'll likely want a Once you have your plan, use it to property, either the material goods such fairly detailed plan for the current and your full advantage. Use the schedule of as timber or the opportunity for next year, but then more general targets activities to plan the yearly events, experiences such as privacy, recreation, for the following 5 and 10 year time perhaps when children are home for the or hunting. Maybe all these and more. A frame. Each year you can check the tasks summer or in-laws come to visit. Use the good starting point is to ask yourself a completed and revise the current year description of the different management few questions: Why do you own the plan. Part of the schedule might include units to think about places to put hiking property? What do you like? What do the tools, equipment, or resources you'll trails, picnic areas, or potential bird you dislike? What do you need (or want) need to complete some task. The fourth watching locations. Take the advice of in 5, 10, or 20 years? When you discuss and final section is an appendix that your carefully chosen forester to help the answers to these questions with your includes any number of things from you evaluate offers from someone who spouse or others, you will be able to maps, to historic records, aerial shows up at your door and wants to buy identify what you want to accomplish. A photographs, old pictures, list of trees or your timber - if your plan doesn't call forester can help you evaluate your birds seen on the property, etc. for a timber sale then you're likely better objectives and whether they are You have likely recognized that the off to let the offer pass. compatible with the resources on your planning process will be easiest with A management plan is a useful tool that property. some outside assistance. Fortunately, will serve you for years to come. It's a A plan for your woodlot provides there are numerous tools, people, and critical starting point for the long-term benefits that are aesthetic, economic and organizations you can access. One useful stewardship of your wooded acreage. logistical in nature. A plan allows tool is a computer software program Additional details are available in the landowners to integrate seemingly called "NED" that is available for free Cornell Cooperative Extension bulletin complicated objectives such as timber from the US Forest Service web site #147-IB-193. For more assistance contact harvesting, habitat enhancement for www.fs.fed.us/ne/burlington or by phone the nearest DEC or CCE office. 4. specific wildlife species, and recreational at (802) 951 - 6771. NED helps you trails. Planning ensures that management visualize the relationship among your activities move towards and include the objectives. Another tool is the Cornell Peter 1. Smallidge is the State Extension landowner's objectives and provide the Cooperative Extension bulletin, "Wildlife Forester at Cornell University and Cornell Cooperative Extension, Department of Natural optimal variety of desired benefits. For and Timber from Private Lands: A Resources. He is also a member of the SFL landowners who seek IRS recognition as landowner's guide to planning," available chapter of NYFOA.
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