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A Forest Stewardship Plan is essential to fully appreciating, understanding, and utilizing your woodland property. For the first time landowner, our plans are invaluable educational documents explaining the existing resource, how to care for the land, and the land-use and income potential of the property. For the seasoned landowner, our plans can unlock the investment and ecological potential of a property. For a family, a stewardship plan can provide generations of enjoyment and rewards from land ownership.

The Living Forest Cooperative writes basic or comprehensive stewardship plans tailored to the objectives and desires of the individual landowner. Our plans evaluate the landowner's property from an ecological perspective and include detailed analysis and planning for the timber resource, bio diversity, ecosystem health, and aesthetic beauty.

Our plans meet the highest standards of sustainable forestry as set by the Forest Stewardship Council (FSC), and qualifies a property for FSC Certification and government assistance programs. Our staff has a multi-disciplinary education in forestry, ecology, and wildlife ecology ensuring that our plans consider all the attributes of a forest, not just timber production.

Our management plans vary in cost, depending upon the property and the landowner's needs. Generally, our plans cost about $13/acre (lower on larger properties) with an $800 minimum. Cost-sharing is available through the Wisconsin Forest Landowners Grant Program (WFLGP). Our plans include three sections Regional Landscape Description, Landowner Property Description, Stand Specific Management Prescription. See an example of a FSC-Certified Forest Stewardship Plan (pdf format).In addition, each plan has an appendix with, Geographic Information System Maps (GIS Maps)and property specific information sheets covering things like invasive plants, tree disease, insects, endangered species, ect.