Make Your 10-Year Management Plan

Start Your Sound Management with a 10-Year Management Plan

• What do you want? Define your objectives. Describe your short- and long-term goals.
• What does your land look like? Describe the characteristics of your property: Do you have any maps of the property? What land or water features does it have? Are there roads or fences? What are the particular zoning requirements and history of uses?
• What's on the land? Describe resources and how you might use them: Do you see timber trees or wildlife habitat? Are there any historic features or bodies of water?
• How will you manage what you have to accomplish what you want? Outline basic steps to accomplish your short- and long-term goals.

Identify Your Management Needs and Opportunities

• Identify elements to develop and nurture.
• Identify untapped assets and resources.
• Identify pests (Southern pine beetle, etc.).
• Identify plant diseases (rusts, cankers, root rots, etc.).
• Identify invasive non-native species (kudzu, melaleuca, etc.).
• Identify hydrology issues (maintaining clean water and watershed).
• Identify fire-fuel brush and old timber for removal.
• Identify ongoing revenue opportunities.

Identify Your Management Options

• Prescribed fire and conservation
• Harvesting and reforestation
• Best Management Practices
• State and federal cost-share incentive programs
• Tax incentives