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FOREST MANAGEMENT Services

A complete overview of our forestry and natural resource services

What is Sustainable & Comprehensive Forest Management?

Our forest management plans and practices incorporate sustainable management practices to meet your goals and objectives for your property. Our focus is on the simultaneous management of both commercial timber production as well as the creation and enhancement of wildlife habitats.

All recommended management practices are based on proven science and are only applied if they meet the following criteria: 1) ecologically and environmentally sound and will do no harm to the sustainability of the natural resource, 2) fits the landowner’s goals and objectives, and 3) is realistically able to be accomplished given the landowner’s constraints.

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What We Offer

FOREST CARBON CONSULTING

Sell Carbon Credits

Offering forest carbon consulting to advise landowners in the available forest carbon programs offered in their area.

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FOREST IMPROVEMENT PRACTICES

These practices include non-timber harvesting methods to improve the quality of your woods, including: herbicide application, edge feathering, & other non-harvest practices.

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FOREST INVENTORY & VALUATION

Appraisal

Heritage Habitat can inventory your property's timber, break it down by species composition, diameters, merchantable height, etc. & estimate a fair market value for your timber.

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FOREST CARBON CONSULTING

Sell Carbon Credits

We are the region's premier forest carbon consultants, with over 100 projects under our belt!

Offering forest carbon consulting to advise landowners in the available forest carbon programs offered in their area.

Landowner Carbon Programs

FOREST IMPROVEMENT PRACTICES

These practices include non-timber harvesting methods to improve the quality of your woods, including: herbicide application, edge feathering, & other non-harvest practices.

TIMBER INVENTORY & VALUATION

Appraisal

Our timber valuations will be statistically significant in order to provide you an accurate valuation as well as present-time data needed for a timber tax basis.

Inventory your property's timber, break it down by species composition, diameters, merchantable height, etc. & estimate a fair market value for your timber.

FOREST MANAGEMENT PLANS

Save Tax Dollars

Several states offer landowners a substantial tax benefit by having an approved forest management plan in place. Our plans qualify for Ohio's CAUV & OFTL tax programs, West Virginia's Managed Timberlands Program, & NRCS EQIP CAP106!

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Ohio Forest Tax Programs

West Virginia Forest Tax Programs

NRCS EQIP Federal Cost-share Programs

MAPPING SOLUTIONS

Using today's advanced mapping programs, including Geographic Information Systems (GIS), we can create comprehensive maps to meet your goals.

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PROJECT OVERSIGHT

We can prepare, bid, and monitor forestry and natural resource contracts conducted on your land. Herbicide work, chainsaw treatments, etc. can be bid across our qualified vendor lists, offers prepared and presented to landowner, and contract execution and monitoring all provided at an hourly rate.

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FOREST MANAGEMENT PLANS

Save Tax Dollars

Our forest management plans are unique in that we offer management techniques to improve both wildlife habitat and timber quality simultaneously.

Several states offer landowners a substantial tax benefit by having an approved forest management plan in place.

Our plans qualify for Ohio's CAUV & OFTL tax programs, West Virginia's Managed Timberlands Program, & NRCS EQIP CAP106!

Sample Forest Management Plan

Ohio Forest Tax Programs

West Virginia Forest Tax Programs

NRCS EQIP Federal Cost-share Programs

GEOSPATIAL & MAPPING SOLUTIONS

Using today's advanced mapping programs, including Geographic Information Systems (GIS), we can create comprehensive maps to meet your goals.

PROJECT PLANNING & OVERSIGHT

We can prepare, bid, and monitor forestry and natural resource contracts conducted on your land.

Herbicide work, chainsaw treatments, etc. can be bid across our qualified vendor lists, offers prepared and presented to landowner, and contract execution and monitoring all provided at an hourly rate.

PROPERTY EVALUATIONS

Realtor Favorite

Interested in a 3rd-party opinion on a property you may be interested in purchasing? This service includes a personal walk-through of your property, with a 1- to 2-page report detailing timber & wildlife habitat potential based on the walk-through.

TIMBER SALE ADMINISTRATION

Sustainably Planned Harvests

Our timber sales are marked in accordance with long-term forest health and sustainability.

Interested in selling timber? We can administer your sale from beginning to end. Our administration includes marking every tree to be cut, advertising the sale, & monitoring to ensure sedimentation & erosion law compliance.