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.
What We Offer
FOREST CARBON CONSULTING
Offering forest carbon consulting to advise landowners in the available forest carbon programs offered in their area.
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.
FOREST INVENTORY & VALUATION
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.
Absentee Property Oversight
Are you an absentee landowner that needs a property caretaker?
Absentee Property Oversight service is quite simply the oversight of absentee (or otherwise, unavailable) landowner’s properties. This service provides those landowners with piece of mind, knowing their property is being monitored and not neglected. This services includes establishing boundaries, marking boundaries, monthly property visits and emailed reports to landowner, mitigating and monitoring trespassing, storm damage analysis, and more.
Drones, Geospatial, & Remote Sensing
Leverage our geospatial and mapping expertise!
Drones, Geospatial, & Remote Sensing services include analyzing of mapping data to serve your needs. This service can be customized with a multitude of deliverables, as we utilize ArcGIS Pro, ArcGIS Online, and other products to provide clients with remote sensing services.
Forestland Acquisition Services & Valuation
We can develop a timber valuation, useful for tax basis purposes.
Forestland Acquisition Services & Valuation service entails those necessary tasks related to purchasing and/or selling forestland. This service provides those Clients with information such as timber tax basis and timber appraisals. The inventory work is estimated at 95% confidence interval within a 10% standard error.
Forest Carbon Credit Sale Administration
Over 300 consults and counting!
We can advise in determining whether or not your forest may be a good fit for a forest carbon program, given your ownership strategy, land management goals, and current forest condition. Enrolling in a program that has its own set of harvesting restrictions may affect the way you manage your forest. We can actively consult you through a variety of programs, define confusing terminology and concepts, and streamline the assessment process.
Forest Carbon Inventory, Audit, & Verification
Assistance with servicing carbon project development.
With over 9 years’ experience in forest carbon project inventories, Heritage can assist your developer in establishing permanent sample plots, remeasurement inventories, audits, and verification assistance. Our field expertise of hundreds, if not thousands, of inventory plots conducted over varoius state bring a level of experience and quality to our work.
Forestland Operations Management
Our team of forest experts can assist in long-term forest management and planning.
A retainer-based service encompassing a wide variety of forestland management practices & consulting offerings. Retainer fee may be tax-deductible. Deliverables are highly customizable.
Forest Management Plans
Our most popular service!
Heritage Habitat offers state-approved forest management plans that qualify landowners for tax benefits. Explore federal and state forest landowner programs, including Ohio's Forest Tax Law and Current Agricultural Use Value, and West Virginia's Managed Timberland Program and Stewardship Program. Plans are geared towards the landowner’s goals, along with the level of detail the landowner desires.
Hunting Lease Operations & Management
Earn income from leasing hunting rights on your property.
Management of selling and coordinating hunting leases on your property, including supervising hunting groups, ensuring insurance requirement carried by lessees, and other lease management services.
Professional Consulting Services
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.
Property Evaluation
Interested in a 3rd-party opinion on a property you may be interested in purchasing?
Engage in an informed decision-making process by seeking a comprehensive 3rd-party assessment for a property under consideration for purchase. Our specialized service entails a meticulous onsite walk-through, culminating in a detailed 1- to 2-page report. This document serves to provide a nuanced analysis of both timber and wildlife habitat potential identified during the property assessment.
Project Planning & Oversight
Planning and oversight of contracted work on your property.
We can prepare, bid, and monitor forestry and natural resource contracts conducted on your land. Herbicide work, chainsaw treatments, etc., can be bid on across our qualified vendor lists, offers prepared and presented to landowner, and contract execution and monitoring all provided at an hourly rate.
Timber Sale Administration
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. When you hire Heritage Habitat & Forestry to administer your timber sale, you can rest assured knowing that we place the upmost value on sustainable forestry.
FOREST MANAGEMENT PLANS
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!
MAPPING SOLUTIONS
Using today's advanced mapping programs, including Geographic Information Systems (GIS), we can create comprehensive maps to meet your goals.
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.
Interested in any of these services?
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Schedule a call with Anthony to discuss the various state and federal programs available to you!
Sample Forest Management Plan
PROPERTY EVALUATIONS
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
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.
Interested in any of these services?
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Interested in buying or selling property? Looking for a hunt lease or to lease your own land? Contact us to get in touch with qualified agents and providers.
