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<span style="font-size:10pt">Welcome to the Forest Matters Stewardship News. In this edition we highlight the <strong>Call Before You Cut</strong> program in six States, offer tax tips for forest landowners for the 2012 tax year, highlight the importance of pollinators in forest management, and even describe some of the slimy mushrooms that may be growing in your woods. <br>
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<p style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px">The Call Before You Cut (CBYC) Program was one of the first Redesign projects awarded in fiscal year 2008. It is a multistate project that demonstrates the effectiveness of talking to landowners at those pivotal times when they would be making sudden, uninformed decisions about their woodlands before potential negative impacts happen to their forest resources. CBYC is a simple, highly effective process that promotes the importance of forests and ensures that landowners discuss forest management with professionals before they hire someone to harvest their woodlands.</p>
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<p style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px"><span>June 7, 2012 (MNN) - Here are some interesting numbers: of the 747 million acres of wooded land in the United States, more than 250 million acres are owned by private individuals and families. Across the country, 11 million families and individuals own forests and wooded areas that are vital to our clean air, clean water, and wildlife. Of those 11 million, about 4.5 million families and individuals each own 10 or more acres of woodland. And yet, only 4 percent have a management plan in place for their woodlands. According to the American Forest Foundation (AFF), the lack of management plans puts these treasured properties at ever-increasing risk of fires, invasive species, pathogens, and other problems.</span></p>
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<p style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px"><span>To help woodland owners better understand and protect their properties, the AFF has launched a new Web site, </span><a style="color:rgb(0,0,255);text-decoration:underline" href="http://r20.rs6.net/tn.jsp?t=nbehsrlab.0.kue9nwlab.d49wpleab.0&ts=S0865&p=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.MyLandPlan.org" shape="rect" target="_blank">MyLandPlan.org</a><span>, which can help family forest owners map, protect, and enjoy their woods for years to come. The free Web site "helps you discover the possible threats to your land," says Tom Martin, president and CEO of AFF. "If you own a plot of land, it helps you ask the right questions based on your goals for your land and refers you to the right sources." </span></p>
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>From September 25-27, 2012, U.S. Forest Service Forest Stewardship Program Managers from 42 States and U.S. Territories joined Program Managers from the Forest Service headquarters in Washington, DC, and Regional Offices for a National Program Managers' Meeting. That gathering was held at the National Arbor Day Foundation's Lied Conference Center in Nebraska; the last national Forest Stewardship Program meeting took place 5 years ago in Albuquerque, NM. The 3-day meeting focused primarily on the newly adopted national program strategy, FSPTwenty20, and how the program can use it to effectively help carry out State Forest Action Plans.</p>
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September 30 marked the end of Federal Fiscal Year (FY) 2012, and the Northeastern Area States' accomplishments in the Forest Stewardship Program have been reported and compiled. We are pleased to report that in the region served by the Northeastern Area State and Private Forestry, the Forest Stewardship Program's most significant metric has surpassed the 4-million-acre mark! <strong>More than 4 million acres within Important Forest Areas (State priority landscapes) in the Northeastern Area are being managed sustainably with a current Forest Stewardship Plan. </strong> More than 10 million acres (all private lands - priority and nonpriority lands) in this region have a current Forest Stewardship Plan.</p>
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<p style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px"><span style="font-size:10pt"><img height="142" vspace="10" name="13c264518ea8f28a_ACCOUNT.IMAGE.370" border="0" hspace="10" width="191" align="right"> Since I started working as a </span><span style="font-size:10pt">forestry consultant in Massachusetts in 1975, I have always searched for innovative forest management ideas and opportunities that might stimulate my clients and keep them more connected with their woodlands. Early in my consulting career, one of the first things I recognized was that although timber harvesting was the primary focus and income source for most consulting foresters, the actual duration of time when timber harvesting is physically taking place on any given property was very small and often amounted to only a few weeks or months in the lifetime of an average woodland owner. I thought there might be some other income opportunities, but just hadn't thought about it that much.</span></p>
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<p style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px"><span>The Wells National Estuarine Research Reserve (WNERR) in coastal Maine houses the Yankee Woodlot</span><span>-a demonstration forest for woodland owners and others interested in forest stewardship. </span><span>One of the goals in the Forest Habitat Management Plan at the WNERR is "re-establishing the Yankee Woodlot Demonstration site, a 34-acre patch of forest, as a visual demonstration of small woodlot management practices that both provide income from forest products and enhance wildlife and water resources." </span></p>
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</p><p style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;font-family:Georgia,'Times New Roman',Times,serif">Situated midway between Baltimore and Philadelphia along the western side of the Susquehanna River lies a 1,700-acre parcel of woodland owned and operated by the Baltimore Area Council of the Boy Scouts of America (BSA). Broad Creek Memorial Scout Reservation is one of the largest tracts of nonindustrial private forest land in central Maryland. For more than 100 years, the Boy Scouts of America has prided itself in being a conservation-minded organization, and the staff and volunteers at Broad Creek are true leaders in conservation. They are active stewards, protecting and conserving the Scout camp property for future generations. </p>
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<p style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;font-size:10pt">Neal Bungard, Forest Legacy Program Specialist, U.S. Forest Service, Northeastern Area State and Private Forestry, D<span style="font-size:10pt">urham, NH</span></p>
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