forest taxes: UWSP Students Enjoy a Tour of Menomonie White Pine Forest
- 05/30/14 03:04 AM
UWSP Students Enjoy a Tour of Menomonie White Pine Forest
“Start with the rising sun and work toward the setting
sun, but take only the mature trees, the sick trees, and the trees that have fallen. When you reach the end of the reservation, turn and cut from the setting sun to the rising sun and the trees will last forever”.
Chief Oshkosh, an important
Menominee Chief
Just over twenty future foresters from the University of Wisconsin at Stevens Point along with a Forester from Woodland Management Service had the honor of receiving a personal tour of the Menomonie Tribal … (5 comments)
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forest taxes: How Much Do You Save When You Do It Yourself? (Negative $492,600)
- 05/28/14 04:14 PM
How Much Do You Save When You Do It Yourself? (Negative $492,600)
Unfortunately the people who need to make the most money from their forest are generally the first people to take a small shortcut that will damage their forest and their bank account.
Countless examples have proven to us and our clients that it pays many times over to hire a Forester to manage your timber sale.
It really does pay big money to hire a forester.
I recently had a man call me and ask for some advice in selling his timber.
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forest taxes: Lucy's Kissing Booth, Left in the Forest?
- 05/28/14 04:56 AM
Lucy's Kissing Booth, Left in the Forest?
I am accustomed to finding odd things in the forest, often in a place where you feel so remote that humans seldom venture much less leave things behind.
Sometimes it is as simple as an abandoned farmstead or a forgotten maple syrup bucket grown into a tree, and one time while doing a forest inventory in New Mexico I found a Model T car far up in the mountains with trees growing through it.
Today's find was not too dramatic but it did cause … (12 comments)
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forest taxes: Throwback Thursday, a Forest Begins
- 05/22/14 02:16 PM
Throwback Thursday, a Forest Begins
Thank you to Kerrie for initiating Throwback Thursdays here on Active Rain, it is prompting me to dig for old pictures. Unfortunately I have not been nearly as effective at archiving photos as I would would like to have been.
These photos take me back a little over twenty years ago on a day when some old friends Marv and Mary Bloedow came over for a visit and toured our recently planted forest.
The kids were young, Josh was 5, Amy was 3, Nick was just 2, and so were the trees that are hiding in … (17 comments)
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forest taxes: Another busy week in Wisconsin Forestry
- 05/12/14 01:28 PM
Another busy week in Wisconsin Forestry.
Today was a great day to be in the woods, the sun was shining, the snow is gone, and a few of us Woodland Management Service Foresters are on a mission to sign up as many new clients this month as we can before summer gets here and the leaves get in the way.
I like signing up clients, it is an opportunity to meet new people and educate them on what makes their forest work well. And if all works out well, it is the beginning of our mission to improve their forest … (11 comments)
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forest taxes: Chippewa Valley Woodland Owners Held Spring Forestry Field Day Today
- 05/10/14 08:12 AM
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forest taxes: I am going to enjoy working for this family.
- 05/09/14 05:03 PM
I am going to enjoy working for this family.
I have been traveling around with Nick a bit this week and spending more time in cabins visiting with clients than in the woods so far.
Today was an opportunity to meet with another very interesting old fellow with an amazingly similar background to mine or at least my background before I went to college.
While Nick worked out in his woods Roger and I spent hours sitting in his living room discussing life, family, backwoods farms, hunting, trapping, and outdoor skills.
Then he introduced me to a few more … (8 comments)
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forest taxes: Chippewa Valley Woodland Owners hosting Spring Forestry Field Day
- 05/08/14 04:19 PM
Chippewa Valley Woodland Owners hosting Spring Forestry Field Day
Stop by this Saturday May 10, 2014 to learn a little more about the potential of your land and see what these area landowners have been doing with theirs.
Tour hosts, Bill & Peg Connelly will showcase their woodland/wildlife areas including
Regrowth from a previous timber harvest Native and planted pine Food plots Established prairie Tamarack swamp Patches of oak wilt Red pine pocket decline And FireWise.
While you are there, introduce yourself to Nick Crane, wish him a happy birthday and see what he can do to … (1 comments)
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forest taxes: Happy Birthday, working in the Forests of Jackson County Wisconsin
- 05/08/14 12:30 PM
Happy Birthday, working in the Forests of Jackson County Wisconsin
We started the second day of our working with Nick trip today with a Birthday Breakfast at Perkins where Nick ate a supersize breakfast that would last all day, and was treated to a free piece of Strawberry French Silk pie.
Then it was off to a busy day of hiking through the extreme hills of Western Wisconsin known as Coulees.
We saw lots of trees as usual as well as a dozen deer and one large snapping turtle, all very close up.
The trees and the snapper stood still to … (10 comments)
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forest taxes: Enjoyable Afternoon in Sherwood Forest.
- 05/07/14 03:26 PM
Enjoyable Afternoon in Sherwood Forest.
Today I got away from the office for a while and went out to the woods with Nick while he was working in Clark County’s Sherwood Township.
Our first stop of the afternoon was at the 80 acre Oak and Maple forest owned by a retired school administrator from Oshkosh.
The landowner and I had a very enjoyable visit while Nick collected some data from his forest and a crew of carpenters built a new and very fancy porch on his log cabin.
When finished with our visit and tour of this property, Nick … (12 comments)
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forest taxes: Watch Your Boundaries, Stolen Trees are Expensive Trees
- 05/05/14 02:27 PM
Watch Your Boundaries, Stolen Trees are Expensive Trees I posted this a year ago, came across it again tonight and thought that the message was important enough to require a repeat.
This past week my son Nick who recently earned his Forestry degree conducted what we refer to as a Timber Trespass Appraisal.
A Timber Trespass Appraisal, is basically an appraisal of the remaining stumps after somebody trespasses on your land and cuts your trees.
After measuring and recording the condition of the stumps we then go out in the remaining forest and measure comparable trees that come close in … (43 comments)
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forest taxes: Million Dollars Thrown Away Through Neglect of 270 Acres
- 05/02/14 10:56 AM
Million Dollars Thrown Away Through Neglect of 270 Acres
A friend recently introduced me to a friend of his who owns a half section (320 acres) in Western Wisconsin.
Both of these fellows seemed proud of the fact that in the 55 years that he owned this property he had been preserving the forest, never cutting anything and certain that it must be worth a fortune by now.
Then I had do my job and burst their bubble, and pull out my handy spreadsheet.
Just like a rental home that is ignored for 50 years, not only will you lose out … (28 comments)
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forest taxes: Earth Week 2014 ends with Words of Wisdom & a little bit of Spring
- 04/26/14 04:46 PM
Earth Week 2014 ends with Words of Wisdom and a little bit of Spring
Ending this years Earth Week with a quote and a story from this day 1 year ago.
The great French Marshall Lyautey once asked his gardener to plant a tree. The gardener objected that the tree was slow growing and would not reach maturity for 100 years. The Marshall replied, 'In that case, there is no time to lose; plant it this afternoon!'
John F. Kennedy
I always enjoy this quote from JFK, and I printed it of years ago, framed it and stuck … (5 comments)
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forest taxes: Go Out and Plant some Trees This Weekend
- 04/25/14 04:57 PM
Go Out and Plant some Trees This Weekend I am heading out to do some work in the woods early in the morning for a busy day, unfortunately it is a little early for planting here, but we do have a few projects in the plans.
It has been great fun encouraging people to plant a few trees during this important week known as Earth Week.
I hope that a few of you took my advice in the first blog of this series and bought your clients an enduring gift that will last a lifetime for a mere $3.00
Hopefully … (8 comments)
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forest taxes: Earth Week, Planting a Yard Tree with a Root Ball
- 04/25/14 09:10 AM
Earth Week, Planting a Yard Tree with a Root Ball
This week in honor of Earth Week I will be posting four blogs on Tree Planting this first one is of a hand planter planting forest trees in a production setting, the second one will be another production crew planting in a field with a tree planting machine, the third will be how to hand plant a bare root seedling, and the fourth will be how we plant individual trees in town or a yard.
This fourth type of planting is the most accepted method for those who … (8 comments)
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forest taxes: Earth Week, Investing in, & Profiting from, Sustainable Forestry
- 04/24/14 03:26 PM
Earth Week, Investing in, and Profiting from, Sustainable Forestry Many think that we do our best for the environment when we ignore it, stop cutting trees and use alternative building products and digital paper.
But that is seldom the case since an ignored and unprofitable garden generally gets plowed up and used for something else.
Everytime that we see periods when forest products are low, people start bulldozing their trees and planting subdivisions and cornfields.
Fortunately when forest products are profitable, a few of those fields get planted to trees, where they will eventually become a forest again.
I found this … (9 comments)
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forest taxes: Land News in Your Part of the Country?
- 04/20/14 04:48 PM
Land News in Your Part of the Country?
At Woodland Management Service we specialize in Inventory, Appraisal, and Management of Forestland properties and spend much of our time working with corporate landowners and investment groups who want to continually improve the many attributes of their land including Timber, Wildlife, Recreation, and Water.
We work throughout the country on large projects with a specialty in vast inventory and appraisal projects.
If you hear rumors of any projects coming up in this area please let me know.
Some of the things that we would like to hear about … (6 comments)
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forest taxes: Rusk County Wisconsin, Vast Forests and Trophy Wildlife
- 04/20/14 04:36 PM
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Rusk County Wisconsin, Vast Forests and Trophy Wildlife
Rusk County is one of my personal favorite areas of Wisconsin.
Our clients at Woodland Management Service not only own a lot of forest land in this county, they are also quite happy with the bountiful wildlife here.
Rusk County is home to more than 430 thousand acres of forest land, more than 75 percent of which is private land with the remaining 100 thousand acres being primarily on the County Forest and the Flambeau State Forest.
Most of … (2 comments)
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forest taxes: Clark County Wisconsin, High Quality Forest Land and Wildlife
- 04/20/14 02:46 PM
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Clark County Wisconsin, High Quality Forest Land and Wildlife
Clark County Wisconsin includes a great mix of High quality forests and dairy farms which provide great habitat for many wildlife species, especially Whitetail Deer.
This County is also located in a unique place for Woodland Management Service, in that it is half way between our main two offices in Cadott and Stevens Point and most of the work that we do here is coordinated by our Wildlife Specialist Jesse Kulesa and one of our lead Foresters Nick Crane.
Our … (1 comments)
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forest taxes: I Get A Boost Working With My Competitors To Improve The Profession.
- 04/10/14 04:54 PM
I Get A Boost Working With My Competitors To Improve The Profession.
Today Nick and I took a drive up to Tomahawk to visit with some of our competitors at the Wisconsin chapter of the Association of Consulting Foresters annual planning meeting.
It was a great meeting, renewing and growing friendships while exploring ways to train and improve ourselves and our profession.
It is nice as I grow older and realize how important it is to work with my competition so that we can all become better, knowing that the real competition is not with each other, but rather … (9 comments)
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UWSP Students Enjoy a Tour of Menomonie White Pine Forest
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