Foresters can help ensure positive results
Selling timber is a once in a lifetime activity for most landowners. No single activity has such power to significantly improve—or degrade—your forest. Proper harvesting can provide income, improve wildlife habitat, and result in trails, better access, views, and healthy and vigorous forests. Uncontrolled exploitive cutting can reduce these values leading to environmental degradation, public resentment and legal entanglements.
Do your homework and follow sound principles to ensure a successful timber sale:
- Practice forestry
- Use a written contract
- Hire a licensed forester.
Video about a carefully considered timber harvest
By watching, you can learn how to have a carefully considered harvest on your own land that follows sound principles and meets your goals.
The following fact sheets should help:
An Overview
Use Professionals
- Lists of licensed forester
- Selecting a Forester
- Foresters can help insure positive results. They use a special "sign language" to mark trees to direct the logger to cut and leave certain trees. Click here to view pictures and descriptions of marked trees and here to see five indicators of a good harvest.
Use a written contract
- The Timber Sale Contract describes the key elements of a contract and also includes sample clauses and explanations of their meanings. This version contains sample contract language only.
Follow the Laws
- Guide to New Hampshire Timber Harvesting Laws
- Best Management Practices for Erosion Control on Harvesting Operations in NH
- Best Management Practices for Forestry: Protecting NH's Water Quality (downloadable document)
Know about Taxes
Practice Forestry
Good Forestry in the Granite State
This guide provides landowners and the professionals who work with them practical recommendations and information on a wide variety of forest resources.
Timber Harvesting and Silviculture
Selling timber is a once in a lifetime activity for most landowners. No single activity has such power to improve- or degrade- the forest.
Articles
Events
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October 9, 2024, 8 a.m. - 3:30 p.m.
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October 17, 2024, 6 p.m. - 7:30 p.m.
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October 23, 2024, 8 a.m. - 5 p.m.
Additional Resources
Lindsay Watkins
lindsay.watkins@unh.edu
(603) 527-5475
Wendy Scribner
wendy.scribner@unh.edu
603-447-3834
Matt Kelly
matt.kelly@unh.edu
603-352-4550
Ray Berthiaume
ray.berthiaume@unh.edu
603-788-4961
James Frohn
jim.frohn@unh.edu
603-787-6944
Michael Gagnon
michael.gagnon@unh.edu
603-641-6060
Tim Fleury
tim.fleury@unh.edu
603-255-3733
Greg Jordan
greg.jordan@unh.edu
603-679-5616
Lindsay Watkins
lindsay.watkins@unh.edu
603-749-2529
Dode Gladders
dode.gladders@unh.edu
603-863-9200
Steven Roberge
steven.roberge@unh.edu
603-862-4861
forest.info@unh.edu
1-800-444-8978 within New England
603-862-3883