Forest
Management
& Logging
Managed carefully, woodlands in Massachusetts can provide a wide variety of benefits to their owners and to our communities. Forest management can help your land serve as:
- a sustainable source of renewable wood products for you to use or
sell
- improved habitat for a wide variety of
wildlife
- an attractive place to walk, ski, hunt or hike, and
- a natural environmental filter that provides clean water and clean air for you and your
neighbors
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Besides all that, managing your woodland can help reduce your property taxes and provide you periodic income from your land.
Privately-owned woodlands make up 75 percent of Massachusetts’ 3 million acres of forest so how private woodlands are used has a major impact on our state environment. Unfortunately, only about 10 percent of privately-owned woodlands in Massachusetts are managed in a long-term, sustainable fashion.
Some of our forests are environmentally sensitive sites that do best left untouched and protected from disturbance.
Most of our woodlands, however, would benefit environmentally and financially if their owners managed them as long-term assets that will grow and thrive with a little care and planning, and not as short-term windfalls to be neglected until someday exploited. MFLA encourages woodland owners to be good stewards of their land for now, and for the future.
If you’d like to learn more about forest management, how logging can be done in an environmentally sensitive manner, or other
related topics, please select from our menu of
sub-topics on the left.
Remember: Don’t Sell Your Woods Short!
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