Owning Wisconsin Woodlands:Your Guide to Information and Publications

Over the years, many informative and useful publications, factsheets, and other printed materials have been created to assist private woodland owners. This CD brings many of them together and organizes them to help you find the information you need to understand and manage your land. To read most of the publications on this CD, you will need Adobe's Acrobat Reader. Adobe 9.0 for Windows or Adobe 8.1.2 for Mac can be downloaded from this CD. Other versions are available free by following this link (you must be connected to the Internet for this to work).

Click on a topic or browse the index.

	Forestry Concepts
	Learn the basics of forestry including definitions, terms and how to inventory a forest.

	Forest Management
	How to plan for the future of your forest and timber harvests, recreation considerations, working with a forester, Best Management Practices for Water Quality, managing for firewood and the Managed Forest Law

	Tree Planting and Establishment
	Preparation for planting trees, tree planting, Christmas trees, collecting seed, and more...

	Ecology and Wildlife
	Deer, rabbits, wildlife ecology, finding and counting wildlife, habitat management, wildfire, Firewise, and more...

	Pests of the Forest
	Gypsy moth, oak wilt, threats to your forest, weed control, herbicide use, and more...

	Safety
	How to stay safe in your forest.

	Economics, Taxes and Woodland Owner Assistance Programs
	Forestry investments, property taxes/ MFL, income taxes, non-timber forest products, assistance programs, land measures and borders, and trespass/liability.

	Timber Harvesting as a Business
	Various aspects of running a wood products business including kilns, forest value, marketing and grading.

	Miscellaneous
	Publications that may be of interest including the Forest Management Guidelines and Wisconsin Forests.

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This CD is a product of the Department of Forest Ecology and Management at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, UWEX Cooperative Extension Service, and Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources Division of Forestry.