Before we begin, let’s establish some rules. Generally, prescribed burning is done in pine stands. The reason is that hardwood bark can be thin and...
Owning Land
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When the first colonists first stepped off the ships in Virginia, they looked out over a vastly different world than what exists today.
Just before Thanksgiving, the U.S. Department of Agriculture quietly announced an additional 86,000 SAFE acres across seven states: Georgia, Idaho...
2014 saw the long awaited passage of the Farm Bill, which had been stalled for the previous two years in Congress.
A master plan is the key to a fully functional property, a way of looking at your land as a whole, visualizing the relationships between various...
I am not sure exactly when humans started assigning value to things. My guess is it goes back as far as maybe the trading of a mastodon hind quarter...
When buyers acquire recreational property, they often want to know two things: How do I maximize the property’s timber value? And how can I improve...
I have had the opportunity over the past several years to visit a few classic Southern plantations. With a suburban Chicago upbringing, I had not...
For most of recorded history, the value of trees has been quantified monetarily in terms of what you can get for them at the mill, or their worth off...
This amazing photograph was taken by my wife Debra one afternoon while she was sitting on a deck on Pamlico Sound in North Carolina with her favorite...