Landowner’s Guide to Managing Your Woods

If you’ve ever wanted to be a more active participant in ensuring the health of your woodland or thought about/are involved with logging, A Landowner’s Guide to Managing Your Woods: How to Maintain a Small Acreage for Long-Term Health, Biodiversity, and High-Quality Timber Production is a vital read!

Last year, we worked with our county resources to transform ten acres of woodland into a friendly habitat.  As part of the project, we even dug a pond and drainage for the animals who visit our forest. I wished we would have had a copy of the A Landowner’s Guide to Managing Your Woods then, it certainly offers a comphrehesive overview of stewardship.  Now, after reading, I have a much clearer picture of how the changes we made helped transform and protect our precious resources. 

I’m excited to embark on new projects and with the help of this guide, I have plenty of ideas! Whether you have a few acres of woodland or many, the authors present active steps to help you become and effective steward.  The guide includes instruction on :

  • how to assess your forest type, soils, terrain, and climate
  • how to determine what trees and wildlife will do best on your land
  • how to work with foresters and loggers to creat and implement a sustainable, long-term plan
  • how to develop wildlife habitat and trail systems
  • how to prune and thin trees to improve health and growth rate

Our pond after first rain fall. 


Overall, A Landowner’s Guide to Managing Your Woods: How to Maintain a Small Acreage for Long-Term Health, Biodiversity, and High-Quality Timber Productionis a valuable resource to have on your Rural Mom bookshelf!

Disclosure:  I received a copy of A Landowner’s Guide to Managing Your Woods: How to Maintain a Small Acreage for Long-Term Health, Biodiversity, and High-Quality Timber Production for review purposes.  All thoughts and opinions are my own.


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Barb Webb. Founder and Editor of Rural Mom, is an the author of "Getting Laid" and "Getting Baked". A sustainable living expert nesting in Appalachian Kentucky, when she’s not chasing chickens around the farm or engaging in mock Jedi battles, she’s making tea and writing about country living and artisan culture.
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