Forestry Program
Forestry Field Days and Clinics:
The SWCD typically offers one to two events annually to inform
private forest landowners of current or new forest management
techniques to make their woodland more productive and valuable. Many
times, other programs associated with the forest are incorporated
into the events including recreation, wildlife, ginseng production,
portable sawmills, and other related forestry related topics. Many
of these events are sponsored in cooperation with OSU-Extension and
ODNR-Division of Forestry.
Best Management Practices (BMP's):
The SWCD offers technical assistance to landowners that are planning a timber harvest without the services of a state or private consulting forester. We visit the site and make recommended conservation practices, or BMP's, to abate soil erosion during the logging operation and after the close of the sale.
Click here for:
Ohio Timber Harvest Planning Form
Current Agricultural Use
Valuation (CAUV)
Forestry Management Plans:
These plans are developed for private landowners that have ten or more acres of forestland, devoted to commercial forest production (managed for the purpose of harvesting timber). Plans include a forest visit, determination of basal area, species growing in the area, the dominant forest class, and recommended forest management practices, soils map with expected tree growth information for trees growing for that soil type. Most practices include marking the property lines, cutting of grape vines in marketable trees, creating or maintaining management trails, fencing livestock out of the woodlot, and the control of invasive species in the woodlot (optional for CAUV requirements). For more detailed forest management plan, they are referred to the ODNR Division of Forestry.
Tree Planting Sites:
Site visits for the planting
of hardwood or conifer tree seedlings.
The soils map is used to determine trees
suitable for the site.
We recommend sources of trees from private and
public sources.
For questions you may have, please contact Clayton Rico, Forest
Resource Specialist at the
Muskingum Soil and Water Conservation District at (740) 454-2027.
