9. Threats to WoodlandsThis is a featured page

Looking ahead the next several years, what are the major threats to quality and
native diversity of privately-held woodlands?

9. Threats to Woodlands - Supporting Family Woodlands

Other:

  • Development
  • Taxes
  • Overall land conversion/development
  • State regulations that favor big operators
  • When it really comes down to it, I don't think people REALLY care; they just say they do. Also, younger (the inheritance) generations are being taught that the 'family farm' is a financial investment.
  • Many landowners own their land for recreation purposes and not for forestry. We need to sell sustainable forestry to these people.
  • Economic forces on wood product value (decreasing) and land values - taxes (increasing)
  • Competition from other value-added ag initiatives
  • Threat of gov't imposed management guidelines for endangered species or anything else on private forest lands. A large threat would be outsiders telling forest landowners what to do.
  • Conversion to non-forest uses (development)
  • Market externalities and inter-generational shifts
  • (In the west) Wildfire asserting natural cycles in stands that have been mismanaged for a century
  • Decline from pathogens and pollution
  • Family financial pressures
  • Deer herbivory
  • Federal policy disincentives for increasing complexity
  • Climate change
  • High treatment costs/small outlets for value-added processing and markets to support



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