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Beyond the suburbs: a landowners guide to conservation management
| Author: |
Preece, K. |
| Date: |
2001 |
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Minnesota Department of Natural Resources, St. Paul, Minnesota |
| Abstract: |
It is the 21st Century. With the advent of a new millennium, more and more Minnesotans are finding a piece of the land to call their own be it a large suburban lot, 10-acre hobby farm, or 40 acres of recreational land up north.
As one of the private forest landowners in Minnesota who owns 40 percent of the state's woodlands, your forest management activities have a tremendous impact on the quality and productivity of the land. These private lands are critical in providing Minnesotans with beauty, homes for wildlife, sources of recreation, protection of watersheds, and a supply of fiber to forest industries.
A sobering statistic, however, is that the state's once-large parcels of forest and open land are being divided into smaller blocks. Approximately 800,000 acres of non-industrial private forest (NIPF) land is in parcels of less than 20 acres and the number of these smaller parcels is quickly growing.
These facts prompted the publishing of this guidebook. Smaller acreages present challenges to effective sustainable management of these lands, including natural preservation, restoration, fire control, pest control, as well as conservation management, education, and outreach. Traditional one-on-one technical assistance to NIPFers is not possible, yet the actions of the NIPFer (or nonaction) can affect the overall resource base. The purpose of this guidebook is to give you â the private landholders of Minnesota â a tool for a better understanding of conservation management.
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