Promoting Private Forests

Not Your Grandfather’s Timber: What the Future May Hold for the Next Generation of Forest Landowners

General Session
02 Jun 2017
8:30 am - 10:00 am

Not Your Grandfather’s Timber: What the Future May Hold for the Next Generation of Forest Landowners

For a century, the United States has been a model of sustainable forestry, yielding a stable forest inventory despite massive increases in demand for wood and wood fiber. Private forest landowners have been a huge part of that success story.

This panel will offer a forward look at how the forest ownership landscape has and is, changing. How can private forest landowners best position themselves to preserve the opportunities and rewards they’ve enjoyed for another century?

This multi-generational panel will take a long view on the science, market growth and advocacy work that lies in front of all forest stakeholders if the next 100 years are to be as prosperous as the last.