Books/Publications

[Ron Scott]

Backyard Woods-Bring Your Vision to Life

The National Arbor Day Foundation and the US Foresrt Serice have cooperated to develop a new publication, "Backyard Woods" and set of fact sheets to provide you information on how to properly care and maintain your wooded property and maximize your enjoyment.

You may download or purchase a copy from the National Arbor Day Foundation at http://www.arborday.org/backyardwoods/index.cfm

[andzja]

Thanks, very good resource!!

[Ron Scott]

TIMBER TAX REFERENCE

Timber Tax Management for Family Forest Owners
by Hoover and Koontz

Order at http://www.timbertax.org 

The tax treatment of family forests is a very specialized area of taxation. Professor Hoover has devoted his career to making these provisions understandable to family forest owners. Mr. Koontz partnered with Professor Hoover as a graduate student at Purdue University, Department of Forestry and Natural Resources. As part of his graduate program Mr. Koontz learned the tax treatment of timber and created the National Timber Tax Website. He has continued in this role and answers the hundreds of questions submitted to the site.

This publication is intended for family forest owners who don't have immediate access to tax professionals with expert knowledge and experience in this highly specialized field. Although the information included will be adequate for family forest owners needing to report basic transactions, we recommend that all family forest owners work with a tax professional in their vicinity. We have included footnotes citing the authority for almost all of the tax treatments discussed. These can be ignored by most readers. They are intended to provide tax professionals working with family forest owners the information needed to justify the treatment of timber related transactions.

About the Authors

Professor Hoover is a nationally recognized expert in the application of the federal income and estate tax laws to family forest owners and has lectured throughout the United States on this subject. He writes a tax column for the Tree Farmer magazine, has been an author of the last four editions of the U.S. Forest Service's official tax publication, Forest Owners' Guide to the Federal Income Tax, and is founder and chairman of the National Timber Tax Website, http://www.timbertax.org  He was also the editor of the Timber Tax Journal from Volume 15 to 20, at which time it ceased publication. He teaches forest economics and watershed management at Purdue University and conducts research on tax policy. Professor Hoover resides in West Lafayette, Indiana.

Mr. Koontz obtained his MS under Professor Hoover and has continued to work with him in the development of the National Timber Tax Website as webmaster and primary respondent to questions submitted to the site. He is also developing timber depletion accounting software. Mr. Koontz resides in Meridian, Idaho.

Copyright 2009 ©
ISBN 978-0-615-28267-1
Timber Tax LLC
1050 W. Bacall St
Meridian, ID 83646
All Rights Reserved

[Ron Scott]

The Forester’s Log: Musings from the Woods

by Mary Stuever, UNM Press, ISBN 978-0-8263-4458-8, $24.95

A collection of writings that span decades, ecosystems, and topics focusing on the forests of the American Southwest.

A modern voice, passionate for a society that loves and fosters healthy forests.

What others are saying about The Forester’s Log:

“The Forester’sLog is about stewardship of America’s woodlands, but it is also about life—joys and sorrows, lessons learned, and people met along the way.”  --High Country (Review by Dave Caffey)

“This new book by Mary Stuever is a “find” – like walking through the woods and coming across a lion track on a path, or watching a goshawk gliding through the trees.” – White Mountain Independent (Review by Jo Baeza)

“Stuever takes her readers along the Rio Grande bosque and across the high deserts and mountains of Arizona as she explores the relationships between land and people.” – Los Alamos Monitor

“This book has much to recommend it to practicing foresters, prospective foresters, and anyone else with an interest in forests and how they are managed.  On one level, it can be read simply to educate oneself about forestry in the Southwest, ranging from the big-picture issues to how it is practiced on the ground on a day-to-day basis.  What makes this book most interesting, though, is how effectively it blends the bigger story of forestry with an intensely personal account of one person’s experience with forests and as a professional forester.” – Journal of Forestry (Review by Jim Allen)

“Forester Mary Stuever started writing newspaper columns "to share my love for forests and my passion for my chosen profession." It's a profession that has changed dramatically during the last 25 years, and in her new collection, The Forester's Log, she helps us understand how -- and why -- those changes have occurred. The old emphasis on harvesting "board-feet" is now overshadowed by the critical need to restore natural conditions to the "cramped, crowded, cluttered forests" left by a century of fire suppression.” – High Country News (Review by Irene Wanner)

Mary Stuever
POB 474, Placitas, NM 87043
505-301-9935; sse@nmia..com

UNM Press 2009
www.foresterslog.com

 

[Ron Scott]

NEW MSU EXTENSION BULLETINS

E3076 "The Future is Now: What You Need to Know About Ethanol"
E3077 "Fueling the Future: Potential Biomass Crops for Michigan"
E3078 "Growing the Future: Switchgrass Management for Ethanol"
E3079 "Sustainable Crop Removal: Maintaining Soil Quality" 

These bulletins are available in PDF format at [ http://web2.msue.msu.edu/bulletins/mainsearch.cfm], then do a "keyword" search using the bulletin numbers, e.g. E3076. 

They are not specifically oriented towards woody crops, such as willow or hybrid aspen, but there are valuable concepts potentially relevant to wood energy plantations.  A series of bulletins addressing woody biomass for energy is in the works.  ETA unknown. 

[Ron Scott]

FORESTRY MANUAL FOR HIGH SCHOOLS


Forestry for High Schools

Those of you who attended the fall 2008 Michigan SAF conference in East Lansing will remember a presentation by Dave Glenn, a teacher from Rochester Adams High School. He developed and used for many years a day-long forestry field studies unit for his advance placement environmental studies course. He mentioned that they  were in the process of writing a manual that outlined this field experience. That manual has just been published by the National Science Teachers Association Press ( www.nsta.org/store/product_detail.aspx?id=10.2505/9781935155089). It is available both in printed and electronic format (PDF) for $17.96 (NSTA members) or $22.45 (non-members).

 

[Ron Scott]

The Dictionary of Forestry.

The definitive source of forest terminology is now available on line at
http://www.dictionaryofforestry.org/

[beenthere]

Good resource. Thanks for the post Ron.

[Tom]

And then there is this book, co-authored by our very own Ron Scott, Forester extraordinaire.
Maybe you can find a copy of it somewhere.


Underwater logging
By John E. Cayford and Ronald E. Scott

Type of Work:Non-dramatic literary work
Title:Underwater logging. By John E. Cayford and Ronald E. Scott.
Variant title:Underwater logging.

Names:Cayford, John E.
Scott, Ronald E.

[SwampDonkey]

You can get it used at Amazon Tom


"According to Underwater logging, by John Cayford and Ronald Scott, (Cornell Maritime Press, Cambridge, Maryland, 1964, 81 p., $3.00) countless logs in the lakes, ponds and rivers of the United States and Canada can provide a diving group with a full season of work and substantial rewards. This booklet describes the techniques and equipment for the salvaging of timber sunken during extraction operations, and the text covers also selling, contracts, sawmills and the utilization of sunken logs."

From: http://www.fao.org/docrep/24755e/24755e09.htm (United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization)

[James P.]

Ron, thanks 

The Dictionary of Forestry the  is very helpful. keeps everything you guys talk about from going completely over my head