Creating balance between profitability and long-term sustainability
Promoting a shared stewardship model
Many forests provide multiuse ecosystems that support recreation as well as diverse wildlife habitats that can present licensed hunting, fishing, and food gathering opportunities. Forests also help mitigate the pressures on wilderness areas when foresters use a holistic approach to manage forest health and a sustainable timber harvest, which requires understanding and compromise under a shared stewardship model. These models illuminate the value that forests provide to regional watershed services in providing clean water, erosion control, surface flow regulation, and stream bank stabilization for present and future generations.
Adjust for environmental factors
Consider balanced multiuse forest management practices for improved outcomes and their broadscale importance to long-term sustainability.
Understand your goals
Understand the balance of careful and selective sustainable timber harvest in the broader context, considering the holistic value of healthy forest ecosystems.
Balanced decision-making
Determine more equitable solutions for long-term forest sustainability under shared stewardship models with tribal, environmental, and recreational organizations.
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Enhance sustainable forest management
Spatial analysis
Highest and best use tools
Easy-to-share visual plans
Spatial analysis and data science
Explore a wide array of vector, raster, and real-time data types with powerful analytical tools to uncover new patterns and trends that can lead to greater understanding.
Highest and best use tools
Determine the optimal use of forest land using the best data and science tools available to create the most equitable usage balance.
Easy-to-share visual plans
Use web maps and apps to share data, projects, and plans easily between forest stewardship groups, and elicit feedback from informed stakeholders.
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