Resources for Landowners

General

• Cornell Cooperative Extension - Forest Connect
• The Place You Call Home - A Guide to Caring for Your Land in New York, A Northern Woodlands Publication
• Forest Owners, this has a lot of information for forest owners ranging from what other forest owners are doing with their land to who you can call for help to timber and woodland tax information and workshops.
• Forest Connect Webinars, sign up for these excellent webinars.
• Cornell Cooperative Extension of Rensselaer County
• NYS DEC Environmental Resource Mapper
• Natural Heritage Program - Conservation Guides
• Northern Woodlands Magazine - A New Way of Looking at the Forest

Your Land Your Legacy

• MassWoods Forest Conservation Program
• Your Land, Your Legacy Publication
• US Forest Service, Estate Plannig Options for Family Forests
• An Introduction to Estate Planning - Dinnie Sloman
• USDA - What Will Become of Your Timberland?

Habitat Improvement/Protection

• Audubon New York Bird Conservation in the Hudson River Valley
• Audubon New York Habitat Management Decision Tree
• Forestry Habitat Management Guidelines for Vernal Pool Wildlife

Forestry

• Master Forest Owner Program
• Agroforestry Resources Center
• New York Forest Owners Association
• Foresters’ Perceptions of Forest Regeneration and Possible Barriers to Regeneration in New York State

Conservation

• Rensselaer Land Trust
• Agricultural Stewardship Association

Forest Legacy Program

• Information for Landowners
• About the Forest Legacy Area

Taxes

• Tax Tips for Forest Landowners for the 2010 Tax Year
• New York's 480a Forest Tax Law Program

Incentive Programs

• NRCS Wildlife Habitat Incentive Program (WHIP)
• Wildlife Habitat Incentive Program (WHIP) New York
• NRCS Environmental Quality Program (EQIP)