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Landowner Resources
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Alabama Forestry
Commission Employee and Office
Directory |
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This is the complete directory and contact information for
all Alabama Forestry Commission offices and AFC personnel.
To download a pdf of county office phone numbers click
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Alabama
Forestry Commission's Forest
Management Sheets (index) |
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Information sheets on various aspects of
the life of a forest that a landowner may need to understand
the management of their lands. They generally describe
various stages of the growth of a forest stand from: the
selection of a tree species, site preparation, planting,
growing the trees over time, thinning, pest management
problems that might occur, wildlife considerations, and
harvesting.
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Alabama Forestry
Commission publication database |
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You can search the Forestry
Commission publication database by keyword, publication or
author.
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Alabama Forestry and
Related Laws - The Code of Alabama 1975 |
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This publication, issued in January 2001 by the Alabama Forestry Commission,
contains select provisions from the Code of Alabama, 1975, as amended by the
Alabama Legislature. It is current through the 2000 Legislative Regular
Session.
The laws listed here are subject to change by the
Legislature.
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AFC Forest
Management Services & Fees |
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The Alabama Forestry Commission offers forest management
service (several at no cost) to landowners. Such as:
Stand Management
Recommendations, Forest Management Plans, Best Management Practices (BMP), Wildlife Management Assistance, Insect & Disease Assistances, Cost-Share Programs, Firewise Assessments.
Other services
include Firelane Construction (including internal and
external firelanes), Wildlife Openings, and Water Diversion
Construction are computed on a hourly rate. Rates for
prescribed burning according to the following schedule.
For more information on our service please contact your
local Forestry
Commission office.
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AFC Stewardship Assistance |
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The Land Stewardship Biologists
in your area is available (at no cost) to provide on site
technical assistance to evaluate wildlife habitat and
provide recommendations for landowners management goals.
For additional information and assistances please contact
Allen Varner.
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Alabama's Best Management Practices
for Forestry (BMP) |
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Information and guidelines for BMP in Alabama. If you
would like more information about Alabama's BMPs you can
contact your local Forestry
Commission office or the Alabama Forestry Commission's
BMP Forester
Jim Jeter.
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Considerations
when Selling Your Timber |
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A timber harvest marks
completion of many years of growth and should be carefully considered. If
done properly, the landowner will profit from the sale and, equally
important, the site will be protected for the next reforestation.
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Cost-Share
Programs |
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Emergency Forest CRP Program |
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The Emergency Forestry CRP Program helps eligible landowners and operators
restore and enhance forestland damaged by 2005 hurricanes Dennis, Katrina,
Ophelia, Rita and Wilma. Trees planted through EFCRP will help reduce flood
effects, protect water sources, decrease soil erosion and improve wildlife
habitat.
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Forest
Health Initiative |
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The EQIP Forest Health Special Initiative
is designed to promote and inform private forest landowners
about timber stand improvement practices that can improve
growth, reduce risks of insects and diseases, and improve
forest health.
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Cost Share: Southern Pine Beetle Prevention Program |
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Financial incentives are available for a limited time to
help forest landowners in Alabama protect pine forests from
bark beetle attacks. In the short term, these incentives
are designed to offset some of the costs of SPB prevention
measures. The long-term goal is to reduce the
susceptibility of Alabama forests to future SPB outbreaks.
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Cost-Share:
NRCS, 2008 NRCS Announces Forest Health
Special Initiative |
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SDA’s Natural Resources Conservation Service (NRCS) State
Conservationist Gary Kobylski today announced the signup for
the new Alabama Forest Health Special Initiative under the
Fiscal Year 2008 Environmental Quality Incentives Program (EQIP).
The first batching date to rank eligible contracts is
October 26, 2007.
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Cost Share: NRCS, Emergency Watershed Protection (EWP) |
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EWP was set up by Congress to respond to emergencies created
by natural disasters and assists in relieving hazards to
life and property from floods and the products of erosion
created by natural disasters that cause a sudden impairment
of a watershed. A sudden watershed impairment results from a
single natural occurrence or a short-term combination of
occurrences. For the watershed to be eligible for
assistance, the impairment must significantly exceed that
which existed before the disaster.
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Cost Share: NRCS,Wetlands Reserve Program (WRP) In Alabama |
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The Wetland Reserve Program (WRP) is designed to provide
technical and financial assistance to landowners interested
in restoring converted cropland back into wetlands. The goal
of the program is to restore wildlife habitat and improve
water quality.
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Cost Share: NRCS, Wildlife Habitat Incentives Program (WHIP)
In Alabama |
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The Wildlife Habitat Incentives Program (WHIP) is a
voluntary program that encourages creation of high quality
wildlife habitats that support wildlife populations of
National, State, Tribal, and local significance. Through
WHIP, the Natural Resources Conservation Service (NRCS)
provides technical and financial assistance to landowners
and others to develop upland, wetland, riparian, and aquatic
habitat areas on their property.
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Cost Share: USDA, Wildlife Habitat Buffers, Riparian Buffers |
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USDA
Farm Service Agency's (FSA) Conservation Reserve Program
(CRP) is a voluntary program that helps agricultural
producers safeguard environmentally sensitive land. CRP
participants plant long-term, resource-conserving covers to
improve the quality of water, control soil erosion, and
enhance wildlife habitat. In return, FSA provides
participants with rental payments and cost-share assistance.
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Cost Share: USDA, Alabama Environmental Quality Incentives
Program (EQIP) |
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The
Environmental Quality Incentives Program (EQIP) is a USDA
program that provides payments to participants to address
significant natural resource concerns on agricultural lands.
EQIP
funds are awarded to landowners/users who agree to implement
conservation/environmental practices and systems through a
contracting process. Practices and plans for EQIP are to
treat the land to a sustainable level to address the primary
national, state, and county resource concerns.
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Cost Share: USDA, CP-31 Bottomland (hardwood) Timber Establishment on Wetlands
initiative |
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USDA Farm Service Agency
(FSA): The Bottomland (hardwood) Timber Establishment on
Wetlands initiative is a new effort under the Conservation
Reserve Program (CRP) that works to improve air and water
quality as well as increase wildlife habitat along wetland
areas. The initiative allows producers to enroll in a CRP
practice on lands suitable for growing bottomland hardwood
trees or adapted shrubs that will provide multipurpose
forest and wildlife benefits.
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Cost Share: USDA, P-33 Northern Bobwhite Quail Habitat Initiative |
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USDA Farm Service Agency's
(FSA) Conservation Reserve Program (CRP) Northern Bobwhite
Quail Habitat Initiative is aimed at creating 250,000 acres
of habitat for the northern bobwhite quail.
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Cost Share: USDA CP-36 Longleaf Pine Initiative |
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USDA's
Farm Service Agency (FSA) unveiled a Conservation Reserve
Program (CRP) Longleaf Pine Initiative designed to reforest
up to 250,000 acres of longleaf pine forests in nine
southern states.
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Cost-Share:
USDA, 2008 Environmental Quality Incentives Program (EQIP) |
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Alabama USDA-Natural Resources Conservation Service (NRCS)
is accepting applications for the fiscal year 2008
Environmental Quality Incentives Program (EQIP). The EQIP
program, administered by NRCS, provides technical and
financial assistance to help eligible agricultural producers
address soil, water, air, and related natural resource
concerns on their operations. For more information contact
your local NRCS office.
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Drought Monitor Map |
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The Drought Monitor is a synthesis of multiple indices,
outlooks and news
accounts, that represents a consensus of federal and
academic scientists.
The
Drought Monitor Map is update every Thursday.
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Eastern Forest
Environmental Threat Assessment Center |
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Eastern forests are vulnerable to stresses from insects and
disease, wildland loss, invasive species, uncharacteristic
fire, and climate change. As new threats emerge and old
threats resurface, the Eastern Forest Environmental Threat
Assessment Center (EFETAC) is an interdisciplinary resource
that is actively developing new technology and tools to
anticipate and respond to emerging eastern forest threats.
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Forest Encyclopedia,
USDA Forest Service Research Station's |
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This site provides natural resource professionals and the
public the scientific knowledge and tools they need to
achieve their objectives.
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Forest Health Protection-USDA Southern Region |
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Forest Health Protection (FHP) is a unit of the USDA Forest
Service that employs pest management specialists, forest
entomologists and plant pathologists to provide technical
assistance in the prevention, detection, evaluation and
suppression of forest insect and disease pest problems.
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Forest
Industry Database |
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The Alabama Forestry Commission's Forest Industry directory
presents general information on Alabama’s forest resources
and the forest manufacturing industry in Alabama. You can
search the database by: company name, plant type, county,
SIC code or produces produced. You can also download a pdf
version of the complete manual
here.
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Forest Landowners Guide to the Federal Income Tax |
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National Timber Tax website.
The primary purpose of this
handbook is to foster good forest management by combining,
in one source, relevant information for analyzing
investments in forest management and an explanation of the
Federal income tax law associated with those investments.
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Forest Landowners
Tax Tips 2006 |
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This bulletin summarizes key federal income tax provisions
related to owning and managing forest land. It is current as
of December 1, 2006, and supersedes Management Bulletin
R8-MB 126. But it is only an introduction.
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Products Privilege and Severance Tax Laws
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This booklet is a copy of the Alabama Products Severance Tax Law
including all amendments through the 1993 Regular Session of the Alabama
Legislature.
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Forest Vendors
Database |
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A searchable database of Forest Vendors that are located or
doing business in Alabama. This lists provide landowners
with useful contact information when managing their
forestland.
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Forest Timber Buyers Database |
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A searchable database of Forest Timber Buyers that are
located or doing business in Alabama. This lists provide
landowners with useful contact information when managing
their forestland.
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NRCS Address Directory |
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Office Directory for the Natural Resources Conservation
Service.
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Seedling
Vendor's List |
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This is list of private vendors that can supply seedlings to
the public. The list is in alphabetical order and is in
no way an endorsement of any company or product. The
list is being provided as a service to landowners who are
looking for a seedling source. |
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Southern Pine
Beetle Report |
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The Alabama Forestry Commission monitors Southern Pine
Beetle activity across the state and publishes updated
information quarterly on our website.
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Timber
Products Output (TPO) |
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TPO studies report size and composition of
primary wood using industries, use of roundwood by product, by species and
by geographic location. This information provides a snapshot of
where timber is being harvested and where it is transported.
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Timber Mart South |
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A very well-know and respected
price index that provides regional timber prices can be found on the
Timber Mart South
website. This index provides useful timber price averages for the
Southeast as well as price trends.
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Tax Tips 2007 |
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This guide is designed to
assist owners of forest land with timber tax information. It is current
as of October 1, 2007, and supercedes Management Bulletin R8-MB 128. It
is strictly for educational purposes; consult your legal and tax
professionals
for advice on a specific tax situation.
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Urban Forest Hurricane Recovery Program |
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The University of Florida /Institute of Food and
Agricultural Sciences (UF/IFAS) created the Urban Forest
Hurricane Recovery Program after the devastation of the 2004
and 2005 hurricane seasons. The main goal of the program is
to foster a healthy urban forest that is more wind
resistant. The program is aimed at citizens and communities
who seek to rebuild and set better management practices so
that future storms are less devastating. |
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