Message from Stewardship Program

Many of Minnesota's non-industrial private landowners are assisted annually with management plans and technical advice. Foresters provide professional guidance to private landowners in the management of their resource for multiple-use benefits. Services provided include advice on tree planting, timber stand improvement, harvesting and marketing, and preparing management plans.

The Forest Stewardship Program provides voluntary, long-range conservation planning assistance for individual landowners. A Forest Stewardship Plan is a management plan for a forest or woodlands designed to give landowners the information they need to make management decisions to meet their needs in an ecologically sound manner.

State Forestland Statistics:

• Total forested acres = 14,800,000 acres
• Privately owned = 5,920,000 acres
• Industry = 592,000 acres
• Government = 7,696,000 acres

Stewardship in Minnesota:

• Number of stewardship plans = 11,000 (as of 7/1/00)
• Acres covered by stewardship plans = 996,232 acres (as of 7/1/00)

Links:

• Minnesota Department of Natural Resources - Division of Forestry
• University of Minnesota Extension Service
• Forest Resources Extension
• EPA: Global Warming Impacts on Minnesota
• The Nature Conservancy, Minnesota Chapter
• Minnesota Indian Affairs Council
• Forest Birds of Minnesota
• Minnesota State Forests

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