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Selling Logs from Your Property: A Curriculum Package for Educators in the Western U.S.

By Lauren Grand Alicia Christiansen Francisca Belart Tamara L. Cushing Chris C. Schnepf and Kelsey Ketcheson

Selling logs is one of the most important decisions a landowner can face. This curriculum package for forestry educators brings together consulting foresters, log buyers and loggers to teach participants how to get a fair deal for their timber, how to protect themselves from exposure to unnecessary liability and how to make sure their property looks the way they want it to when the operation is done.

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Timber harvesting: A process of many decisions

Planning for a timber harvest? This overview can help prepare you to make informed decisions throughout the process.

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Start planning early: Things to consider when selling trees from your property

For landowners, selling trees on their property takes planning. They must know what they're selling, ensure access to their property, get estimates from tree buyers and loggers, and arrange for reforesting if required.

Lauren Grand | Dec 2018 | Article Peer reviewed (Gray level)

Small-Scale Harvesting for Woodland Owners

By Francisca Belart and Steve Bowers

Timber harvest presents challenges for woodland owners with small acreages. Planning the harvest, working with contractors and selling the logs are tasks that can seem intimidating. Here's how to make a plan, find help and avoid pitfalls —while keeping costs down and increasing revenue.

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Tall Timbers

This issue of Tall Timbers is packed with timely information for Oregon small woodland owners.

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Episode 29: Latinx Forest Workers

In this episode, Manuel Machado, Martha Valle Hernandez, and Carl Wilmsen discuss what steps are being taken in order to improve working conditions for latinx forest workers in Oregon. Recording is available in English and Spanish (click the language links above).

Manuel Machado, Martha Valle, Carl Wilmsen | Jan 2023 | Podcast episode

Episode 28: Christmas Trees

In this episode, Jacob Putney and Chal Landgren discuss the history and science behind growing Christmas trees in Oregon. Landgren is the former OSU Extension Christmas Tree Specialist.

Jacob Putney, Chal Landgren | Dec 2022 | Podcast episode

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Tree School Online helps woodland owners during COVID-19

Tree School events were provided online in a series of 35 webinars hosted by OSU Extension in Clackamas County in collaboration with the Oregon Forest Resources Institute and the Oregon Partnership for Forestry Education.

Glenn Ahrens | Mar 2021 | Impact story

Surveys show revised OSU Woodland Stick satisfies majority of users

The Woodland Stick is a simple and cost-effective tool that forest landowners can easily use to obtain rough estimates of average tree size and wood volume on their properties.

Lauren Grand, Alicia Christiansen, Francisca Belart | Jun 2020 | Impact story

Forestry extension teaches small woodland owners about selling their logs

Classroom sessions were coupled with a field tour of a recently harvested forest, woodland roads and log scaling yards

Lauren Grand | Jan 2019 | Impact story

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