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CAPITAL IDEAS -- LIVE!
June 2005 News Conference for Forest Owners
Sponsored by Alabama Forest Owners' Association, Inc. Conference was recorded
June 15, 2005.
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Hayes D. Brown
starting time: (00:00) |
Moderator
Hayes D. Brown, attorney and forest owner, will moderate this
news conference. Hayes' email address is
hbrown@hayesbrown.com.
Click Here to View & Hear Prior News Conferences.
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Tom Randall (00:29) |
The Endangered Species
Act: Update and Strengthen
Tom Randall is a senior
partner with
Winningreen
LLC, a public policy consulting firm based in Chicago, Illinois. He
is supporting the efforts of
House Resource
Committee Chairman
Richard Pombo (R-CA) and
Senator Mike Crapo
(R-ID) to
update and strengthen the
Endangered
Species Act. Private forest owners are harmed by the 1973 ESA when
it takes some or all of their land without paying for it. Private forest
owners in the West were harmed when the Act bankrupted their stumpage buyers
by shutting down National Forest timber sales. The 1973 ESA hasn't been too
successful at "saving" species either. Randall discusses its effectiveness
and what could be done to make it work better.
Phone: (773) 857-5086
Email: trandall@winningreen.com
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Jimmy R. Delaney
(03:39) |
Linden-Area Landowner
Questions Credibility of Pulp Mill Proposal
Jimmy Delaney is a concerned landowner from Linden, Alabama, who has
some reasonable questions for the developers of a proposed pulp mill that
may be entering his community. The mill's purpose would be to turn a
bamboo-like plant,
Arundo donax to pulp, and
Global Cellulose Systems wants area landowners to grow it. In the
excitement of a new industry and new jobs, local taxpayers and landowners
may be reluctant to ask the tough questions. Delaney is here to suggest how
they can start.
Click here to
read Delaney's Letter to the Editor sent to Marengo County area newspapers
(posted 08/12/05)
If This Project Fails:
- will local taxpayers be responsible
for its debts?
- who will pay to remove 30,000 acres
of bamboo roots from local cropland?
Links of Interest:
Phone: (205) 460-0910
Email: ellenm@delaneyinc.net
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Dr. Thomas Straka
(10:16) |
How to Value Land
Thomas Straka is Professor of Forest Management and Economics
at Clemson University in South Carolina. Figuring out the value of your land
just got easier. Simply
follow the steps in Straka's guide (under "Bare Land Values") and
plug your figures into
FORVAL,
a free computer software model and you have an easy solution with a land
expectation option! Still confused? Straka takes us step-by-step through the
process with some example figures.
- Open
FORVAL
- Click on "Financial Criteria"
- Type of Calculation -- Select
"Net Present Value"
- Input per acre tree planting cost of $100
- Cost/Revenue Type -- Select
"Single Sum"
- Cost/Revenue Dollar Amount --
input "100"
- Year Cost/Revenue -- input "0"
- Click on "Add Cost"
- Input annual per acre property
taxes and expenses of $2 per year
- Cost/Revenue Type -- Select
"Terminating Annual"
- Cost/Revenue Dollar Amount --
input "2"
- Year Cost/Revenue occurs -- input "1"
- Year Cost/Revenue ends -- input "30"
- Click on "Add Cost"
- Input $500/acre pulpwood thinning
income at age 15
- Cost/Revenue Type -- Select
"Single Sum"
- Cost/Revenue Dollar Amount --
input "500"
- Year Cost/Revenue occurs -- input "15"
- Click on "Add Revenue"
- Input $1500/acre final harvest
income at age 30
- Cost/Revenue Type -- Select
"Single Sum"
- Cost/Revenue Dollar Amount --
input "1500"
- Year Cost/Revenue occurs -- input
"30"
- Click on "Add Revenue"
- Click on "Calculate" to determine
Net Present Value of This Timber Management Scheme
- The program will ask for an
interest rate -- input "4"
Net Present Value = $605.52
If you click on "Calculate" again and
change the interest rate to 5%, the net present value will fall to
$456.82.
6/15/05 5:32 PM CT
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Phone: (864) 656-4827
Email: tstraka@clemson.edu
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Paul Easley
(14:18) |
Small Sawmill Successfully
Teams With eBay
Paul Easley runs a successful sawmill and retail store establishment,
Oak Leaf Wood ’N Supplies, in Moweaqua, Illinois. His success is due
to his ability to find value in something others throw away. Whatever
"waste" is left over from a timber operation, Easley can turn it into cash.
What doesn't sell in his shop, he manages to sell quickly and easily on
eBay. And it always sells. Easley shares his enthusiasm and
the secrets to his success in this niche market.
Phone: (217) 768-4944
Email: inwoods@frontiernet.net
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Ted DeVos (18:17) |
Dressing Up the Front "40"
Ted DeVos
is co-owner of
Bach and DeVos Forestry and Wildlife Services in Montgomery,
Alabama. Woodland grinders are becoming an alternative to various forestry
operations and aesthetics. DeVos explains how he uses grinders in his
mulching business and what the service costs these days.
Phone: (334) 269-2224
Email: ted@bachanddevos.com
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Rhett Johnson
(21:50) |
Hardwood or Longleaf Pine
Management Consulting Fee Paid
Rhett
Johnson is co-director of the
Solon Dixon Forestry Education Center, located in Andalusia,
Alabama. Interested in planting or managing upland or bottomland hardwoods
or longleaf pine on your land? A new program allows you a free
one-day visit to your land by a qualified professional consulting forester
who has training in this. Johnson will put you in touch with a consultant
and give you information on the details of the program. Be prepared to tell
this professional what your management objectives are and to accompany him
or her on a tour of your property. Note: Offer is only good until
September 15, 2005.
Phone: (334) 222-7779
Email: dxnctr@alaweb.com
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Darren Kirkham
(25:42) |
Pine Plantation Thinning
Crew
Darren Kirkham is a forester with
Saco Wood, Inc.,
located in Prattville, Alabama. He wrote a letter to AFOA, telling us about
Saco Wood's services and we thought you'd be particularly interested in his
Operator Select, Pine Plantation Thinning Crew. *
A good pine plantation thinning crew will:
- Use small, maneuverable feller/buncher
- Have a well-trained equipment operator
- Focus on the ability of “leave” trees to
grow into quality sawtimber
*AFOA has a long standing policy of
encouraging landowners who plan to sell timber to employ the services of a
consulting forester who doesn’t buy stumpage. In the past, the
consultant might mark diseased, crooked, and crowded trees in a young pine
plantation to be removed by the logger, but the cost of marking trees in low
value young plantations has become prohibitive. AFOA continues to urge
landowners to use the services of a consulting forester when thinning a
young pine plantation, but the service will be focused on logger
selection and contract compliance rather than tree selection and sale
advertising.
Phone: (334) 365-0694
Email: info@sacowood.com
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Robert Flynn
(29:04) |
International Markets: An
Update
Bob Flynn is
director of Consulting Services with
Wood Resources International.
The U.S. is the world’s largest producer of forest products, and the
U.S. dollar has been weakening in the past several years. Does this mean
that our exports of forest products have been increasing? Who are the major
trading partners with the U.S. in wood products, and what are the primary
products involved? What about the pulp and paper sector? Flynn provides us
with answers to these questions by offering an international market update.
Phone: (253) 565-4846
Email: bobgflynn@aol.com
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