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CAPITAL IDEAS -- LIVE!
May 2006 News Conference for Forest Owners
Sponsored by Alabama Forest Owners' Association, Inc. Conference was recorded
May 17, 2006.
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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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Carol W. LaGrasse
(00:26) |
Elected Officials & You: How To Be Heard
Carol LaGrasse is the President of the
Property Rights Foundation of America, Inc, a grassroots, non-profit
organization out of Stony Creek, New York. As an expert in individual and
group issues-rallying, she compiled a
checklist of considerations to go through when you get ready to
mobilize -- visit your representative in person. Here, she also speaks to
the kinds of actions we can take in order to really be heard by our
representative, how we can organize in order to be more effective in
lobbying our reps, and also addresses the problem of voter apathy.
Phone: (518) 696-5748
Email:
lagrasse@prfamerica.org
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Enrique R. Anderson
(04:35) |
Wetlands Mitigation Banking: "New Found Money"
Enrique "Quito" Anderson is an associate with
Sutherland Asbill & Brennan
LLP, in Atlanta, Georgia. A developer who wants to build a shopping
mall on a wetland area must compensate for the damage to the aquatic
features, either on the site or off-site, in an area ecologically similar to
the development site. Meanwhile, a savvy forest landowner saw potential
profit by setting aside some of his land for conservation. The landowner set
up a
wetland mitigation bank, where the "bank" is a wetland that has
been restored. The landowner makes a "deposit" in the mitigation bank and
the developer purchases those "credits" from the owner of the conserved
land. Anderson explains mitigation banking, how it works, how to set one up,
and how it can make you money.
Phone: (404) 853-8126
Email:
enrique.anderson@sablaw.com
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Dr. Jeffrey Jackson
(08:44) |
Applying Herbicides Creatively Diversifies
Habitat
Jeff
Jackson is a wildlife management consultant and retired professor
from the University of Georgia. In an article written for the
May/June 2006 issue of
Tree Farmer Magazine, "Wildlife
Management: Be Selective with Herbicides," he writes about smarter
ways to use herbicides for wildlife habitat "because certain plants have
value for certain wildlife species." He explains smart herbicide use, how it
figures into wildlife management, and offers some examples of things he's
done on his own property to diversify wildlife habitat.
Phone: (706) 543-2656
Email:
jeffjack6@yahoo.com
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James Arthur Hitt
(14:01) |
Landowner Assistance Programs: State & Federal
Arthur Hitt is the Landowner Assistance Forester with the
Alabama Forestry
Commission
(AFC) who specializes in assisting landowners with information
regarding cost share programs. He also assisted our members at AFOA's
annual meeting on April 29 by giving a
presentation on Landowner Assistance Programs available through the
AFC, as well as other cost share programs out there available through
federal agencies. For those of you who missed the annual meeting, here is a
synopsis of that presentation.
Click here to find the Alabama Forestry Commission office in your county.
Recent Landowner Assistance Programs
Current Cost Share Programs
Phone: (334) 240-9300
Email:
arthur.hitt@forestry.alabama.gov
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Dr. Greg Ruark
(17:36) |
Increase Current Income: CRP to Silvopasture
Greg Ruark is the Program Manager for the Technology Transfer &
Applications Program at the
USDA National
Agroforestry Center, in Normal, Alabama. In many regions of the
United States, landowners are considering agroforestry as a land use
alternative. In the South, our flooded pulpwood market - along with
declining forest product manufacturing capacity - has given rise to the
suggestion that we convert
Conservation Reserve Program (CRP) lands to
Silvopasture lands. Silvopasture is the combination of trees
with forage and pasture. The trees are managed for high-value sawlogs and,
at the same time, provide shade and shelter for livestock and forage. To
most of us who are used to dealing with only timber, that idea may seem a
little alien. Ruark explains this concept and tells us if silvopasture makes
sense economically.
Phone: (256) 372-4540
Email:
gruark@fs.fed.us
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Dr. Stephen Dicke
(21:56) |
Setting Up The Books
Stephen Dicke
is an Extension Professor at Mississippi State University. Dicke somehow
managed to give an informative lecture on timber taxes during an
action-packed bus tour at AFOA's annual meeting on April 28, 2006. Such
bravery should not go unpunished, so we've asked him to point out one of the
features of his lecture, the Forestry Income Tax Series. You should
find the Series especially useful because it was written primarily
with you in mind, it lacks complicated tax jargon, and it teaches tax truths
by lots of working examples.
Forestry Income Tax Series Presents:
Phone: (601) 857-2284
Email:
steved@ext.msstate.edu
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Dr. Robert A. Daniels
(25:29) |
Alabama Timber
Market Report
Bob Daniels is an Extension Forester at Mississippi State
University. Daniels studies the Alabama timber market and has been closely
following prices for timber products since Katrina. He gives us the report
on the Alabama timber market and offers some advice for us regarding the
market at this time.
Phone: (662) 325-3151
Email:
bobd@ext.msstate.edu
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