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CAPITAL IDEAS -- LIVE!
SEPTEMBER 2014 News Conference for Forest Owners
Sponsored by the Alabama Forest Owners' Association, Inc.
This Conference was recorded on September 17,
2014
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Hayes D. Brown
starting time: (00:00)
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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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Dr. Terry L. Anderson
(00:25)
Hear Conference
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A Property Rights Approach
Terry Anderson is the
former President and Executive Director of the
Property and Environment Research
Center (PERC), a think tank devoted to solving environmental
problems with an idea he created called
Free Market
Environmentalism. From the PERC website -- Free Market
Environmentalism emphasizes three important points:
- Markets, property rights, and the rule
of law are fundamental to economic growth, and economic growth is
fundamental to improving environmental quality. There is a strong
correlation between treatment of the environment and standards of
living.
- Property rights make the environment an
asset rather than a liability by giving owners an incentive for
stewardship.
- Markets and the process of exchange give
people who have different ideas and values regarding the use of natural
resources a way of cooperating rather than fighting. When cooperation
supplants conflict, gains from trade emerge.
Terry and co-author Gary Libecap have
recently written a book entitled
Environmental Markets: A Property Rights Approach. We ask him
today to relate the book to the interests of private forest owners in
Alabama.
We also ask Dr. Anderson to describe a
project he is working on to document conservation benefits that flow from
private land stewardship. The results will be interesting to all private
forest owners who have long produced conservation benefits that are unfairly
claimed by public agencies and NGOs as their own.
Phone: (406) 587-9591
Email: tla@perc.org
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Dr. Bernard Kliska
(06:45)
Hear Conference
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The Value of Family Retreats
Bernard Kliska is a
licensed family therapist and
Consultant of the
Family
Business Consulting Group, Inc. If your family forestland
encompasses enough acres to be a business in its own right, you and your
family business participants may need to step back once in a while to take a
breath and see where you are going. We read
Dr.
Kliska's 7/1/14 blog on family retreats and knew that some of the
members of the Alabama Forest Owners' Association would benefit from his
advice.
A few excerpts from his blog:
- a family retreat should be a time to align values
- have some fun
- held in an informal
setting
- have a facilitator to help guide the
family with their interaction
- a good idea .. can fall flat or even become an
occasion for family flare-ups -
so what makes for a good family retreat?
- Develop a Defined Outcome
- Be Thoroughly Prepared
- Bring Solid Content
- Ensure Effective Process
- an opportunity to prevent
confusion, dissension and conflict
Phone: (312) 988-9328
Email: kliska@thefbcg.com
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Melisa V. Love
(09:59)
Hear Conference
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Introducing
ForesterSearch.com
Lisa Love is
President of Forestry Consultants, Inc. and
Vice Chairman of the Bradley/Murphy Forestry and Natural Resources Extension
Trust. Long interested in
improving public knowledge of the consulting forestry profession, Lisa
has untaken a huge project for the Bradley/Murphy Trust. She has created a
website,
www.ForesterSearch.com, that will contain professional and
biographical information on all the consulting foresters in Alabama. The
list will contain contact information and a biographical sketch for each
consultant in each county where the consultant seeks clients. Future plans
include providing professional assistance with each consultants bio-sketches
and also producing a brief video introduction for each consultant.
BUT RIGHT NOW, Lisa would like you to
visit www.ForesterSearch.com
to use it, test it, and critique what you find there. Remember the goals
of the site are: 1) to make it easy for consulting foresters to introduce
themselves to forest landowners, and 2) to make it easy for landowners to
select the consulting foresters that they believe will help them accomplish
their forest management goals.
If you are a landowner: When the
"Alabama Consulting Forester Directory" opens up, begin typing in the
name of the county where your land is located. Select your county and the
names of foresters who seek work in that county will appear. Is the contact
information easy to use? Could you easily find the foresters phone number?
Were the bio-sketches well written? easy to read? Did you learn enough about
the foresters in your county that you would feel comfortable contacting one
or more to help you with your forest management work? Send your comments to
Lisa at
fcinc@mindspring.com.
If you are a consulting forester: When
the "Alabama Consulting Forester Directory" opens up, select the
"Forester Signup" tab and complete the form. Was the signup process easy to
use? Do you think landowners will know enough about you to consider hiring
you? If you need to edit information after completing the form, are you able
to go back into your account to make desired changes? Send your comments to
Lisa at
fcinc@mindspring.com.
Phone: (334) 745-7530
Email:
fcinc@mindspring.com
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Kip Adams
(14:00)
Hear Conference
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Fun in the Woods for Kids
Kip Adams is a Certified
Wildlife Biologist and
Director of
Education and Outreach for the
Quality Deer
Management Association. He is aware that hunter numbers continue to
decline in the U.S. and works in a variety of ways to reduce the decline.
His efforts to make deer hunting trips fun for his own kids may give you
ideas on how to make visits to your forestland fun for your kids (at least
the little ones). His daughter, Katie, made list of things that make deer
hunting fun. Who knows, with Katie's list and some added ideas on how to
make boundary line painting or trail building fun, your kids might want to
own and manage your forestland someday.
Katie's List from
Make Deer Hunting Fun for Kids,
Quality Whitetails, August/September 2014.
- Putting on camo face paint
- Wearing camo clothes
- Spraying for scent-control
- Playing cards in the blind
- Carrying (and using) game calls and
grunt tubes
- Word searches
- Coloring books
- Sharing snacks
- Playing “What bird is singing?”
- Playing “What bird will sing next?”
- Playing “Where will the next deer come
from?”
- No deer moving? Playing “Where will the
next squirrel come from?”
- Taking photos
Phone: (814) 326-4023
Email: kadams@qdma.com
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Andy Callahan
(17:12)
Hear Conference
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Pine Straw Harvesting
Andy Callahan is an
Area Forest Supervisor in Alabama and Mississippi for
Soterra, LLC. Andy called us last month when we sent out an email to
members and others in Dallas County looking for pine straw harvesters. He
said Soterra was just getting started buying and raking straw and was
looking for landowners interested in selling their straw. He explained that
pine stands that haven't been raked usually need some cleaning up before the
harvesting can begin. In fact it might take 2 or 3 years of prescribed burns
and herbicide applications before the straw is clean enough to rake. Because
Soterra will have invested money in the cleaning process, Andy said they are
interested in long-term contracts with serious sellers.
For Further Listening & Reading on Pine
Straw from Capital Ideas - Live!:
Webinar - October 9, 2014:
Manage Your Forest for Pine Straw, Rake in the Profits
Short Course - November 5-6, 2014:
Pine Straw Production - Stand Management and Economics
Phone: (251) 275-2355 ext 24
Email:
andy.callahan@greif.com
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Joel S. Martin
(21:00)
Hear Conference
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Solon Dixon Forestry Education Center -- AFOA Annual Meeting 2015
Joel Martin is
Director of the
Solon Dixon Forestry
Education Center located in Covington County,
about midway between Andalusia and Brewton on US 29. While we haven't
put together an agenda for the April 17 & 18, 2015 Annual Meeting, you might
expect tours of forestland and forest industry on Friday and indoor and
outdoor learning sessions at the Dixon Center on Saturday. There have been a
lot of changes and improvements to the
classrooms and
sleeping accommodations since we last met at the Dixon Center for our
17th Annual Meeting in 1998. However, overnight space is still limited. If
you plan to stay at the Center on Friday night, make reservations for
hotel
style rooms or
bunkhouse rooms as soon as possible. When sleeping space runs out at the
Center: Hotels in Andalusia are: Best Western (334) 222-9999, Comfort Inn
(334) 222-8891, Days Inn & Suites (334) 427-0050, Econo Lodge (334) 222-7511, and
the Holiday Inn Express (334) 222-2740. Hotels in Brewton are: Ramada
Brewton (251) 867-5741 and Quality Inn (251) 867-9999.
What to do on Friday? We'll probably
organize a visit to some managed forestland, maybe the
Escambia Experimental Forest, and some folks will probably take a look
at one or more of the local forest industry companies: perhaps
T. R. Miller Mill
or
Georgia-Pacific.
Some may want to avoid the crowds and enjoy a long walk or mountain bike
ride up to the Conecuh River or a shorter walk or ride over to the big sink
hole on the 5,300 acres of the Dixon Center. Maps are available (bring
bug spray and a hat; woods boots and long pants are probably a good idea,
too) You might also consider a visit to the
Conecuh National Forest, the
Geneva State Forest (Alabama), the
Blackwater State Forest (Florida), or
Canoe the
Blackwater River with Adventures Unlimited. Destin, Fort Walton and
Pensacola are within 1.5 hours of the Center.
Dauphin Island Sea Lab – The
State of Alabama’s Marine Science Institute and
Gulf Island
National Seashore are "local" research and education resources.
On Friday evening, we'll
all gather at the Dixon Center for a reception and dinner (maybe a hotdog
roast) - a good time to share the day's activities with
others or just cover lost ground since last seeing old friends at past AFOA
Annual Meetings.
On Saturday we'll schedule lots of
experts on a wide variety of topics that should help you manage and enjoy
your forestland. We'll take advantage of the classrooms and auditoriums used
by university professors at the Center, but we also will use the woods right
out the door for tree and shrub identification and timber cruising/forest
measurements instructions. Some of the topics we covered in 1998 were
Boundary Line Marking, Longleaf Management, Forest Taxation & Estate
Planning, Forest Herbicides, Timber Cruising & Valuation, Wildlife Food
Plots, Legal Aspects of Timber Sales, Mapping and Area Measurements -- not
bad topics to give the meeting planners a baseline.
To make
reservations for sleeping accommodations at the Dixon Center,
contact Teresa Cannon at (334) 222-7779 or send your request to
cannotj@auburn.edu. Annual
Meeting Registration information will not be available from AFOA until
January 2015 and will be sent to members in the monthly newsletter,
Capital Ideas.
Phone: (334) 222-7779
Email: marti12@auburn.edu
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Tim Logozzo, Sr.
(24:29)
Hear Conference
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Private Fire Suppression Services
Tim Logozzo is
CEO and Co-Owner with his wife, Karla, of
Wild
Fire Services, Inc., based in Yakima, Washington. When we read
Risk Takers: Wild Fire Services provides firefighters on demand in
the Yakima Herald, 9/8/14, and remembered
You Can Pay Me Now, Or Pay Me Later, an editorial about tightening
state budgets, in
Alabama Forests, Summer 2014, we thought perhaps there is another
way to protect our forestland from wildfires that doesn't require full-time
state employees, rain or shine, in every county. Tim and Karla Logozzo send
crews out to fight wild fires, but they also keep their crews and equipment
busy between wild fires, thinning stands to reduce fire hazard and
conducting prescribed burns.
Perhaps the private fire suppression model
being employed in the Pacific Northwest won't work here in Alabama, but we
know the old Alabama fire suppression model has already changed a lot in the
past 25 years and is likely to change a lot more in coming years. Tim
Logozzo's successful business offers us ideas on how to change with the
times.
Phone: (509) 949-2825
Email: wfstim@gmail.com
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Daniel E. Stuber, IV
(28:23)
Hear Conference
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Timber Market Report
Daniel Stuber is
Vice President,
Analytic Services for
Forest2Market,
a firm that offers, among other things,
stumpage
pricing services to forest landowners. Daniel was a guest of Capital
Ideas - Live! two years ago under the headline:
Construction Up...Sawtimber Prices Down? While it might appear on
the surface that not much has changed in pine sawtimber markets,
the housing market has improved since 2012, with total starts hovering
around one-million per year. On the other hand, the continued reduction in
pine sawtimber clearcuts, which also contain pulpwood and topwood, has
reduced pulpwood supply and resulted in strong pine pulpwood prices. Daniel
doesn't give us much near-term hope for better pine sawtimber prices, but
suggests that those of us who hold stands of pine pulpwood might be prepared
to thin a bit sooner and more heavily to take advantage of anticipated price
increases.
Phone: (704) 540-1440 ext 1
Email:
daniel.stuber@forest2market.com
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