Starting Time: 00:00
Hayes D. Brown, attorney and forest owner, will moderate this news conference.
Hayes’ email address is hbrown@afoa.org.
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Starting Time: 00:54
Dr. David Mercker has served as an extension forester for 21 years with the University of Tennessee Extension. He recently developed a set of videos called “Back Porch Forestry” that talk viewers through forestry topics in a casual and approachable way. His episode on taxes and timber casualty loss caught our attention, especially given the number and severity of storms this year. We asked him to walk us through what landowners should know about casualty losses as they prepare for tax season.
Starting Time: 04:38
Jonathan Shears is the Regional Scaling Manager for the American Forest Foundation (AFF). We asked Jonathan to speak with us as part of our three-part series on a new set of carbon credit programs that are coming available for family forests. These programs allow family forest owners to take part in the carbon offset market, if it aligns with their goals and objectives for their land.
Starting Time: 10:48
Joshua Windham is an attorney at the Institute for Justice, and is involved in a case in Tennessee that questions the assumption of privacy on your own land that many landowners take for granted. At the heart of the case are some landowners who found game cameras owned by the Tennessee Fish and Wildlife Service on their private property. In one case, removing the unmarked camera resulted in agents at the landowner’s door. We asked Jonathan to tell us about the obscure policy that makes this legal, and the Institute for Justice’s challenge.
Starting Time: 15:31
Amanda Lang is COO and VP of Client Services at Forisk Consulting, LLC and leads all of Forisk’s operating, project management and Forisk Subscriber Support activities. Forisk recently posted on their blog about the outlook over the next few years for timber supply. By looking at sawmills projected to come online over the next few years, Forisk has some sunny news for forest owners looking at timber markets down the road.
