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Forestry Cooperatives For Diverse Management Goals: An Assessment Of Interest Levels Among Maine's Nonindustrial Private Forest Owners Enrolled In The Tree Growth Tax Program, Brian Jonathan Schneider
Forestry Cooperatives For Diverse Management Goals: An Assessment Of Interest Levels Among Maine's Nonindustrial Private Forest Owners Enrolled In The Tree Growth Tax Program, Brian Jonathan Schneider
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Owners of small, non-industrial woodland parcels in the United States maintain heterogeneous management goals for their individual parcels. Research has shown that timber harvesting is becoming less of a priority for this landowner group. In addition, average parcel size for these ownerships has decreased noticeably over the past 20 years. Parcelization, forest fragmentation and the presence of varied landowner goals complicate the matter of conducting ecologically sound, financially feasible forest management. The purpose of this study was to present thee forestry cooperative models to small, non-industrial woodland owners in Maine and to ascertain interest levels. Cooperative models were based on …
Financial Returns To Northeast Forestland, Julie Rodenberg
Financial Returns To Northeast Forestland, Julie Rodenberg
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Throughout the past two decades, investors have become increasingly interested in forestland investment. During this time, land has been bought and sold at an increasing pace in the Northeast. Many of the buyers and sellers are interested in timberland exclusively as an investment. This study was divided into two sections. Part one used statewide stumpage data for 17 species-product combinations fiom 1960- 1 999 to explore the impact of property taxes, federal income tax and favorable capital gains treatment on real, after-tax rates of return to forest land in Maine. Property taxes, income taxes, and favorable capital gains taxes were …