Northern Family Forest Owner Survey Highlights the Challenges Faced

摘要

The average woodland ownership in the North has 46 acres of wooded land. Fifty-four percent of the ownerships have relatively small holdings between one and nine acres, but 92 percent of the woodland area is owned by ownerships with ten acres or more.This is important because the size of holdings constrains what an ownership can do with the land, such as timber harvesting, wildfire protection or control of invasive species. This is also important because size of holdings is a strong predictor of many ownership characteristics, such as woodland management practices.