Small Woodland Management

ByAngela Gupta, U of MN ExtensionBarb Spears, TWF Consulting, LLC

Art Widerstrom, MN DNR

Resources

Resource List

Overview

What is Small Woodland Management Your Goals Assessing & Inventory Your Plan Management

Goal Setting

This guy’s cute but I think the binoculars imply looking forward better… Can you get the other pic of a boy and binoculars on pg 4. (That is an image that requires approval)

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Goal Setting

General Guidelines to Consider: Encourage native species Discourage invasive species Minimize runoff Avoid construction damage Remember your neighbors

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Goal Setting - Homework

Assessing & Inventory

Connectivity

Assessing & Inventory

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USDA’s Plant Hardiness Zones

Assessing & Inventory

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Assessing & Inventory

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Your Plan

Develop your own land management plan! Include: Your goals Your inventory Your management objectives

Your Plan

I’d like to put several images of these various plans. I realize they likely won’t look like much, just paper and words, but I’d like to stack them so folks realize there are some options. Do either of you have plan covers you can scan in?

Develop a Plan

I don’t know the plans well enough – but should we recommend one of the plans mentioned on the previous slide and talk about it in more detail?

Or we could have a plan as an example and talk through it to review imporant sections…

Management: Wildlife

Wildlife will come when they have:Barb can you put in the birdfeeder pic , top right on pg 21 (how about this alternative from p. 21?)& the forest/trail pictures, bottom right, on pg 4?

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WATER

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Management: Wildlife - Food

Feed or not to Feed: birds, deer, etc

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Management: Wildlife - Food

Plant wildlife friendly native trees and shrubs - no need to artificially feed.

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Photo by birderboy

Management: Wildlife – Shelter

Barb- pic of small yellow birds and next, bottom left on pg 21 (can’t do this one), do you have the brush pile diagram on pg 23? What about the little girl with the bird house on page 21, bottom right?

Photo by Joy Weese Moll

Management: Wildlife - Water

Barb – pond pic on pg 22