Management with LandVest

LandVest’s Forest Management services allow for an intimate, long-term partnership between the forester, the landowner, and the land. Our dedicated management personnel in regional offices throughout the Northeast, Mid-Atlantic, South, and Pacific Northwest provide a full suite of front-line management and back-office operational support, tailored to each clients’ needs. We offer management to private landowners, timberland investment management organizations, conservation groups and municipal entities.

We offer the following services:

MANAGEMENT PLANNING

From acquisition through disposition, our team of experts helps you define your short-term and long-term goals, prioritize activities and maximize values.

• Inventory design and implementation
• Growth and yield modeling, sustainable harvest projections
• Sustainable forest management plans to meet regulatory, conservation easement, tax abatement or green certification compliance
• High quality, web-based and mobile application mapping

OPERATIONAL EXECUTION

When it’s time to put the plan into action, our decades of experience and technical knowledge help control costs and guide each project to success.

• Silvicultural planning and implementation
• Access development
• Infrastructure design, layout and project management
• Permitting, regulatory compliance and best management practices

TIMBER SALE ADMINISTRATION

When your goals include the commercial harvest of forest products, our foresters are ready to assist. Matching site conditions with professional contractors and fluctuating timber markets is critical to maximizing return while minimizing long-term impacts to your forest.

Learn more about  Timber Sale Administration

FOREST CERTIFICATION

Forest certification is a voluntary third-party process to identify and recognize well-managed forestland. Having managed certified lands for over two decades, LandVest’s forest management policies, procedures, and field operations have been repeatedly compared to an established set of rigorous standards which address the social, environmental and economic impacts of forests and surrounding communities.

• Access to multiple certification schemes. Group options to reduce costs.
• Independent third-party audits
• Increased market access & market share
• Accepted standard for many easements

Learn more about  Forest Certification with LandVest

ALTERNATIVE VALUE ENHANCEMENT

Forests contain value beyond traditional wood products. Clean air, clean water, wildlife habitat, carbon sequestration and storage to name a few. LandVest has the expertise to assist you in the enhancement or development of these values to satisfy your own sensitivities or for economic gain.

• Wildlife and aesthetics
• Ecosystem services
• Carbon project analysis
• Conservation easements
• Non-timber forest products