Oscoda County Conservation District
Forestry Requests? 989-826-8824
Office Questions: 989-217-1368
Forestry Referrals for the Landowner
Are you curious about how to get assistance with a timber harvest or have a management plan written for your forest property? We can help you narrow the search for that professional that is right for you and your management goals.
Would you like to learn about how the planning or harvesting process works before you retain a consultant? We can help. Through the Forestry Assistance Program our Forester, Hunter Dickinson, can work with you to determine your management goals, assess your forest resources, and discuss planning, harvesting, tree & shrub planting, cost share programs and possible tax implications.
The Referral Process:
How to find a forest professional
to write your plan or handle your harvest.
1. Schedule a site visit with a CD Forester.
2. Determine your long term goals for managing your forested lands.
3. Walk the property with your CD forester and discuss your concerns for the property. Learn how the referral process works. Determine what actions to take to achieve your forest management goals.
4. Your CD Forester will assess your property and briefly describe your project.
5. Your CD forester will post your referral on our website and email your referral to the Qualified Foresters listed for your County. They have two weeks to respond whether they are interested in your project.
6. Your CD forester will prepare and send you a document that lists all the Forest professionals who have indicated that are interested in your project along with their contact information.
7. You will contact Consultants and determine if they are compatible with your management philosophy.
8. Approximately one month later the CD Forester will call to find out if you have found a professional to handle your management concerns.
The Forestry Assistance Program works to provide an initial professional contact with landowners who are interested in forest management on their property. Our role is to provide general guidance and information and facilitate referrals to other public and private resource professionals.
Consultants interested in pursuing the project described should respond to Oscoda Conservation District at oscodacd@gmail.com by email within two weeks of any of the posting. You may include additional relevant information in your responses pertaining to the project. We will then forward your information to the landowner. We encourage landowners to contact all of the consultants who reply in a timely fashion, but the choice remains with the individual landowner. Our office will follow up with landowners to ensure they get the assistance they need.
Please contact us if you would like more information on any project, we may have other information such as notes, maps, and digital photographs or if you would like to be added to our Qualified Foresters List. Oscoda County Conservation District, P.O. Box 820, Mio MI 48647, 989-826-8824 office or oscodacd@gmail.com
Current Referrals for Ogemaw & Oscoda Counties
Referral 65-24-25
Site visit date: 7/12/24
Location: Mills Twp
Buildings: N/A
Parcel size: 147 acres
Harvest acres: ~35 acres
Soil Types: Mancelona sand, Wheatley mucky loamy sand, Brevort mucky loamy sand, Lupton muck
Landowner objectives: Keeping up with QFP harvest schedule.
Harvest Cut Plan:
Red pine thinning (7 acres) – this section has some red pine logs in it
White pine thinning (1 acre)
White pine thinning (1 acre)
Red Pine thinning (8 acres) – this section has some log trees and larger pulp trees in it, but is overall smaller than the other red pine stand above.
Oak thinning (16 acres)- I recommended that the landowner leaves white oak for wildlife and harvests all or majority of red oak. Oak wilt seems to be prevalent on the property in other places.
There are also red oaks scattered throughout property next to trails trails and edges of harvest sections that are dying that I recommended being taken out, as well as large aspen trees.
Referral Close: 7/31/24
