White Oak Forest Management Forestry

Forestry Management Services

White Oak Forest Management provides comprehensive timber and land management services that maximize your lands potential and enjoyment. Whether a corporate owner or private land owner

Prescribed Burning

Prescribed burning can be a very effective forest management tool. Fire can be used to improve forest stand conditions, enhance wildlife habitat, and add to the aesthetic value of property. If a forestland owner has Red Cockaded Woodpeckers (RCW) fire is an essential part of approved management plans. White Oak Forest Management has a fire
tractor with a woodland plow, 4-wheelers, and an experienced burning crew with SC Forestry Commission Prescribed Fire Manager (PFM) certification. We can assist you in determining whether fire can help you to achieve your management objectives.

Wildlife Management & Aesthetics

Planting trees, using prescribed burning to reduce the understory, and establishing food plots can add to the appearance of your property and add habitat diversity. Food plots and wildlife plantings can help provide additional food for game you want to manage. Thinning overstocked stands and maintaining firebreaks can improve access to your property and reduce the danger from wildfires. White Oak Forest Management has the expertise to help you identify the improvements you want to make to your property and the equipment to meet the objectives.

Timber Appraisal

Timber value can be a significant component of overall property value. Knowing the value of your timber can be essential to setting anagement objectives, managing income flow from your property, loan security, estate planning, and taxes. Timber appraisals may also be needed for land sales or acquisitions, establishing casualty loss from wildfire
or storm damage, or determining values in timber trespass situations. Based on your needs our trained employees can produce timber cruises and maps of your timber stands. These will provide accurate volume estimates with current market valuations for your timber.

Timber Sales

Most landowners will have an opportunity to sell timber only a few times in their lifetime. Timber sales are very important and need special attention to insure that you maximize your income while meeting your long term management objectives. White Oak Forest Management can manage all phases of the timber sale for you.

Our foresters will lay out potential sale areas that meet your objectives. Accurate maps and sale boundaries will be established. If present, Streamside Management Zones (SMZ’s) will be identified and marked to protect water quality and comply with SC Best Management Practices (BMP’s). We will inventory your timber to determine the volume and value of a potential sale. Bids will be solicited from eligible buyers to obtain the best market price for your timber.the value of your timber can be essential to setting management objectives, managing income flow from your property, loan security, estate planning, and taxes. Timber appraisals may also be needed for land sales or acquisitions, establishing casualty loss from wildfire or storm damage, or determining values in timber trespass situations. Based on your needs our trained employees can produce timber cruises and maps of your timber stands. These will provide accurate volume estimates with current market valuations for your timber.

When the timber is sold we will protect your interest, monitoring the harvesting operations to ensure contract and environmental compliance.

Reforestation

After the timber is harvested we can assist you in reforesting your property. Government assistance programs often exist to help landowners with cost sharing for reforestation. White Oak can check on your eligibility and help you with the appropriate applications. Based on your needs we will make specific recommendations with cost estimates for the work needed to reforest your property. We have access to dependable contractors that can do any of the site preparation, herbicide application, and tree planting that might be required.

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Mapping

White Oak Forest Management provides Global Positioning System (GPS) and Geographic Information System (GIS) services to collect information from your property and produce accurate maps that will help you enjoy your property and meet your management objectives.

Forest Management Plans

Timber is a long term investment. It is important to know what you have to work with, and how you can best manage your resource over the next several years to achieve your objectives. A forest management plan can assess your current property condition, evaluate different paths to take, and forecast future revenues and costs.

Some landowners may need detailed forest management plans with projected cost and incomes from operations scheduled over many years. Others may only want advice from time to time on specific forest management activities and issues. Our foresters will work with you to customize our approach to meet your management goals.

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Brush Cutting | Mulching

Whether its restoring aesthetics, managing wildlife habitat, or getther forest fuel loads under control, we can help you reduce the understory in your timber stands with our Environmental Brush Cutter – Franklin skidder with Fecon mulching head mounted on the front.