What to Do

Choose the best one for you. Look for:

• Licensed for the State of Maine: this is mandatory
• Affiliation with the Society of American Foresters (SAF)
• Affiliation with the Association of Consulting Foresters (ACF)
  • Both organizations have ethics codes
• Experience
  • Talk with former clients
  • Ask for a copy of a sample woodlot plan
  • See a woodlot under the management of that forester
• Estimated costs 

Expect

• Adherence to and understanding of your desires
  • Resist the forester imposing their bias
• Alternatives and their consequences presented
• Written agreement
  • fees
  • services
  • obligations
  • terms
  • principal parties

 

Provide the forester

• Evidence that you own the property
• Access to the property

(Yankee Woodlot #8.4)

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