Why a Forester?

Services / Advantages / Licensing

A forester can be the forest ecologist, technical advisor, administrative agent, legal counsel, and financial assistant for your woodland.

Services

• Appraisal
• Acquisition
• Litigation
• Protection from erosion, fire, insects, and disease
• Ensure desired regeneration
• Marketing
• Taxation
• Surveying and mapping
• Mark and maintain boundaries to prevent timber theft and trespassing
• Inventory
• Timber sale administration (obtain a fair price)
• Harvesting contracts
• Harvest notification and reporting
• Harvest inspection
• Woods road and skid trail layout
• Mark trees to be cut
• Help you take advantage of cost-share and taxation incentives
• Periodic inspection for absentee landowners
• Agent for permitting access and leasing hunting rights 

• Ownership objectives will be used
  • Increased timber growth
  • Provide wildlife habitat
  • Enhance recreation opportunities
  • Protect water quality
• Better marketing of forest products
  • Likely to realize the fair market price
    • Strong knowledge of quantity and quality
    • Deal confidently and effectively with buyers
• Experienced supervision of harvesting

Maine is on of the few states in the America that licenses foresters. Licensing is to protect the public from unqualified practitioners and to ensure the proper management of the state's forests. To practice forestry on another person's land, one must be either licensed or under the supervision of a licensed forester. Most licenses from other states are recognized in Maine, i.e. New Hampshire licenses. Requirements to be licensed are as follows:

• Education: Graduation from Bachelors or graduate degree in forestry from an approved curriculum. Two years of approved forestry experience may be substituted for each year of undergraduate education lacking.
• Internship: Completion of a 2-year period as an intern under the guidance of a licensed forester. The internship may be substituted for one year of undergraduate education. An internship is not required of applicants with an approved degree and 2 years of approved forestry experience.
• Examination: Successful completion of a written exam. In some circumstances, a oral exam can be substituted.
• Five references, three of which are foresters

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