Technical Assistance Procedure
How Referrals Work
- Landowner contacts CD Forester to set up a site visit for property evaluation.
- During site visit, CD Forester can discuss all questions you have regarding your property. They will also give recommendations for how to manage the property to meet your goals.
- If a landowner requires further assistance that cannot be provided by CD Forester (such as writing a management plan, negotiating a timber harvest, etc.), CD Forester can provide the landowner with a list of individuals that can provide the required service. OR
- The landowner can request a referral by CD Forester to natural resource professionals that can provide the required service.
How Referrals Work
- CD Forester can provide referrals to the private sector on behalf of a landowner.
- CD Forester will send out a request for the landowner’s required service (management plan, timber harvest, consultation, etc.) by email and online.
- None of the landowner’s personal information (name, address, etc.) will be listed in the referral.
- When a forestry professional wants to take on a landowner’s job, they will contact CD Forester directly to express their interest.
- CD Forester will contact the landowner and provide them with the forestry professional’s contact information (via email or snail mail).
- The landowner can then contact the forestry professionals on their list to discuss the job further.
Landowners can choose resource professionals that provide a specific service and contact them directly by phone, mail, or email.
Explanation of each Service Provider
Industrial Forester – foresters who focus in procurement of timber from a wide variety of sources, meaning that they focus in a specific timber type and try to procure wood for a specific mill or mills. These types of foresters can also sometime write management plans for their clients.
Logger – a professional that specializes in the removal of timber.
Consulting Forester – a forester that works with private forest landowners in most or all aspects of forestry including negotiating timber sales, writing management plans, marking timber, conducting forest inventory, etc.
Explanation of each Service Provider
Industrial Forester – foresters who focus in procurement of timber from a wide variety of sources, meaning that they focus in a specific timber type and try to procure wood for a specific mill or mills. These types of foresters can also sometime write management plans for their clients.
Logger – a professional that specializes in the removal of timber.
Consulting Forester – a forester that works with private forest landowners in most or all aspects of forestry including negotiating timber sales, writing management plans, marking timber, conducting forest inventory, etc.
Active Referrals for Foresters
Landowner referred
Referral Number: 071-23-10
*Site Visit Date: 9/14/23
*Location: Presque Isle County, Allis T34N R02E
*Buildings: Yes, a home
*Parcel Size: 17 acres
*Soil Types: Onaway sand, 2-18% slopes; Brevort mucky loamy sand; Cathro muck; Hessel loam. Nearly all of the property is mapped as Onaway sand.
*Water Bodies/Wetlands: Seasonally wet depressions.
*Road/Access: Direct access from M-68.
*Cover Types: Smaller component northern hardwoods, sugar maple and basswood heavy, mostly pole sized. Larger component with mature bigtooth and quaking aspen throughout (7-20” DBH) and a semi-continuous midstory of pole-sized balsam fir. Good component of healthy pole-sized ash throughout. Scattered large red and white pine (15-30” DBH). Scattered sawlog-sized white spruce.
*Landowner Objectives: Harvest to initiate regeneration and knock down/remove balsam fir midstory. Blankets of sugar maple seedlings are present in some areas. Regenerate aspen and provide more light for the growth of existing sugar maple seedlings and the establishment of additional pine.
*Landowner Timeline: As soon as practical, willing to wait for a nearby sale to make this harvest economical if necessary.
*Referral Close: 9/28/23
*Site Visit Date: 9/14/23
*Location: Presque Isle County, Allis T34N R02E
*Buildings: Yes, a home
*Parcel Size: 17 acres
*Soil Types: Onaway sand, 2-18% slopes; Brevort mucky loamy sand; Cathro muck; Hessel loam. Nearly all of the property is mapped as Onaway sand.
*Water Bodies/Wetlands: Seasonally wet depressions.
*Road/Access: Direct access from M-68.
*Cover Types: Smaller component northern hardwoods, sugar maple and basswood heavy, mostly pole sized. Larger component with mature bigtooth and quaking aspen throughout (7-20” DBH) and a semi-continuous midstory of pole-sized balsam fir. Good component of healthy pole-sized ash throughout. Scattered large red and white pine (15-30” DBH). Scattered sawlog-sized white spruce.
*Landowner Objectives: Harvest to initiate regeneration and knock down/remove balsam fir midstory. Blankets of sugar maple seedlings are present in some areas. Regenerate aspen and provide more light for the growth of existing sugar maple seedlings and the establishment of additional pine.
*Landowner Timeline: As soon as practical, willing to wait for a nearby sale to make this harvest economical if necessary.
*Referral Close: 9/28/23
Referral Number: 061-23-01
*Site Visit Date: 8/28/23
*Location: Cheboygan, Aloha T36N, R1W
*Buildings: Yes, small cabin
*Parcel Size: 80 acres (4x 20 acre parcels)
*Soil Types: Greatest portions Cheboygan loamy sand (0-6% slopes), Mancelona sand (0-6% slopes), and Blue Lake loamy sand (0-6% slopes). Smaller portions of Kalkaska sand, Rubicon sand, Ingalls loamy sand, Ogemaw sand, Croswell sand, Dawson peat, and Brimley very fine sandy loam.
*Water Bodies/Wetlands: Some seasonally wet uplands. Swamp in the southeast corner of the property, easily avoided.
*Road/Access: Easy access off of a county road and well-maintained two-track.
*Cover Types: Approximately half of the property is northern hardwoods, sugar maple dominated, mature. Approximately 10+ acres of mature/overmature aspen. Pockets of hemlock-yellow birch-red maple. Ironwood abundant in many areas. 70 acres of merchantable timber overall.
*Landowner Objectives: Interested in a management plan as well as a well-supervised harvest. Timber tax is a concern; will likely want to establish their timber basis. Wants high quality forest left for their successor.
*Landowner Timeline: As soon as possible.
*Referral Close: 9/11/2023
*Site Visit Date: 8/28/23
*Location: Cheboygan, Aloha T36N, R1W
*Buildings: Yes, small cabin
*Parcel Size: 80 acres (4x 20 acre parcels)
*Soil Types: Greatest portions Cheboygan loamy sand (0-6% slopes), Mancelona sand (0-6% slopes), and Blue Lake loamy sand (0-6% slopes). Smaller portions of Kalkaska sand, Rubicon sand, Ingalls loamy sand, Ogemaw sand, Croswell sand, Dawson peat, and Brimley very fine sandy loam.
*Water Bodies/Wetlands: Some seasonally wet uplands. Swamp in the southeast corner of the property, easily avoided.
*Road/Access: Easy access off of a county road and well-maintained two-track.
*Cover Types: Approximately half of the property is northern hardwoods, sugar maple dominated, mature. Approximately 10+ acres of mature/overmature aspen. Pockets of hemlock-yellow birch-red maple. Ironwood abundant in many areas. 70 acres of merchantable timber overall.
*Landowner Objectives: Interested in a management plan as well as a well-supervised harvest. Timber tax is a concern; will likely want to establish their timber basis. Wants high quality forest left for their successor.
*Landowner Timeline: As soon as possible.
*Referral Close: 9/11/2023
Referral 071-22-13
*Site Visit Date: 07/13/2022
*Location: Presque Isle, Ocqueoc T36N R3E
*Buildings: Yes
*Parcel Size: 35-40 acres of timber
*Soil Types: East Lake sand, Graycalm sand, 15-35% slope in spots
*Water Bodies/Wetlands: None observed
*Road/Access: Access very close to US-23 and N Ocqueoc Rd
*Cover Types: White and red oak dominated with mixed hardwood, red and white pine. Most of the property has not been harvested in well over 50 years.
*Landowner Objectives: Harvest
*Landowner Timeline: None specified
*Referral Close: 07/28/2022
*Site Visit Date: 07/13/2022
*Location: Presque Isle, Ocqueoc T36N R3E
*Buildings: Yes
*Parcel Size: 35-40 acres of timber
*Soil Types: East Lake sand, Graycalm sand, 15-35% slope in spots
*Water Bodies/Wetlands: None observed
*Road/Access: Access very close to US-23 and N Ocqueoc Rd
*Cover Types: White and red oak dominated with mixed hardwood, red and white pine. Most of the property has not been harvested in well over 50 years.
*Landowner Objectives: Harvest
*Landowner Timeline: None specified
*Referral Close: 07/28/2022
Referral 071-22-12
*Site Visit Date: 06/27/2022
*Location: Presque Isle, Pulawski
*Buildings: Yes
*Parcel Size: 160 acres
*Soil Types: Alpena gravelly sandy loam, Kiva-Alpena complex
*Water Bodies/Wetlands: Little Trout River passes through the western boundary. Landowner noted some areas of the property that become flooded temporarily during the spring.
*Road/Access: Access off M-65 and US-23. There are trails present throughout the property that may need to be slightly widened.
*Cover Types: Northern Hardwood, aspen. The property was cut over approximately 40-50 years prior, so the aspen is mature and ready for harvest. The hardwoods are a mix of mature and mid-second growth. Sugar maple dominant with some basswood, red oak and ironwood present. About 80 acres of the property has merchantable timber.
*Landowner Objectives: Harvest
*Landowner Timeline: None specified
*Referral Close: 07/11/2022
*Site Visit Date: 06/27/2022
*Location: Presque Isle, Pulawski
*Buildings: Yes
*Parcel Size: 160 acres
*Soil Types: Alpena gravelly sandy loam, Kiva-Alpena complex
*Water Bodies/Wetlands: Little Trout River passes through the western boundary. Landowner noted some areas of the property that become flooded temporarily during the spring.
*Road/Access: Access off M-65 and US-23. There are trails present throughout the property that may need to be slightly widened.
*Cover Types: Northern Hardwood, aspen. The property was cut over approximately 40-50 years prior, so the aspen is mature and ready for harvest. The hardwoods are a mix of mature and mid-second growth. Sugar maple dominant with some basswood, red oak and ironwood present. About 80 acres of the property has merchantable timber.
*Landowner Objectives: Harvest
*Landowner Timeline: None specified
*Referral Close: 07/11/2022
Referral 071-22-11
*Site Visit Date: 06/16/2022
*Location: Presque Isle, Bearinger
*Buildings: No
*Parcel Size: 151 acres
*Soil Types: Tawas muck, property is within a half mile of Black Lake
*Water Bodies/Wetlands: The entire property is lowland, with standing water on most of the property. Cedar swamp present.
*Road/Access: Access near Town Hall Hwy and US-23
*Cover Types: Aspen (40 years post harvest), hardwood and cedar. The aspen is at maturity, but is uneven as far as size distribution.
*Landowner Objectives: Harvest, plan, possible QFP
*Landowner Timeline: None specified
*Referral Close: 07/13/2022
*Site Visit Date: 06/16/2022
*Location: Presque Isle, Bearinger
*Buildings: No
*Parcel Size: 151 acres
*Soil Types: Tawas muck, property is within a half mile of Black Lake
*Water Bodies/Wetlands: The entire property is lowland, with standing water on most of the property. Cedar swamp present.
*Road/Access: Access near Town Hall Hwy and US-23
*Cover Types: Aspen (40 years post harvest), hardwood and cedar. The aspen is at maturity, but is uneven as far as size distribution.
*Landowner Objectives: Harvest, plan, possible QFP
*Landowner Timeline: None specified
*Referral Close: 07/13/2022