This report will assist landowners to become more aware of biodiversity, provide a tool to help modify management and assess success of their management activities.

This presentation, along with a primer on biodiversity, are a set of natural indicators -- plants and animals -- whose presence you can track over time. By following these indicators over time, you'll be able to measure the health and diversity of your woodlot.

This workshop, a series of seven modules, covers a wide range of topics pertaining to private woodlot management, and specifically to managing conifer plantations.

Modules:

1. Introduction to Plantation Management
2. Managing Your Plantation
3. Forest Operations
4. Timber Sales and Marketing
5. Biodiversity and Wildlife Values
6. Plantation Problems
7. Restoring Your Plantation

This workshop describes various definitions of the term, and outlines some of the structural and functional characteristics that characterize old-growth forests.

This workshop introduces participants to aspects of quality in logs and sawn lumber that influence the market price.