Reference Library

Forestry

• Good Forestry in the Granite State: Recommended Voluntary Forest Management Practices for New Hampshire
  This guide provides landowners and the professionals who work with them practical recommendations and information on a wide variety of forest resources. First published in 1997, the Good Forestry revision started in 2008 and was completed with the publication of this second edition in 2010. It includes the many changes in practice and knowledge that occurred in the ten-plus years since it was first published. This revision was guided by a 24-member steering committee and involved much public input. more...
• Planning for the Future of Local Forests: A Guide for New Hampshire Towns Using the Forestland Evaluation and Site Assessment (FLESA) Process, 2001 (available from the FLESA Web site)
• Clearcutting. See part 3. Forested Areas of section 406 SENSITIVE RESOURCE PROTECTION AREAS in the Enfield zoning ordinance
• Forest and Trees, UNH Coopreative Extention

Timber Harvesting

• Basal Area Law (RSA 227-J:9) NH Timber Harvesting Law Fact Sheet, University of New Hampshire Cooperative Extension
• Guide to New Hampshire Timber Harvesting Laws University of New Hampshire Cooperative Extension
• RSA 231:40-42 provides a process whereby a landowner who wants to remove "lumber, wood or other material" may petition the selectment to lay out a righ of way for that purpose over someone elses land. The right of way can be created for a fixed length of time and made subject to other conditions.
• New Hampshire Timber Tax Law (DRA)
• An Overview of the N.H. Timber Tax, By Dennis Thorell (DRA NEWSLETTER, Autumn 2006, Volume 1, Issue 3)

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