A professional forester can help you accomplish your management goals while ensuring that the forestry practices used protect the value and future of your woodland. Whether or not you choose to work with a DNR forester or a cooperating forester will…
The Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources Division of Forestry is not the only organization that collects aerial photography in Wisconsin. Many municipal, county, state and federal organizations collect imagery each year with different project…
2022 - 2024Beginning in fall 2022, the Division of Forestry discontinued generation of prints or print files and focuses on digital imagery products. Imagery continues to be collected in the fall at 18 inches ground resolution and available as…
Launch the WisFIRS Public Lands application (for county foresters). Launch the WisFIRS Private Lands application (for certified plan writers).
Forest Habitat Type Classification is a site classification system based on the identification of repeatable patterns in understory vegetation. Habitat types enable forest managers to characterize site potential, disturbance regimes and successional…
Trials are conducted to see if a new approach works better than others used in the past. In the case of silviculture, there may be questions about direct seeding a particular species, prescribed burning, scarification techniques, thinning techniques…
Index and Forward Index [PDF] Foreword - Handbook Application [PDF] I. Ecological Tools Site Productivity [PDF] Forest Habitat Type Classification System [PDF] II.
Forest regeneration, the process of renewing tree cover by establishing seedlings and saplings, is one of the most basic and important elements of sustainable forest management. Successful and desirable regeneration is vital to forest health and…
A legal description is used to describe the location of land in legal documents (for example, the deed to your land).The Public Land Survey System (PLSS) is used in legal descriptions. It employs a grid system based on township, range and…
These documents are detailed management guidelines and should be followed by cooperating foresters for any type of forest management activities.