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Wood Lot

  • Prepare and plan
  • Plant trees or seedlings
  • Care and pruning
  • Storm damage and prevention
  • Harvest

  • Tree health
  • Tree diseases & pests

Tree Planting and Care

photo: Person with chaining saw felling a tree Harvesting

Harvesting forest products from your woodlot:

  • Harvest Fact Sheets This is a PDF file. You will need Adobe Acrobat Reader to download it.
  • Balsam Boughs Harvesting
    • Balsam Bough, Lycopodium and Birch Bark Careful Harvest Fact Sheets This is a PDF file. You will need Adobe Acrobat Reader to download it.
    • Balsam Bough Regulations: A pocket guide This is a PDF file. You will need Adobe Acrobat Reader to download it.
  • Birch Top, Cedar and Willow Careful Harvest- Fact Sheets This is a PDF file. You will need Adobe Acrobat Reader to download it.
  • Products from dead or dying trees

Additional information about harvesting:

Minnesota Forest Resources Council external link

  • Forest Management Guidelines external link

MN Minnesota Woods external link

  • Harvesting Timber external link
  • Timber sales on private lands external link



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