Updated: June 28, 2023

Publications to help you better manage your woodlands, including:

  • Developing a forest stewardship plan

  • Measuring your forest

  • Helping your woodland adapt to a changing climate

  • Developing a Forest Stewardship Plan - The Key to Forest Management

    University of Maryland Extension Fact Sheet #625

  • It's Your Legacy: A Maryland landowner's guide to conservation-based estate planning

    - University of Maryland Extension & Maryland Environmental Trust

  • Welcome to Your Woods: Learn about the benefits of owning woods and the resources that are available to help you

    - Forests for the Bay

  • Losing Your Trees to the Sea? Options for Maryland's Coastal Woodland Owners

    - University of Maryland Extension Fact Sheet #2022-0645

  • Helping your woodland adapt to a changing climate

    - Maryland Dept. of Natural Resources Forest Service, University of Maryland Extension, University of Maryland Center for Environmental Science, and US Forest Service (18 pages)

  • Helping your woodland adapt to a changing climate (summary)

    - This one-page, two-sided digest of publication is suitable for workshops and displays.

  • Maryland Consulting & Industrial Foresters Directory

    - University of Maryland Extension Fact Sheet #1059 (revised February 2023)

  • Maryland Small Acreage Professional Foresters Directory

    - University of Maryland Extension Fact Sheet #1067 (revised May 2021)

  • Landowner Liability and Recreational Access and in Maryland

    - University of Maryland Extension Bulletin #357

  • Sources of Information and Guidance for Forest Stewards

    - University of Maryland Extension Fact Sheet #624

  • Maryland Forests: Past, Present & Future

    - University of Maryland Extension Fact Sheet #627

  • Woodland Management: Glossary of Forestry Terms

    - University of Maryland Extension Fact Sheet #620

  • How to Determine Your Property Boundaries

    - University of Maryland Extension Fact Sheet #619

  • Forest Thinning: A Landowner's Tool for Healthy Woods

    - University of Maryland Extension Bulletin #407

  • Measuring Your Forest

    - University of Maryland Extension Fact Sheet #629

  • Measuring Wood Moisture & Drying Time for Hardwood Tree Species

    - University of Maryland Extension Fact Sheet #1074

  • Technical Guide to Crop Tree Release in Hardwood Forests

    - University of Tennessee, University of Kentucky, Southern Forestry Extension, Tennessee Dept. of Agriculture Div. of Forestry

  • Treatments for Improving Degraded Hardwood Stands

    - University of Tennessee Extension