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What is forest planning?                     

Before you continue learning about how forest planning works find out more about what forest planning is, what kinds of plans can address forests, how these different plans relate to each other.  Details of how forest planning happens in Wisconsin are on the following pages.
Forest planning is
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Picture (117x92, 3.7Kb) an opportunity to help decide what will happen on the land around you.
 
                                     A typical planning process   
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Forest plans can help communities make recommendations in a rational and informed way on on many issues such as: rezoning a wooded property, whether or not to build or expand major infrastructure into forested areas, acquiring forestland for public use.
Forest planning can include
 Picture (117x92, 3.7Kb) A community or comprehensive plan, that specifically addresses forests. 
  A community plan could include a comprehensive plan, groundwater plan, stormwater plan, transportation plan, biking trail plan, forest plan, and many more.
Click here to see St. Croix County Outdoor Recreation Plan, an example of a community plan.
(From here on we refer to community and comprehensive plans collectively as �community plans�. Community forest planning is the focus of this website).
Picture (117x92, 3.7Kb) An individual property owner�s, or industrial forest management plan.
Click here for examples of this type of plan
Picture (117x92, 3.7Kb) County, State, and National Forest Management Plans for publicly owned forestlands.
  See the County Reference Pages for links to State and National Forest Plans, and some County Forest Plans

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Different levels of forest planning
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Now that you have a better idea of what planning can mean, see how the planning process works. Click on the link below.
 
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