What is the Role of Natural Resource Professionals in Landowner Legacy Planning
Webinar Details
When:
Jun 25, 2014 1:00 pm US/Eastern
Length: 01:00 (hh:mm)
Advance Registration NOT required.
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Presenter(s):
- Adam Downing - Extension Agent, Agriculture and Natural Resources, Virginia Cooperative Extension
- Paul Catanzaro - Extension Assistant Professor, Department of Environmental Conservation, University of Massachusetts Amherst
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Succession planning, or “legacy planning”, is perhaps the most complicated AND critical activity a landowner should take the time to study and implement. The National Woodland Owner Survey indicates that more than 60 percent of current forestland owners are age 55 or older and nearly half of them have already retired. In the absence of a plan for changes in ownership (legacy planning), private forestlands can be liquidated, parcelized or otherwise jeopardized.
Good silviculture and habitat management are important, but will all be for naught if the resource ends up fragmented and parcelized due to lack of strategic planning from one generation to the next. Many public and private natural resource service providers readily agree, but feel ill equipped to broach this subject or may believe it is “not their place”. Few natural resource professionals have training in the mechanics of legacy planning.
In this webinar we will challenge these notions and explore educational and planning tools and resources for natural resource professionals to use with landowners. We will also capture roundtable participant thoughts and ideas to inform future work in this arena.
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