Estate Planning

Estate planning is something we should all do and instead, tends to be the thing we avoid most. Will your heirs be able to afford to keep your forestland estate? Who will manage your forestland once your estate is passed on? Learn more about forestland taxes, conservation easements, and forest certification, as well as other issues, to best plan for your forestland's future.

Publications

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• Estate Planning for Forest Landowners: What Will Become of Your Timberland?
• Taxing Forest Property: Analysis of Alternative Methods and Impacts in Idaho
• Toward Sustainable Forest Management Part I: Certification Programs

Articles

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• Are You Paying Too Many Taxes?
• Conservation Easements Can Benefit Landowners
• Financial Record Keeping for Forestland Owners: Developing a Good System
• Forest Certification Goes Mainstream
• Managing Your Forestland Estate
• Property Tax Designation for Idaho's Private Forest Landowners
• Which Forestland Property Tax?

Other Resources

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Certified Forests

• Sustainable Forestry Initiative (SFI)
• The American Tree Farm System
• The Forest Stewardship Council (FSC)

Conservation Easements

• Idaho Foundation for Parks and Lands
• Inland Northwest Land Trust
• Palouse Land Trust
• The Nature Conservancy (Idaho Field Office)
• The Trust for Public Lands
• The Wilderness Land Trust
• Wood River Land Trust
• Vital Ground Foundation

Finances

• Idaho State Tax Commission
• The National Timber Tax Website
• USDA Forest Service Cooperative Forestry