Odds are, if you have a forest management plan, you need a better one. With land values skyrocketing, many landowners focus solely on lowering their property taxes while ignoring their plan’s impact on long-term value and health. The NC Forest Service writes most of these plans—boilerplate, by-the-book plans, usually with a single-minded focus on industrial-style tree farming (clearcut, spray herbicide, and plant dense pine monocultures). You and your land deserve better. You