Sustainable Forestry Seminars
What are the options for landowners who want to profit from harvesting their forests in an environmentally sound way?
MFPP will hold sustainable forestry management seminars, beginning in Tennessee and Virginia over the next year. The seminars will be held for forestry practitioners, forest landowners, and community leaders, in both classroom and field settings.

Leading the seminar will be Clint Trammel, Forest Manager at Pioneer Forest, a nationally recognized, 154,000 acres working forest in Missouri. The management objectives of Pioneer Forest are to constantly improve the quality and value of the forest through the application of environmentally sound silvicultural practices and, at the same time, make a profit for the owner.

Mr. Trammel’s trainings will demonstrate that timber operations can be economically viable and environmentally sound. He will encourage practices and policies that will advance this type of forestry. The ultimate strategy of this project will be to demonstrate to seminar participants that these management principles will work on the ground in their own forestlands, whether the goal is primary or supplemental income.

“Over 50 years ago, [Pioneer Forest owner] Leo Drey began purchasing ‘overcut’ forest land, turned that land into a sustainable forestry operation and has proven that single-tree selection harvesting can be profitable and environmentally sound. He has influenced forest management and conservation policies, which are now utilized on private, state, and national forest lands.”
Missouri Senator Wayne Goode

"What a wonderful two days of learning and relearning! I feel as though I have heard the Gospel for the first time.

Unless my memory is wrong, in the seventies all we heard about was even-aged management. Though I've never been employed as a forester, I've tried some of those 70's practices on our property, but did not receive the desired benefits.

Rest assured I will now begin implementing the practices you model, and can't wait to start! My wife and I own 115 acres in northern Maries County which looks similar, except for the large timber, to the sites we toured Friday. Best wishes and keep up to good work."
Kevin Runge