By Glenn Houts, rural land owner, St. Clair County, Alabama
When you own a large amount of property, keeping your property signs up and visible can be a real headache. For example, let’s say they’re made out of aluminum. You go out there and put your signs up and pretty soon, before you realize it, the [...]
By Curtis Seltzer
In a sour market, sellers should anticipate discounting their asking prices and receiving discounted offers. The odd thing, however, is that in many areas of the country rural property — particularly recreational tracts, farms and timberland — has not been noticeably discounted in asking prices during the last two years. Some sales occur [...]
One of the benefits of working with Land Smart Resources
An Interview With Tom Brickman
1. Question: You started Land Smart Resources. Why?
Brickman: A big lesson I learned working with southern landowners (and being one too) is that many have deep emotional ties to their land. We tend to take it personally. Great granddad bought it in1885, [...]
By Andrew Nix, Forest Management Specialist
Used with Permission
Hardwood management can take many forms depending upon a land owner or land managers goals and objectives for a particular forest stand, compartment and/or forest. The goals of an industrial forester desiring to furnish a paper mill with hardwood chips will differ greatly from a land manager desiring [...]
By John S. Powers, Area Wildlife Biologist
Used with Permission
Forests cover approximately two-thirds of the land in Alabama, encompassing more than 22 million acres. Approximately 71 percent of that acreage is held by private, non-industrial landowners. Moreover, the forest industry is a major component of our state’s economy. Timber harvesting, transportation and exporting of wood, and [...]