Cost-share programs are conceived and developed with the intent of incentivizing landowners to implement management practices deemed valuable to society as a whole. In particular, cost-share programs related to forestry practices are aimed at benefiting our natural resources as well as our economy and are designed to support landowners through a process that can take a decade or more. Virginia's Reforestation of Timberlands Program (RT) is a shining example of a program born, now fifty years ago, outof the necessity to increase the amount of reforestation investment being made by non-industrial forest landowners in order to put our state's pine resource on a sustainable track. Nonetheless, there are pitfalls that need to be addressed so that thesecost-share incentives are not misused. A consulting forester can play a key role in ensuring that their client landowner is connected to the appropriate program, and in the right way.
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