Program Information

The 500-Year Forest Foundation and forest owners partner to steward, conserve and develop old-growth forests according to the owner’s vision and the Foundation’s Forest Management Principles. 

Services to owners include:

• Preparing  adaptive conservation plans.
• Developing baseline documentation of forests including flora, fauna, and watershed inventories.
• Establishing permanent plots that are reinventoried every ten years.
• Keeping forest records.

• Providing continuing forestry education.

• Auditing and periodically updating the forest plan.

• Maintaining the forest owner partnership through regular contact.

• Helping to find like owners when a forest is passed on outside the family.

What we seek in a 500-Year Forest

• Landowners with strong conservation ethic,
• Forests of 100 acres or more,
• Significant number of trees 70 years or older,
• Exceptions to size and age are made for certain special sites.