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DTSTART:20090518T160000Z
DTEND:20090518T170000Z
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SUMMARY:Intergenerational transfers and long-range planning
DESCRIPTION:Have you considered what is to happen to your forestland a
 fter you pass away? If the answer is ‘no\,’ you’re not alone.  L
 ess than five percent (possibly significantly less) of the 10 million-
 plus family forest owners have planned for the long-term disposition o
 f their forests.  Yet failures to plan can lead to unsustainable pract
 ices or even forced liquidation of family forests.  Consider\, too\, t
 hat if the current title-holders fail to plan instead leaving forests 
 entrusted to heirs\, the probability of ever effecting the necessary l
 ong-range planning drops to near zero.  Forests owned by families that
  do not develop long-term\, inter-generational plans are often sold to
  the highest bidder\, or divided among family members\, or converted t
 o non-forest uses to pay estate transfer costs and to settle the divis
 ion of assets among family.  Larger forest parcels are destined to bec
 ome smaller or pacelized\, and ‘parcelization of land leads to fragm
 entation of purpose.’  Sub-divided forests are more apt to become ho
 using\, rather than continuing to provide vital habitats and productiv
 e woodlands that help support sustainable communities.  Unabated\, par
 celization will eventually convert forested landscapes into a facade\;
  a caricature of what they once were.  Thom McEvoy\, Professor\, Autho
 r and Vermont Extension Forester will discuss the effects of parceliza
 tion of forests on fragmentation of purpose and describe planning stra
 tegies that owners can use to keep lands intact and in the family.
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