"Family Forest Carbon Progam"?

[Torvy]

Thanks. It will be years before we will be planting. Yes, the native counties are a bit south of us, so we don't qualify for some if the programs for restoration.

Oddly enough, our local extension offices are part of TAMU, but most of the foresters come out of SFA. A couple of years ago, SFA became part of the UT system. They were separate systems prior. Logic would have made SFA part of the TAMU system, but logic was not part of the criteria.

 

[hayden]

I looked into this a while ago, but for a northern hardwoods lot. In that case, they pay for you to not cut for some period of time. They allow some cutting, but not much.

All my land is on a forest management plan with long term goals. The FFCP reduced cutting to the point of being unhealthy for the forest, and the cutting that was allowed was too little at a time to get any logger interested. There is a certain minimum to make it worth everyone’s effort to do a cut, and that’s yet another thing you need to balance in the management plan.

The only place I considered it is a lot that had been raped by the previous owner and needed to sit and recover for a few decades. It’s been sitting for 20 years now and still has a lot of recovering to do.

I declined the program.

 

[jyoutz]

Thanks. It will be years before we will be planting. Yes, the native counties are a bit south of us, so we don't qualify for some if the programs for restoration.

Oddly enough, our local extension offices are part of TAMU, but most of the foresters come out of SFA. A couple of years ago, SFA became part of the UT system. They were separate systems prior. Logic would have made SFA part of the TAMU system, but logic was not part of the criteria.

The reason that extension is associated with TAMU is because that is the state land grant university. All land grant universities are responsible for agricultural extension services. But SFA has long been the Society of American Foresters accredited forestry school in Texas. I would suspect that many of the TAMU extension foresters are graduates of SFA.