The first type is to help ensure landowners receive the property tax benefits of their timberland. Generally, these landowners own smaller tracts of land and often live on the property. Aesthetics play a large role and as such, natural means of regeneration are favored with harvests focusing on multiple thinnings instead of “traditional” regeneration harvests followed by replanting operations.
The second type of management plans are generally for larger landowners and landowners whose primary objective is revenue from timber. These plans create a much more intensive plan, often with multiple operations occurring in the same year. Cost/revenue analysis of each operation is also a part of these types of plans.