VNRC Convenes Unprecedented Forest Roundtable

Update: June 2008

VNRC continues to convene the Forest Roundtable, which originally launched in June 2006, to bring together diverse experts and stakeholders across Vermont to identify the causes of forest fragmentation and parcelization and create workable solutions for landowners, municipalities, and state government to adequately plan for appropriate forestland conservation.

The roundtable's primary focus at the outset was to address issues that relate to parcelization and fragmentation including trends in the real estate market, forestland valuation, property tax policy, land use and conservation planning, family and estate planning, landowner incentive programs such as the Current-Use Program, and the viability of the forest products industry. The goal of the roundtable is to bring diverse perspectives together to share views on the causes of parcelization and forest fragmentation. The roundtable will develop a final set of recommendations to address the rate at which forestland is being developed and fragmented in the state.

Read all about VNRC's Forest Roundtable, check out the minutes and proceedings from them meetings and learn much more about this important work here.