FORECON takes a deep dive into the Big Pine Partnership, a 30+ year forest management project in Western New York where we’ve helped a family balance long-term stewardship with sustainable income. Through adaptive forestry, strategic timber sales, and reinvestment in regeneration, this case study highlights how thoughtful management can protect both a working forest and a multi-generational legacy.

In Northeastern hardwood forests, successful regeneration depends on the right conditions on the forest floor: enough sunlight, limited competition, and space for seedlings to establish. Dense shade, aggressive ferns, beech sprouting, and heavy deer browse often create a bottleneck that prevents young trees like oak and cherry from taking hold. The good news is that with thoughtful, active management, such as thinning, vegetation control, well-planned harvests you can reset those conditions and set your forest up for healthy, long-term growth.

TigerWeb is browser-based forest inventory software for hardwood timberlands, combining GIS mapping, cruise data, growth modeling, and reporting into one platform.