Corporate Timberland Ownership Change
in Michigan's Upper Peninsula

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12.12.2007

The final report is released! Click here to download a copy.

09.14.2007

The website has been updated extenstively; new digital data sets have been added, as well as material from the public forums

06.21.2007

The community forums are complete; look here to see some of the presentations

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This Michigan land use project was funded by:

Overview

The Upper Peninsula Resource Conservation & Development (UP RC&D) Council sponsored three community forums in partnership with the Luce-West Mackinac, Marquette and Houghton-Keweenaw Conservation Districts to help inform citizens and policy-makers across the UP of research findings in this project.

Presentations were made regarding changes in corporate land ownership over the past several years, the importance of the forest products industry to the U.P. economy, local and state regulatory capacity and market-based tools. Participants heard corporate landowner's perspectives and a review the Michigan Commercial Forest Act. Members of county and township government, planning and zoning board members, conservation district and RC&D board members, owners and managers of mills and other timber products companies, foresters, timberland owners, representatives of land conservancies, recreation and wildlife organizations and other interested individuals were invited and participated in the forums.

Input from forum participants was gathered, summarized and evaluated by the project team. Participants had some great insights and these are incorporated in the final project report.