Williams & Associates provides a range of services to help you in the sustainable management of your forestry assets:
Advisory and Planning
- Meet to inspect your property
- Suggest management options (i.e. harvesting, plantings, tending)
Inventory and Assessment
- Conduct inventories assessing the trees and plants, wood volumes, forest health and wildlife habitat
Silviculture
- Develop a management strategy to meet your objectives for your forest and optimize returns over time
Management Plans
- Develop a Forest Management Plan tailored to your needs that meets or exceeds the requirements for the Managed Forest Tax Incentive Program (MFTIP)
- Approve a MFTIP Plan
- Develop strategic and operating plans for municipal or large institutional land owners
Timber Sale Management
- Mark trees for harvest according to silvicultural prescription
- Estimate the volume and value of marked trees
- Advertise sales to buyers and collect bids
- Negotiate contracts that protect the forest and property
- Monitor harvests to ensure contracts are followed and any problems resolved
Tree and Forest Health
- Identify pest problems, determine their severity and if necessary, make recommendations for control
- Forest Health Surveys
- Control invasive trees and shrubs
- TreeAzin injections to protect trees from Emerald Ash Borer
- Arbotect injections to protect trees from Dutch Elm Disease
- Butternut Health Assessments
Forester/Arborist Consultation
- Expert Witness for tree damage or theft, tree values, and woodlot valuation
- Risk Assessment
- Proposed Development Impacts on Trees/Forests
Communications and Forestry Education
- Presentations and workshops
- Training courses and educational materials
- Public Meetings
Planting and Tending
- Design planting for forestry, naturalization, site rehabilitation, or wildlife habitat
- Plant trees or shrubs
- Tend plantations – weed control, pruning, and thinning
