State And Private Forestry

Intermountain and Northern Regions

Forest Taxation Program      

Description and Benefits

Forest Service and the State Foresters partners to:

• Conducts biennial federal tax conferences, providing technical training to natural resource professionals who work with non-industrial forest landowners, CPA's, and, to a limited extent, landowners themselves
  
• Provides timely, accurate information, including forest taxation, estate planning, and tax incentives.
  
• Engage federal tax experts to share information and conduct tax conferences.

Key Partners

Primary

• State Foresters

Secondary

• State landowners associations
• Consulting Foresters
• Cooperative Extension Service
• State Tax departments
• Resource, Conservation and Development Programs (RC&Ds)

Opportunities for National Forests and Grasslands

• Become more knowledgeable about tax incentives for private landowners to consider when encouraging sound management practices on private lands.
•  Share Forest Service tax publications with private landowners

Program Coordinator for ID, MT, NV, ND, UT

For further assistance contact Margie Ewing.