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The Manitoba Agro Woodlot Program helps landowners recognize and
take advantage of opportunities that exist on their lands for
renewable woodlot-based enterprise. It encourages development of
skills in logging, milling and marketing wood. It provides an approach
that also maintains environmental values and wildlife habitat. In
short, the goal is sustainable woodlot management.
Sustainable woodlot management offers opportunities for farm income
diversification, value-added processing and jobs. Its an ethical
approach that ensures today’s actions will sustain tomorrow's forests. This approach
can assist farm families to maintain a rural lifestyle and improve the
land they love.
The Manitoba Agro Woodlot Program is based on the belief that, if
wooded lands are properly managed now, they’ll still be providing
economic opportunities and environmental benefits for generations to
come.
If wooded lands are properly managed now, they’ll still be
providing economic opportunities and environmental benefits for
generations to come.
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