Steven Bick, ACF CF
is consulting forester and principal in Northeast Forests, LLC. Landowners, investors, researchers,
educators and public officials come to him for informed advice on family
forests, timber sales, stumpage appraisal, income & property taxes,
conservation planning, third-party certification and conservation easement
design & negotiations. Bick has
extensive teaching experience, offering workshops for landowners and forest
enterprises alike.
Contact Information:
Phone: (315) 369-8007 Fax: (206) 312-0147 Mailing Address: P.O. Box 284, Thendara, NY 13472
Email: Info@Northeastforests.com
NEW: A Biomass Demonstration Guide for Northern
Loggers. Video, photos and articles
are included. Click on the cover to go
to the download site.
Planning &
Analysis in Timber Harvesting – Spreadsheet Utility and Instruction
Manual. Click on the cover to download
your free copy.
Excel
spreadsheets are embedded in the PDF
document:
NEW: Download
a PDF of the Adirondack
Forest Owner's Manual
Adirondack
Forest Owner's Manual (14.7 MB)
Projects:
HAB – Harvesting and Biomass - This demonstration project will describe
woody biomass harvesting methods and provide vivid case studies of loggers who
have built their businesses around it. If
you know of an exemplary harvesting operation that should be included, please
contact us.
Forest Enterprise Resource
Project – Follow this link to visit the home page of
FERP and download useful resources.
Products &
Publications:
Timber Tools – The most user-friendly and inexpensive timber cruising
software on the market. It can be purchased from Forestry Suppliers catalog.
Forest Enterprises of the Adirondacks - This book was
published by the non-profit Forest
Enterprise Institute
. The book profiles eight different logging
and sawmill business in the
Adirondacks of New York State. Packed with over 200 photos, this book
illustrates and describes the challenging work and
lives of loggers. The importance of
timber harvesting and processing in the contemporary working landscape is shown
in vivid detail. book can be
purchased on Amazon and in a variety of local bookstores.
The Hardwood Log
Desktop Reference Book – This book is in pdf format and can be downloaded free on this site in the Forest
Enterprise Resource Project section.
Adirondack Forest Owner’s Manual - This book was published by the non-profit Forest
Enterprise Institute. It contains essential
information on forest ownership, management plans, silviculture,
management plans, forest products, timber sales, timber theft, conservation
easements and resources available to forest owner’s in the Adirondacks. The book can be purchased
on Amazon. and in a variety of local bookstores.
The
Landowner's Guide to Conservation Easements - This
book, authored by Steve Bick and Harry Haney, is a must
for landowners who are considering or designing conservation easements for
their land. It's available through Amazon.
Timber Measurements: A Practical Guide for Working in
the Woods –
In this book, Steve Bick describes
forest measurement procedures in straightforward language for those who make a
living buying and selling timber. It is suitable for use as an educational text
in technical schools. The book was published by the Northeastern
Loggers’ Association and is available through them.
Northern Tree, Timber and Woody
Biomass Volume Tables – An essential companion
to the timber measurements book, this is a great collection of tried and true
volume tables, supplemented by new material and many shortcut timber volume
tables.
Forest
Landowner Owner Information Kit - This is one
of the most comprehensive set of free publications ever assembled for forest
owners. Landowners from all over the
northeast will find many of these publications useful and informative. The book was
published by the Northeastern
Loggers’ Association and is available through them.
More Free Downloads:
Log
Rule Tools - This MS Excel-based utility allows you to quickly
calculate log volumes in Doyle, Scribner, International,
Maine, Roy,
Vermont and Custom log rules
simultaneously. Compare prices between rules. Log Rule Tools includes a
demo of our timber cruising software - Timber Tools.
Guidelines
for Management of Private Non-Industrial Forests in the Adirondacks – This free 36 page publication is essential reading if you own land in
or near the Adirondacks.