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: 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.