Our Services
Preparation of Woodlot Management Plans
Our SNB Field Staff bring years of experience in developing high-quality woodlot management plans. Each plan provides landowners with a comprehensive description and prescription of the various stand types on their property, including access routes and boundary lines.
We then prepare a prioritized action plan tailored to help you achieve your specific ownership and management goals.
SNB offers a wide range of forestry services to support sustainable and productive woodlot management.
One of our professional foresters or forest technicians can prepare a custom management plan based on your objectives as a woodlot owner — giving you one of the most valuable tools for achieving your long-term, sustainable management goals.
Financial assistance for management planning may be available through your local Marketing Board.
Click the button below for a sample of a woodlot management plan.
Boundary Line Reconnaissance
This service is billed at an hourly rate of $65/hour.
One of our qualified Foresters or Forest Technicians can assist you in retracing old or deteriorated boundary lines by carefully piecing together existing evidence — such as barbed wire fences, old blazes, rock walls, and other indicators — and marking the line with flagging tape.
To ensure accuracy, we use a range of professional tools, including a comprehensive GIS system, GPS units, sighting and hand compasses, and string boxes.
As we like to say, good lines make good neighbors.
All evidence located during the retracement process is digitally recorded and archived for your records and future reference.
Cruises & Inventory Appraisals
This service is billed at an hourly rate, with costs that typically decrease per acre as the property size increases — similar to our Management Plan services.
An Inventory Appraisal provides landowners with a detailed assessment of the wood volume on their property, broken down by species and product type for both softwood and hardwood.
The Inventory Appraisal follows the same general format as a timber cruise, but goes one step further by offering an estimate of the current market value of the merchantable timber on your woodlot.
Wood Products Marketing
Effective marketing is an essential part of achieving good forest management on your woodlot.
Wood sales from private woodlots make a significant contribution to both the economy and employment in New Brunswick, while supporting the sustainable management of our forests for future generations.
Most of the markets accessed through SNB are located in New Brunswick, Nova Scotia, and Maine.
Harvest & Land Management Services
This service provides landowners with complete, professional management of their woodlot, tailored to their individual objectives.
Based on the owner’s goals, SNB will coordinate all activities, including:
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Road construction
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Silviculture
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Harvesting
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Recreational development
SNB acts as the owner’s agent, representing the owner’s interests throughout every stage of management.
While this program offers full-service management, landowners may also access it for specific projects, such as the harvest of a single stand. All harvesting operations are conducted using alternative, sustainable methods.
The cost of this service is based on a percentage of revenue, and may vary depending on the activities involved.
Originally designed for non-resident woodlot owners, the Land Management Program has grown in popularity among resident owners as well. The guiding principle remains the same — SNB prepares and implements a management plan on behalf of the owner, ensuring professional oversight and responsible stewardship of the property.
Landowner Information System
SNB maintains a comprehensive Geographic Information System (GIS) that provides detailed ownership information for all parcels of land within the SNB region.
Over the past decade, we have developed a dynamic ArcView GIS database that integrates a wide range of information layers, including:
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Service NB property data
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Road networks
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LiDAR imagery and elevation data
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Forest inventory
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Streams and wetlands
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Aerial photography
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And many other valuable mapping resources
Our GIS system allows us to deliver accurate, up-to-date spatial information to support forest management, planning, and landowner decisions.
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Culvert Sales & Installations
If you are looking to do some road construction or upgrading existing roads on your woodlot, then you have come to the right place to find the culverts that you need for your project. We carry a wide variety of Soleno plastic/polyethylene culverts for forestry road (210kPa) and driveway use (320kPa), ranging in diameters from 6"- 48" and lengths from 10' - 30'. Couplers, geotextiles/filter fabric and silt fencing are available as well. We also have Certified Installers (by the Department of Environment) on staff, that can provide you with a permit and the expertise to install a correctly sized culvert or bridge, properly on your woodlot.
Drone Photo & Video Surveys
Interested in a new 2022 aerial photo, survey or video of your woodlot? We have a licensed drone pilot on staff, that can take HD photos and videos of anything of interest to you such as checking on your camp, harvesting & silviculture inspections, road construction, extreme weather damage assessments, insect and disease surveys, orthorectified aerial photos for your management plan and much more.
Pre-Commercial & Commercial Thinning
Our crews have been providing thinning services for over 30 years now. Whether it be pre-commericial, semi-commericial, commericial or a plantation tending/cleaning, our skilled operators and supervisors are second to none.
Reforestation & Afforestation
Our crews have planted over 1 million seedlings in one year in the past! Each year we plant a variety of softwood seedlings (generally white, red & black spruce and also some white & red pine) that are customized to grow productively on each unique planting site, while also taking future stand diversity and climate change considerations in mind.
Hardwood Plantations
The days of monoculture softwood plantations as being the only method of reforestation and afforestation on private lands are now over. Our forest management professionals have developed a great technique of establishing hardwood plantations, without the worry of wind, rodent or deer damage, to the newly planted hardwoods. We use a 6' tall Plantra tree tube, 7' Plantra fibreglass stake and 37cm cocodisc for total protection and growth enhancement of all hardwood trees.
Special Planting Projects
We are certainly not only limited to only establishing plantations. Shelterbelts, privacy barriers, tree arboretums, reclaimed areas widlife enhancement projects are all projects that we have completed over the past few years.
