Landscape Forest Stewardship brings together groups of stakeholders to strengthen collaborative and large-scale planning around a priority forest resource to advance key strategies identified in the North Dakota Forest Action Plan.  This provides guidance and best management recommendations to encourage and enable active, long-term forest management across multiple land ownerships to meet individual and collective goals and for the benefit of the forest resource.

Turtle Mountain Region Landscape Forest Stewardship

In March 2022, the North Dakota Forestry Advisory Council convened a working group to develop a landscape forest stewardship plan for the Turtle Mountain region.  This planning effort will establish and strengthen relationships between landowners and natural resource professionals, be implemented adaptively across an array of conditions, landowner objectives, and ownerships, and be used flexibly as forest conditions and objectives change. It will illustrate practical forest management options and support the efforts of natural resource professionals from across sectors to promote conservation initiatives, and be the technical framework for grant funding opportunities at the local, state, and national level for forest management initiatives on private land.

Project Area Map

Get to Know the Turtle Mountain Region Forest

Landscape Stewardship Guide

Check out our newly published "Turtle Mountain Landscape Forest Stewardship Plan"!