Green Belt Management plans

Forestry management plans, timber harvesting and Insurance cover are essential elements to protecting and enhancing your forestry assets. With your professional management plan, you will have a projection on the growth and volume present in your forest, and how that will look into the future. This also provides the platform to make better and more informed decisions on your forestry and woodland and plan into the future.

Green belt continues to innovate in our delivery of professional management plans - we use advanced technology to assist our field operations, and to provide you, the forest owner, with more comfort and detail in your prized asset.

Your forest is valuable, is a terrific legacy and something to be nurtured and proud of. Taking care of it, understanding it and working on it, when right to do so, is in your hands. We will help you. Green Belt will design a plan of activities to improve the value and performance of your plantation. This includes timber harvesting. Harvesting will add valuable volume to your timber, which will ultimately bring significant revenue from a clear fell harvest. A felling licence and forest road are necessary for these operations - Green Belt will apply for these on your behalf.

Ahead of this, you need to protect your investment - the best way to do this is through the Green Belt master insurance policy - an exclusive policy that many of our clients are part of, at a considerable cost saving.

 

A forest thrives under constant and consistent professional management. From initial establishment and seeking approval from the Forest Service, through to silvicultural maintenance with thinning and harvesting, to clearfell or continuous cover forestry, Green Belt's expert foresters are located nationally to support your forest activities.

Green Belt has developed a Four Year Forestry Management Contract which is specifically designed for farmers. The company will undertake to establish a forest for the farmer utilising the grant paid by the Forest Service. The Four Year Forestry Management Contract relieves you of all the risks in establishing your plantation and leaves you free to concentrate on your main farming activities.

The forest is maintained in optimal condition thus ensuring the plantation reaches the approved standard required to attract the appropriate grant.

Farmers who plant in association with Green Belt have the convenience and security which this contract offers. The contract includes:

  • Fencing of the planted area
  • Preparation of the ground
  • Draining of land
  • Supply and planting of trees
  • Fertilising
  • Vegetation Control
  • Pest control
  • Maintenance of woodland records

In addition, Green Belt will undertake to sell any forest it establishes, at any time if required, to one of its many Irish and foreign investors.

Professional Management for Increased Value

Professional forest management can increase the value adding potential at each stage of the forest growth. Green Belt has a comprehensive forest management package to maximise returns which includes:

  • Initial site selection
  • Species selection
  • Provenence selection
  • Seed selection
  • Selection of silvicultural regime
  • Thinning intensity and timing
  • Genetic enhancement
  • Fertilisation
  • Timing of clearfell