Tax Tips for Forest Landowners: 2025 Tax Year
This annual publication provides general information to support forest landowners and their tax advisors. It updates details from the 2024 version, including content related to new legislation enacted in 2025 that reinstates and makes permanent several tax provisions and adds new incentives for capital investment. Although many key provisions take effect starting in 2026, some are already effective for the 2025 tax year.
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Forest Landowner Support Funded Projects
A view of a forested landscape in Maine, where more than 90% of forests are privately owned and managed. (USDA Forest Service photo)
Private forest landowners manage more than 60% of forests in the United States. Through the Forest Landowner Support initiative, the Forest Service…
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Forest Landowner Support
Forest Service researcher John Schelhas and landowner Eleanor Cooper Brown discuss her family’s land and forests. (Courtesy photo by Dr. Sarah Hitchner, University of Georgia)
Forest Landowner Support provides competitive grant opportunities to entities and organizations for delivering…
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Study shows wood products markets reel long after hurricanes subside
Carbon storage increased and markets recovered fastest when stands were replanted soon after damaged logs were removed. (USDA Forest Service photo by Virginia McDaniel).
When Hurricane Michael made landfall in October 2018, it was a Category 4 storm that damaged more than 6 million acres of forest and…
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Understanding your taxes as a forest owner
A northern hardwood forest. Each year, the Forest Service and its partners release the publication Tax Tips for Forest Landowners. The educational resource is an overview with examples to help landowners understand the tax classifications and provisions when reporting income from timber sales…
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It‘s bat time
Tricolored bats are so tiny that they are called microbats. But they gobble up insects, eating up to half their body weight every night, which is a huge help to farmers and the agricultural industry. (U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service photo by Ann Froschauer)
During this time of the year, while ghosts and…