The demand for wood to generate products like lumber, plywood, and paper is growing every year. That means private landowners like you -- who control two-thirds of the commercial forests in East Texas -- have an even greater opportunity to make your timber lands produce an income year after year. But to do so, your timberlands must be managed properly. This means replanting after harvests and applying good forestry practices on a consistent basis.

Through its professional forestry staff, the Dean Tree Team can help you improve the productivity and profitability of your timberlands, increase your income, increase your support of the wood-based economy of Northeast Texas, and make your lands serve a sound environmental role.

Through Texas Forest Product's Management Assistance Program, our foresters will provide you with the same professional forestry skills that have made other timberlands we manage more productive. Our services available include

• Forest Mapping.
• Forest Planning.
• Timber Marking and Harvesting.
• Forest Improvement.
• Timber Damage Appraisal (such as rights of way and natural disasters).
• Advice About Forestry Incentive Programs and Public & Private Timber Management Assistance Funding.
• Assistance in Obtaining Seedlings.
• Assistance in Qualifying for Forest Tax Appraisals.
• Forest Economics and Financial Analysis of Forestry Investments.

Most Dean Management Assistance Programs, including mapping and planning services, are provided at no cost to participants.

The advantages of participating in the Dean Management Assistance Program are numerous. You benefit from the increased productivity and profitability of your lands. Texas Forest Products benefits by increasing the future timber supply in East Texas.

The Texas Forest Products program is flexible and tailored to fit your needs and your land management objectives. Call today to learn how you can become a member of the Dean Tree Team!

Most landowners have a strong interest in the environment. At Texas Forest Products, we share those environmental concerns. Working with your interests in mind, our management plans are designed to enhance your forests, to safeguard your streamside zones, and to improve wildlife habitats. Forestry, especially timber harvesting, can be environmentally sound if done properly -- the Texas Forest Products Way.

To get the Big Picture about your timber and the environment, read our article Wood Products Enhance Environment.

Texas Forest Products manages thousands of acres of its own timberlands in Northeast Texas, and provides landowner assistance services for several thousand more acres. Many landowners are already enrolled in the Texas Forest Products (Dean) landowner assistance program.

Because we live and work here, we will work closer with you than will outside companies who care little about your needs. You'll also have the comfort of knowing that your timber is supporting a locally-owned, family-owned lumber company -- not a giant corporation somewhere else.

Dean has been a home-owned family company since 1938, and is proud to have grown with Northeast Texas. Texas Forest Products has a long tradition of excellence -- effectively managing our natural resources and hiring the best people to make high-quality products.