ABSTRACT
Non-industrial private forest (NIPF) landowners are owners of generally smaller parcels of forestland and trees who have no permanent association with a wood processing facility. Their individually small forests may support occasional, even periodic, but seldom regular, timber harvests. Their lands include farm woodlots in both developed and developing parts of the world where those may be the sources of both commercial reward and support for household subsistence. The NIPF lands also include conservation woodlands, such as shelterbelts around agricultural properties, and recreational forestlands, such as those on properties used primarily for second homes or tourist lodges and those belonging to hunting or fishing clubs.
