Planning for the Future of Your Family's Land Seminar

Good Morning,

 

During several of our Tampa Bay Watershed Forest Working Group (TBWFWG) workshops it has been suggested that more needs to be done to encourage the long-term conservation of existing open land and forest. To this end the TBWFWG is partnering with the Conservation Trust of Florida, the Florida Forest Stewardship Program, University of Florida IFAS and the Tampa Bay Conservancy to offer an interactive seminar for landowners to learn practical steps for passing their land from one generation to the next.  The seminar, Planning for the Future of Your Family's Land, will be held on Tuesday May 11, 2010 from 9:00 AM until 2:30 PM at the Trinkle Center, Plant City, Florida.

 

Many landowners are faced with the challenge of finding ways to provide for their retirement and for their heirs, while insuring that their land is kept in the family for future generations.  Farmers, foresters and ranchers tend to have a lot of value sitting in real estate with limited revenue to support all of one’s family members. Furthermore, there is often pressure to sell off land to development.  Often family members are not certain if or how they may participate in the future management of their land.  The Planning for the Future of Your Family’s Land Seminar is designed to help landowners begin discussions with their family regarding long term hopes and goals for their property and to understand options for keeping land in agriculture and/or forest production.

 

 May 11, 2010; 9:00 am - 2:30 pm, at the Hillsborough Community College Trinkle Center, Plant City, FL 33563. Cost is $15 per person. More information and registration online at http://pfyfl.eventbrite.com/

 

I have attached the press release and a general agenda. Please help by passing this information along to those you work with.

 

Thanks for your help and consideration  .. Rob

 

Rob Northrop

Extension Forester

University of Florida/ Hillsborough Co. Extension

5339 County Road 579

Seffner, Florida  33584

 

813-744-5519 x106

 

"Conservation is not concerned only with the natural resources of the earth. Rightly understood, it includes also the relation of these resources and their scarcity or abundance to the wretchedness or prosperity, the weakness or strength of peoples, their leaning towards war or towards peace, and their number and distribution over the earth." Gifford Pinchot