Public Lands Toolkit
This toolkit contains various documents related to forest management on public lands that can be modified for your particular property and situation.
Each of the three main categories below has several documents relating to that topic. Click on each link to save whichever document(s) you wish to modify to your computer and then make the necessary changes for your use.
If you have suggestions for additions to the toolkit, contact any member of forestry's public lands team.
Regeneration
- Aerial Herbicide Contract [doc]
- Disc Trenching Prospectus [doc]
- Herbicide Spraying Prospectus [doc]
- Tree Planting Contract [doc]
- Release Contract [doc]
- Herbicide Spraying Contract [doc]
- Trenching Contract [doc]
Subcontracting with cooperators
- Heterobasidion Root Disease Application Contract [doc]
- Timber Marking: Cruising Bid Request [doc]
- Timber Marking: Cruising Contract [doc]
- Timber Marking: Cruising Map Sample [doc]
- Timber Marking: Cruising Specifications [doc]
- Scaling - Request for Bids [doc]
- Scaling Contract [doc]
- Timber Sale Cruising Contract [doc]
Timber Sale Handbook Appendices
- Cover Sheet Prospectus Blank Template (updated March 2022) [docx]
- Cover Sheet Prospectus Template Final With Instructions (updated March 2022)
- Contract Amendment Approval Example
- Contract Amendment Example
- Contract Breach Termination Example Letter
- Letter of Credit Draw Example
- Letter of Credit Release Example
- Performance Bond and LOC Draw Example
- Sampling Error Formulas [docx]
- Spill Kit Guidance
- Cutting Line Agreement Letter (updated Feb 2022) [docx]
- Cutting Line Agreement (updated Feb 2022) [docx]
- S211 Tax Exempt Form Template Letter [docx]
- Workers Compensation Insurance Coverage Information
- Workers Compensation Exemption Affidavit
- Timber Sale Package Review Checklist (April 2022) [docx]
- Timber Sale Operational Considerations (Jan 2022) [docx]
- Sample Timber Sale Prospectus without map [docx]
- Sample map with cutting prescription - portrait
- Sample map with cutting prescription - landscape
- Newspaper Advertisement Sample for Sale of Timber (2022)
Timber sales
- Access Road Agreement [doc]
- Prospectus with Heterobasidion Root Disease Requirement [doc]
- Timber Sale Contract with Heterobasidion Root Disease Requirement [doc]
- Timber Sale Map/Prospectus with Heterobasidion Root Disease Requirement [doc]
- Cutting Line Agreement Letter (Updated May 2018) [doc]
- Cutting Line Agreement (Updated May 2018) [doc]
- Contract Breach Letter (Failure to Perform) [doc]
- Contract Breach Letter (Improper Cutting) [doc]
- Contract Breach Letter (Late Payment) [doc]
- Letter Of Credit Draw Letter Sample (1) [doc]
- Letter Of Credit Draw Letter Sample (2) [doc]
- Payment Schedule Sample [doc]
- County Sale Prospectus - Certified [doc]
- Private Land Access Agreement [doc]
- Lump Sum Sale Contract [doc]
- Shelterwood Calculator [doc]
- Contract Breach Letter (Training) [doc]
- State Sale Prospectus [doc]
- WisFIRS Financials (Training) [doc]