Taeda Forest Management, LLC

06/13/2026

A good growing season fire can’t be beat!

06/10/2026

From gate installation to game plot design, we provide comprehensive services to meet your needs. Full service really does mean full service. Please let us know how we can assist in transforming your property into your ideal piece of paradise.

05/18/2026

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Recent mill closures have made it increasingly difficult to secure loggers for pine thinning operations. ACF members manage millions of acres across Alabama. Let an ACF member leverage this volume of wood to attract an experienced logging professional to keep your forest management activities on schedule.

05/06/2026

The Forest Landowners Association Longleaf Pine Program has cost-share funds available for landowners or landowning companies with property in the historic longleaf pine range to establish new stands of longleaf pine or manage existing stands.

Qualifications include:
- Completed application send to [email protected] by May 15th, 2026
- All planting and management activities must take place between April 2026 – March 2027
- All activities must take place in the historic longleaf pine range
- Photos of planting and/or management activities submitted to FLA
- A shapefile, map, or central coordinate point(s) for project areas required.

Applications are due by May 15, 2026.

To learn more, visit: https://forestlandowners.com/long-leaf-pine-cost-share-funds/

05/05/2026

Just a little bit of what’s been happening around here lately. We are very thankful for the recent rain!!

04/10/2026

Very well said!

🔥 Reading Fuel Moisture: From Online Data to Your Boots 🔥

If you want more consistent, safer prescribed burns, you’ve got to understand fuel moisture—not just temperature and humidity. The best burners combine field observations + drought indices + online fuel moisture maps, along with weather variables, to know exactly what a fire is likely to do.

The question on every burn manager’s mind:
“When should I try to burn?”
Know how to find the answer.

Here’s how to put it all together 👇

🌤 Step 1: Use KBDI (Big Picture Dryness)
The Keetch-Byram Drought Index (KBDI) reflects how dry the soil, duff, and heavy fuels are.

Scale: 0–800 (very wet → extreme drought)

🌾 Dormant Season Burns (Dead Fuels Dominate)
Fire is driven mostly by fine, dead fuels
You can burn under wetter overall conditions

🎯 Ideal KBDI:
200–400 → ✅ Most consistent results
0–200 → Patchy, hard to carry
>400 → ⚠️ Increasing intensity, risk of duff consumption
>500+ → 🚫 Often too dry for safe control

👉 Dead fuels dry quickly, so you don’t need drought to carry fire.

🌿 Growing Season Burns (Live Fuels Dominate)
Fire must overcome high live fuel moisture
You often need drier conditions overall

🎯 Ideal KBDI:
300–500 → ✅ More reliable fire carry in green vegetation
600 → 🚫 High intensity, difficult control, root damage possible

👉 Live fuels require some drought stress to burn effectively.

🌡️ Step 2: Check 10-Hour Fuel Moisture (Online)
➡️ Find 10-hr fuel moisture maps through NWS fire weather pages, WFAS, and other dashboards

What it means:
10-hr fuels = small sticks that control fire spread

🎯 Practical Burn Ranges:
6–10% → ✅ Ideal prescribed fire window
10–15% → 👍 Workable, but less consistent
>15% → ❌ Too wet, poor spread

03/30/2026

Now is the time to book your spraying and tree planting. Call us today and let us put our experience and expertise to work for you!!

03/26/2026

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Alabama Forestry Commission Issues Fire Restrictions for the Weekend

MONTGOMERY, AL — With forecasts calling for elevated wind speeds and a dry front passage across the state, the Alabama Forestry Commission (AFC) strongly discourages any outdoor burning until conditions improve. The agency also points to dropping relative humidity and an increase in wind speed on Saturday as especially concerning.

With the anticipation of critical fire weather conditions, AFC is issuing a Fire Danger Advisory on Friday, March 27. The potential for critical fire weather elevates on Saturday, March 28, increasing the threat issued to a Fire Alert. By Sunday, March 29, the potential for critical fire weather decreases slightly, lowering the threat issued to a Fire Danger Advisory.

The combination of these conditions creates a greater-than-average potential for outdoor fires to escape easily and spread rapidly, taking longer – and more of the agency’s firefighting resources – to contain and ultimately control. Fast-moving wildfires not only destroy property and forests but also threaten the lives of citizens and endanger firefighters.

Prescribed burn permits will be limited to only Certified Prescribed Burn Managers on Friday. Permits for outdoor burning will not be issued to anyone on Saturday. The AFC plans to resume regular permit issuing on Sunday, March 29, provided improved weather conditions. Anyone who burns a field, grassland, or woodland without a burn permit may be subject to prosecution for committing a Class B misdemeanor.

In the last seven days, 147 wildfires have burned approximately 5,600 acres of forestland across the state. This includes a large wildfire in Wilcox County (963 acres), one for 464 acres in Montgomery County, one for 505 acres in Marengo, and four others over 200 acres in Choctaw, Covington, Etowah, and Walker counties.

The Alabama Forestry Commission is the state agency committed to protecting Alabama’s invaluable forest assets as well as its citizens. To report a wildfire, call (800) 392-5679. For more information on the current wildfire situation in the state or any other forestry-related issues, contact your local AFC office or visit the agency website at www.forestry.alabama.gov

03/20/2026

03/19/2026

Bye bye planting season and hello understory burning!! 🔥🔥😍😍 We’ll be dropping matches the next serval months while also checking in on current and upcoming timber sales. It’s also time to be booking this season’s reforestation work! 🌲🌲