Forestry
Practicing Leading-Edge Forestry

RMS directly staffs and fully integrates all of the key forestry functions and processes required to optimize timberland returns.
Scroll for MoreOur Forest Management Team stays on the leading edge of forestry innovation, technology development and knowledge transfer.
This integrated and intensive approach enables us to manage tens of thousands of timber stands globally for investors – assets that each have their own biological characteristics and financial profiles.
In every part of the world where RMS invests, we customize our forestry approaches to local markets and conditions – leveraging, extending and adapting our systems and processes to the demands of each operating and business environment.
Charlie Cornish, Executive Vice President of North and South America Operations, discusses RMS’ forest management capabilities.
An Integrated Manager
RMS executes all of the value-adding functions in the forestland investment value chain.
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Investment Management
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Acquisitions & Dispositions
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Environmental, Social & Governance
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Forest Inventory
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Econometrics & Forecasting
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Harvest Scheduling
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Advanced Silviculture Implementation
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Marketing & Timber Sales
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Research & Technology Transfer
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Geographic Information System
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Accounting
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Legal & Compliance
How RMS Practices Forestry
Forest management entails establishing and executing a succession of forestry activities and regimes over the biological and economic life cycle of a forest to improve its productive capacity and financial performance. This life cycle, and the ways in which RMS manages it, are illustrated and explained below.
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Forest Planning
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Site Preparation & Reforestation
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Growth Management
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Risk Management
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Harvest Management