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Project Pivotal-Rig

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The Pivotal Tracts within Project Pivotal-Rig A potential project of Rural Nelson

Past efforts to describe Pivotal Tracts well have been difficult. Here I make another attempt at a very brief sketch. Pivotal Tracts are private lands of owners managed under contract for them and the region by Pivotal-Rig, Inc. they are intensively managed since each is best fitted to achieve one or more of the objectives of the long list of enterprises. Absentee land owners often have their lands abuses and have great needs for services as they seek to retain their lands for recreation, pride of ownership, estate component, and improving longterm investment.

Many of these Pivotal Tracts may be lands of corporations. Some are lands of absentee owners. Most are larger than 100 acres but there are likely to be a few exceptions. While many have forests, it is unreasonable to fail to manage them as a total system of fields, forests, lakes, roadways, mines, and home and garden sites.

Concentrating on forests, fallow fields, and lakes and ponds, the systems developed are to assist landowners to improve their "lands" (lands and waters, all resources), into profitable, well-managed systems that benefit their families or corporations as well as all of the people of the region. Careful attention is given to owner objectives and the limits they may place (often resulting in failing to achieve full-scale profitability). Given the importance of forests, attention must be paid to the surrounding fields and pastures, to the lakes and ponds, even the potentials for pest-wildlife in gardens. Land as a " total system" is the view taken.

Fundamentally, the big difference between the Pivotal Strategy and other types of forestry or wildlife management is that the landowner cooperator get annual income or its equivalent, rather than being the victim of the failed sequence of " plant, wait many years, and then cut timber" which has produced the boom-and-bust cycle of the private small woodland owner of the region. Pivotal Tracts are private lands of owners who willingly join Pivotal-Rig, Inc. and who allow their lands and waters to be placed under superior management and use. Their taxes are paid, annual incomes are made, and their lands increase in value and environmental quality, and they participate in the development of the entire region. They are relieved of the difficulties, costs, arrangements, and required knowledge needed to protect and manage the resources of their lands for profit. "Handle it! Handle it!" and Pivotal-Rig, Inc. does so at no extra cost to the owner and demonstrates gains to the owner. It works for the owners ... and for the County and its people.

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