Chapter 1: Identify the resource(s) to manage and set qualitative and quantitative goals for each. Resources could include diversity of plant and animal communities; timber production; and fish and game mammals and birds.

Chapter 2: Become knowledgeable on biological/ecological characteristics and requirements for each resource, including landscape and human dimension factors that affect them, and desired conditions (qualitative and quantitative) for designing management plans.

Chapter 3: Develop and implement inventory and monitoring programs for each resource, including assessment of initial conditions, and assessment of responses of resources to management steps designed to get them to, and maintain them at, goals.

Chapter 4: Develop comprehensive management plans for selected resources including plans for on-site factors, such as vegetation and deer abundance, which will influence how and whether resource goals and be reached.

Chapter 5: Develop a plan for interacting with other groups of people (neighboring landowners, persons who may want to hunt and fish on their lands, natural resource agency personnel who can helpd align their management with acceptable and legal wildlife and vegetation management practices) - they will need to know how to interact productively with these and other groups of people.

Chapter 6: Obtain management information from established sources such as University Extension Services and landowner groups help contact forestry/wildlife consultants who can provide exert advice on managing forest resources.

Chapter 7: Determine costs of management and learn how to utilize government programs that provide economic support for managing resources.

Appendices describing how to conduct management activities (e.g., monitoring, vegetation management).