Introducing Forest Forecast: See What’s Possible for Your Land
For most landowners, their forest is one of their most valuable assets—and one of the hardest to make confident decisions about.
What is your timber worth? Should you harvest now or wait? Will thinning help or hurt your long-term value? What about the deer and turkey you love seeing on your property—does managing for income mean sacrificing habitat?
These are the questions we’ve heard landowners wrestle with for years. And too often, the answers have felt out of reach – locked behind expensive consultations, complex forestry jargon, or carbon contracts that ask you to give up control before you even understand your options.
That’s why we built Forest Forecast with support from the US Forest Service.
What you get
Forest Forecast is a free decision-support tool that helps you see what’s possible for your forest before you commit to anything. Tell us what matters most to you—timber revenue, long-term value growth, deer habitat, turkey habitat, or a combination—and we’ll show you the management paths that could get you there.
Not a prescription. Not a contract. Just clarity.
You’ll see how different choices (harvesting, thinning, or simply letting your forest grow) could play out over the next 30 years, broken down by the individual stands on your property. It’s the kind of analysis that used to be available only to the largest, most sophisticated landowners. Now it’s as simple as pointing to your parcel and telling us your goals.
And when you’re ready to take action, we’re here to connect you with the experts who can help you make it happen.
The Surprise Most Landowners Discover
Here’s something we hear again and again from landowners who use Forest Forecast: the trade-offs aren’t always what they expected.
Many people assume they have to choose—manage for revenue or manage for wildlife. Income or habitat. But that’s often not the case.
Deer and turkey thrive in more open forest conditions. The same thinning that creates sunlight for browse and understory growth also allocates more resources to your highest-value stems, dramatically improving your timber value years down the road.
In other words, managing for the wildlife you care about and building long-term financial value can go hand in hand. Forest Forecast helps you see exactly where those opportunities exist on your land.
How it works
Forest Forecast isn’t something we built overnight. It draws on more than a decade of NCX’s experience working with landowners of all sizes—from families with a few hundred acres to institutional timberland owners managing millions.
Behind the scenes, we’re using the same tools and technology that power our work with the most sophisticated land managers in the country:
- Stand differentiation: We break your forest into distinct management units, not one monolithic block, using remotely sensed data and advanced mapping.
- Forest inventory: We sift through mountains of data to develop a picture of what’s growing in each stand today.
- Growth modeling: We project your forest forward through hundreds of possible scenarios.
- Optimization: We evaluate tens of millions of potential combinations across your property to find the paths that deliver the most of what you care about.
All of that complexity happens behind the scenes. What you see is simple: your goals, your land, your options.
Try It Free
Forest Forecast is available now for landowners in the U.S. South, and we’ll be expanding to more regions in the new year.
There’s no cost and no obligation. Just log into your NCX account—or create one for free—and see what’s possible for your land.
Your forest has been waiting. Now you can see what it’s capable of.
Forest Forecast was funded by a grant from the U.S. Forest Service.