Ed PatriasLand Lease Manager

10/4/04

Hunting Lease Program(and ATV use)

Potlatch Corporation

Minnesota Resource Management Division

• Organizational Change – Less manufacturing, more resource management

• Improved Environmental Performance - EMS implementation (ISO 14001 and SFI Certified)

• Grow the Property Portfolio business segment• Exploring opportunities to grow the business

Potlatch

Exploring opportunities to grow the business– Land Sale Auctions– Conservation Easements– Hunting Lease Program

Hunting Lease Program• Generate Revenue

• Protect Resource

• Safety

Hunting Lease Program

Generate Revenue• RMD is a Profit Center

- helps cover costs

reforestation

taxes

• Working Forest

Hunting Lease Program

Protect Resource• Develop Formal Relationship with Users of Land

Base

- Reduce Damage (ATVs, 4X4s, garbage, etc.)

- Report Problems

Timber Damage

Road Damage

Garbage

Hunting Lease Program

WHY PEOPLE LEASE: (survey results)

1. Certainty of a Place to Hunt

2. Hunter Safety

3. Tired of Crowds

4. Other Recreational Opportunities

5. More Economical than Land Purchase

Customer Selection

Targeted Customers:• Adjacent/Local Landowners

• Past Users

• Screening

• Potlatch foresters

• Phone interviews

• Crosscheck with DNR Enforcement records

Tract Pricing Two Programs

• Non-bid Tracts

• Presently – 96%

• Price set per tract

• Rates Based on Qualities of Parcel

• Bid Tracts - 2005

• Small % (19 tracts)

• Unique Attributes

Wildlife Management Opportunities

Customer Interest

• Food Plots (trails, logging roads & landings)

• Education

• CWD, Deer and Grouse Management, etc.

• Forkhorn Camps

Rules and Regulations

LIMITS:• No buildings• No sub-leasing• No cutting of trees• No road or trail building• No deer feeding• No permanent deer stands in

trees

Deer Stands

Rules and Regulations

ALLOWED:• Year around use; May 1st -April 30th • Free-standing deer stands (4’ x 6’)• Good neighbor policy • Camping• Posting of property

Posting Property

Rules and Regulations

ACCESS• Primary access routes remain open to

public land

• Roads remain open for resource management

Hunting Lease Program- History

• Prior to ’01 – fee base 330M acres open to public use.

• ’01 – pilot program: 3 tracts – 280 acres

• ’02 – 56 tracts; 6,200 acres

• ’03 – 302 tracts; 34,000 acres

• ’04 – 659 tracts; 81,000 acres

• ’05 – continued growth

Hunting Lease Program

October 1, 2004 – 530 tracts advertised

www.pchhuntingleases.com

Questions?