LandBook Second Edition: The small landowner's guide to buying, improving, maintaining, and selling rural land

This version contains Additional content and larger print format than the popular First Edition: An Owner’s Manual for Rural Land, written for the small, private landowner. Lavishly illustrated with dozens of color photos, maps, and diagrams, LandBook provides answers, ideas and advice about the specific concerns and requirements of land ownership including: •the mechanics of buying and selling land •how to buy land very cheaply •tax sale strategies •road building and maintenance •measuring land and estimating acreage •legal descriptions and the PLSS •well drilling •land clearing •pond and lake building •deeds, covenants, and easements • reducing interest costs • rural fencing • foreclosure •prescribed burning •sustainable land management