Conservation
Protect habitat, preserve native species, and understand what's worth keeping — with data to back your decisions.
PEI's woodlot management platform See your woodlot.
See your woodlot.
Know your options.
Pursue your goals.
Your detailed stand-by-stand overview is ready — species composition, wood volume, and management options compiled from forest inventory and LiDAR data. Find your woodlot and see it now, for free.
Take your first step.
Most woodlot owners know they should be doing something with their land. The harder part is knowing what, in what order, and whether it's worth it. Forestate gives you a clear starting point — your stands, your conditions, your options — and a platform to manage everything that follows, from forester consultations to project coordination, all organized around your property.
Your woodlot has options.
Most owners sense that — but knowing what to do first, what it could cost, and whether it's worth it is another matter. That uncertainty leads many to delay.
Forestate gives you a clear starting point.
Your overview is already built. See your stands, your conditions, and your realistic options before you talk to anyone — so when you're ready to move, you're moving with confidence.
How It Works
Get Started
Your woodlot overview is already compiled and ready to view. From there, you can complete your Forest Enhancement Program enrolment and be on your way to having your overview verified by a registered forester. However, those with a vision in mind can always skip ahead to project coordination.
- 1 Find your woodlot
- 2 Streamline FEP paperwork
- 3 Verify your data with a licensed forester
- 4 Coordinate from your Forestate Dashboard
Or — skip FEP & consultation and go straight to harvest coordination
Your Management Plan "Well planned work
"Well planned work
is half done."
Your plan is built before you make a single call.
The moment you search your property, you see your species composition, stand conditions, and recommended treatments — compiled from provincial LiDAR and ground-based forest inventory records, before anyone has set foot on your land.
When you're ready, connect with a registered forester to verify and tailor the plan to your goals. From there, Forestate keeps your plan active — treatments scheduled, progress tracked, and your property moving in the direction you've chosen.
Lot 22-A · Stanley Bridge
Species composition
- Balsam Fir Dominant · mature stand · 60–80 yr38%
- White Spruce Co-dominant · mixed age27%
- Red Maple Understory · regenerating18%
- Yellow Birch + Other Scattered · low density17%
- Pre-commercial thinning Stands A & C · est. 12 ha · eligible for FEP grantHigh priority
- Hardwood enrichment planting Stand B · yellow birch + red oak · spring windowRecommended
- Riparian buffer assessment North boundary · 80m watercourse setback reviewRecommended
- Eligible for Forest Enhancement ProgramEst. 70% grant
- Forester verification required to unlockAction needed
Forest Intelligence Know your forest
Know your forest
at a glance.
Built from four provincial data sources — LiDAR, forest inventory, parcel registry, and FEP treatment history — Forestate covers 87,826 classified stands across 245,874 ha of PEI forest inventory. The result is a single, coherent picture of your woodlot, with management guidance tailored for every stand on your property.
- Species composition & stand structure
- Development stage & forest health indicators
- Plausible silvicultural treatments
- FEP eligibility & estimated grant coverage
- Watercourse setbacks & riparian notes
Based on Provincial LiDAR · Enhanced Forest Inventory (EFI) · PEI Parcel Registry · FEP Treatment History
For Woodlot Owners Whatever your reason for owning land,
Whatever your reason for owning land,
Forestate works towards your goals.
No two woodlot owners are in the same situation. Some are planning a harvest. Some are protecting habitat. Some just want to know what they have. Wherever you're starting from, Forestate works from there.
Recreation
Trail networks, wildlife corridors, hunting grounds — a managed forest supports all of it better than an unmanaged one.
Timber value
Understand what your forest is worth now and what it could yield — before any commercial conversation begins.
Legacy
Most woodlot owners think about who comes next. A documented, well-managed property is worth more and easier to transfer when the time comes.
Forest Enhancement Program · Application
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Forest Enhancement Program Streamlining access to the
Streamlining access to the
Forest Enhancement Program.
The Forest Enhancement Program (FEP) funds tree planting, thinning, and reduced-impact logging for PEI's private woodlot owners — carried out under an approved forestry plan, with no long-term commitment. Eligible properties can receive hundreds of dollars of public investment per acre. Getting started requires a 10-year management plan and advance filing for every treatment. Forestate handles it end-to-end.
- Major cost savings. Eligible silviculture work — thinning, planting, site prep — can be substantially funded through the FEP. Forestate shows your estimated grant coverage before you've committed to anything.
- Simplified filing. Just add your digital signature. Because Forestate already holds your stand data, species composition, and treatment recommendations, the FEP application isn't built from scratch. Your forester reviews and submits — you don't start with a blank form.
- Forestate tracks what gets approved and scheduled. Once enrolled, your FEP treatments appear on your plan timeline. You'll know what's coming, when, and what it means for your forest — without chasing paperwork.
- No obligation to enroll. No long-term commitment. Your woodlot overview and management plan are yours regardless. Some landowners use Forestate purely to understand their forest and manage independently.
The Team Built by people who know
Built by people who know
PEI's forests — and its data.
Forestate was founded by a forester and a data architect — with the on-the-ground PEI experience and technical depth to build something that actually works at scale.
Jonathan Schurman
Ph.D. Forestry · University of TorontoFrom PEI, with a doctorate in forestry from the University of Toronto. Jonathan spent three years consulting PEI woodlot owners directly, and two years with the PEI Department of Environment — giving him direct familiarity with how provincial programs are designed and administered.
Juraj Milcak
BSc. Mathematics · University of TorontoA data architect and software engineer with over a decade inside a major financial institution, working with sensitive data at scale. Juraj architected and built the Forestate beta from provincial forest inventory data — and it's live with PEI woodlot owners today.
Get Started Your woodlot data is already waiting.
Your woodlot data is already waiting.
See it in minutes, for free.
Your stand data is already in the system — compiled from provincial LiDAR, forest inventory, and FEP records. Search your property, see what you have, and take it from there. No cost, no commitment.