Multi-use forest management entails using the land for multiple applications. The land can be used as a teaching environment, recreational purposes or even for tourism. Auburn University and Yale adopted this principle by creating education centers on the lands in question. Auburn University is home to the 5300 acre Solon Dixon Forestry Education Center, which operates as both a learning center and a timber-production assembly line. Students learn a range of forestry techniques from planting and harvesting both short and long growth trees to forest management.
All timber harvesting is done using sustainable forest practices.
In order to encourage land donorship, the universities should establish landowner education programs . These programs would enable landowners to feel more comfortable donating land, as they would have knowledge of how their land would be used in the future. Although, the purpose of the PFMT program is mainly to educate the landowners in the personal, social, environmental and economic values that can be derived from their land in a sustainable manner, this program can also be used to show how the universities can use their land in the future. If the universities were working through an organization like PFMT and participated or profited only from sustainable forestry practices, landowners would be more likely to donate land in the future. In addition to the recommendations to the universities above, there are also other measures that can be taken to help protect the forest lands Recently the Clinton administration set aside funding for the conservation of forests and endangered species .