Best Management Practicesfor silviculture

Cathy Hardin

BMP Forester

Florida Division of Forestry

Bienniel Survey

The Division of Forestry has been tasked with monitoring (not enforcing) BMP compliance

This is accomplished through a statewide survey every other year

Results are published in a public report available through your BMP forester

Bienniel Survey -process Fly over each county identifying recent silviculture

activity and logging it using GPS Using property appraiser web sites, determine

landowner. Contact landowner to confirm work has been done

recently, it is for silvicultural purposes, and request permission to do a survey on their property

Perform an audit on the site and inform the landowner of the results

Compile data

Bienniel Survey

Location # of sites

% com-pliance

comments

Chipola Watershed in Jackson county

5 98.361-trash on site and logs in an intermittent drain

2- waterbars not installed properly

Chipola Watershed (all)

7 98.83

Jackson county (all)

10 99.18

What else does DOF do with BMP’s?

Delegated by the Department of

Environmental Protection’s State Water

Quality Program to be responsible for: Development of BMP’s Training in the use of BMP’s Educating the public on the silvicultural

use of BMP’s to protect water quality

Training

Workshops Landowner Industry Public agencies

Courtesy Audits Tailgate training

Educating

Newspaper and magazine articles

Demonstration properties

Presentations to schools and FFA classes

Speaking engagements with conservation groups

Displays at fairs and festivals

Landowner workshops Distributing

compliance reports to county commissions and water management districts.