National Best Management Practices for Water Quality ...

United States Department of Agriculture

Forest Service

FS-990a

April 2012

National Best Management Practices for Water Quality Management on National Forest System Lands

Volume 1: National Core BMP Technical Guide

United States Department of Agriculture

Forest Service

FS-990a

April 2012

National Best Management Practices for Water Quality Management on National Forest System Lands

Volume 1: National Core BMP Technical Guide

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Front cover photo: Taylor Fork Creek, Gallatin National Forest, near Big Sky, MT, by David Scovell, engineer, Rogue River-Siskiyou National Forest. Photo taken in August 2005 in the Madison Range, just west of Yellowstone National Park.

Acknowledgments

This document is the culmination of an effort that has spanned many years. Countless numbers of Forest Service, U.S. Department of Agriculture, resource personnel at all levels of the agency, including National Forest System, State and Private Forestry, and Research and Development, have participated to make the vision of a National Best Management Practices (BMP) Program a reality. Thank you to all those who provided guidance as part of the steering committee, those who participated in the teams that drafted the initial version of the BMPs, those who developed the BMP monitoring protocols, and the many people across the agency who reviewed drafts of this

document and provided comments. Particular thanks goes to Joan Carlson of the Rocky Mountain Regional Office for her dedication to the development and completion of this document.

Thank you also to our partners--the Association of Clean Water Administrators (formerly the Association of State and Inter-State Water Pollution Control Administrators), the Intertribal Timber Council, the National Association of State Foresters, the National Congress of American Indians, and the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency--who reviewed the document and provided helpful comments.

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