2002 Forestry BMP Monitoring Summary

In 2002, 85 timber sales from six different landowner categories were evaluated. Eight teams comprised of a variety of interest groups and areas of expertise were assembled for statewide monitoring. Team members were trained on how to monitor BMPs at a calibration workshop held in July 2002.

Statewide, BMP monitoring teams found that BMPs were being applied correctly more often and with greater consistency than estimated during the 1995-1997 study. It was found that NIPF landowners were applying BMPs on their timber harvests at about the same level as 1995-1997. NIPF landowners enrolled in the DNR tax law program applied BMPs correctly more often than those not enrolled in the program. A possible outreach opportunity has been identified for those NIPF landowners not enrolled in a tax law program.

One weakness of the 2002 monitoring effort was landowner sample size. Statewide and NIPF landowner group estimates of BMP application and BMP effectiveness were the only estimates that were really reliable. Not enough sales were sampled from other landowner categories to achieve statistical significance. We identified that more monitoring was needed in order to infer better estimates for other landowner categories.

2002 BMP Monitoring Report (PDF, 1.86MB)