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Washington's Forestry EQIP Program
EQIP: Healthy Forests, Yield
Healthy Profits
Forests provide abundant natural
resource benefits: fish and wildlife habitat, clean air and water, opportunities
for recreation, innate beauty and timber products. These benefits contribute to
everyone’s quality of life.
This site is designed to help forest landowners better understand the benefits
and assistance of the Environmental Quality Incentives Program (EQIP).
Assistance can be provided in protecting the natural resources and improving the
quality of forest stands.
There are several ways NRCS can assist you to maintain, protect, and enhance
your forest productivity through EQIP. As a forest landowner, you decide what
type and level of conservation assistance is appropriate in meeting your forest
management needs. Featured Forest Landowners who
have utilized the EQIP program to keep their forest healthy.
News briefs highlighting additional
"Healthy Forest" successes.
EQIP: Forest Health
EQIP is a voluntary program that
provides technical and financial assistance to agricultural and forest producers
who face threats to soil, water, air, and other natural resources on their land.
The NRCS through EQIP provides an incentive to re-establish forest stands and
treat related natural resource concerns such as: forest health, water quality,
and wildlife habitat. Both technical and financial assistance will be available
to private forest landowners. This program will help in management activities
involving, forest stand improvements, site preparation, slash treatment,
pruning, planting, road rehabilitation for erosion and sediment concerns, wildlife habitat and pest management.
Application process for
EQIP. Your prescription to Keep Your Forest Healthy.
Forestry EQIP Program Partners
Forests provide abundant natural
resource benefits: fish and wildlife habitat, clean air and water, opportunities
for recreation, innate beauty and timber products. These benefits contribute to
everyone’s quality of life. To find out more about forest resources and our "Forestry
Stewardship Partners"...
Another Program Option:
Conservation Stewardship Program (CSP) for private forest landowners
If you’re a private, non-industrial forest landowner who would like
to address natural resource management concerns by implementing
additional conservation practices on your land and if you’d like
to improve or maintain existing stewardship practices, you may be
eligible for financial and technical assistance to do so.
Learn more.
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CSP Forestry Factsheet
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