Forestry Resource Materials

New Opportunities for Forestry-related Conservation Assistance to Private Landowners

The following information was provided at a training workshop on April 23, 2009, at the Indiana NRCS state headquarters. Information will be added / updated as it becomes available.

PowerPoint Presentations

• New Opportunities for Forestry-related Conservation Assistance to Private Landowners>>
  
  
• Indiana Forests Today>>
  
  
• Classified Forests Farm Bill Training>>

U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service

• Habitat Restoration Program on Private Lands
  Contact Jeff Keifer at (812) 334-4261

Natural Resources Conservation Service

• Establishing Eligibility for USDA Programs
• Forestry Farm Bill Matrix: United States Department of Agriculture Practice Payment Assistance (“Cost-Share”) for Indiana Private Non-Industrial Forest Landowners Fiscal year 2009 (October, 2008 – September, 2009)
• WHIP fact sheet
  
• Healthy Forests Reserve Program (HFRP)
  
• EQIP fact sheet
  
• WRP fact sheet
• Adjusted Gross Income Provisions fact sheet
  
• Forestry at a Glance
  
• State Technical Committees at a Glance

Farm Service Agency

• Conservation Reserve Program (CRP)
• CRP Forestry Practices (Excel file)
• Average Adjusted Gross Income fact sheet
• Bottomland Timber Establishment on Wetlands Initiative
• Conservation Reserve Program: State Acres for wildlife Enhancement (SAFE)
  (SAFE) Approved Projects II
• SAFE: State Acres For Wildlife Enhancement brochure
  
• Conservation Reserve Enhancement Program (CREP)
  • For more information on Indiana’s CREP program visit http://www.in.gov/isda/2355.htm
    

• Pigeon-Highland Watershed flyer
• Tippecanoe Watershed flyer
• Upper White River Watershed flyer

Indiana Department of Natural Resources             

Private Landowner Assistance

• Find your District Forester
  
• Wildlife Habitat Cost-share Program
  
• Directory of Professional Foresters
  
• Indiana Classified Forests and Wildlands Program
  
• Forest Management cost-share programs
  
• Economics of long-term forestry management
  
• Forest Management Concepts
  
• The Consultant Forester fact sheet
  
• Timber Stand Improvement fact sheet
  
• Managing Small Woodlots
  
• Certification programs
  
• Indiana Forest Legacy Program
  

Purdue University Extension Publications

Department of Forestry & Natural Resources

• Part 1: A Landowner’s Guide to Sustainable Forestry
• Part 8: Help!

Misc. Resouces

American Tree Farm System

Web Soil Survey

Hardwood Tree Improvement and Regeneration Center
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Indiana Forestry & Woodland Owners Association