Water Quality Advocacy Toolkit

Below are advocacy materials to help you show how water quality, forests, and family-wage jobs will suffer by changing EPA’s traditional treatment of forestry as a nonpoint source under the Clean Water Act.

Advocacy Materials

How Forestry is Regulated Under the Clean Water Act

Water Quality is Effectively Protected Through BMPs

NEDC v. Brown Litigation Summary

Private Forests and Water Quality Q&A

Working Forests Support Jobs, Water Quality, and Conservation

Letter from 44 House Members to EPA (PDF)

Legislation: H.R. 2541 and S. 1369

Wyden and Crapo statements for the Congressional Record (PDF)

Research

BMP White Paper (PDF)

Forest Roads/BMP Fact Sheet (Word)

Southern Regional BMP Report 2008 (PDF)

State BMP Implementation Worksheet (Excel)

Journal of Forestry: Trends for Forestry Best Management Practices Implementation (PDF)

State Water Resource Programs for Silviculture – National Association of State Foresters (PDF)

LATEST NEWS

NAFO’s recommendations respond to the Biogenic Carbon Emissions Panel’s draft recommendations on EPA’s accounting framework for carbon emissions. More
A new report provides a concise primer to policy makers on the forest carbon cycle, carbon accounting, biomass energy emissions and other critical topics. More
New federal legislation will help timberland owners avoid costly permit fees for logging roads, U.S. Reps. Jaime Herrera Beutler and Kurt Schrader announced Monday. Under the new provision, a 35-year-old U.S. Environmental Protection Agency policy would be extended for another year. It would shield timber companies from the cost of designing stormwater control systems for logging roads under the federal Clean Water Act. Landowners will not be required to get federal permits to build logging roads. More

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Take action to conserve private forests.

NAFO’s recommendations respond to the Biogenic Carbon Emissions Panel’s draft recommendations on EPA’s accounting framework for carbon emissions. More
A new report provides a concise primer to policy makers on the forest carbon cycle, carbon accounting, biomass energy emissions and other critical topics. More
New federal legislation will help timberland owners avoid costly permit fees for logging roads, U.S. Reps. Jaime Herrera Beutler and Kurt Schrader announced Monday. Under the new provision, a 35-year-old U.S. Environmental Protection Agency policy would be extended for another year. It would shield timber companies from the cost of designing stormwater control systems for logging roads under the federal Clean Water Act. Landowners will not be required to get federal permits to build logging roads. More