Welcome to Stewardship Contracting!

Stewardship End Result Contracting includes natural resource management practices seeking to promote a closer working relationship with local communities in a broad range of activities that improve land conditions. Stewardship contracting is a means for federal agencies to contribute to the development of sustainable rural communities, restore and maintain healthy forest ecosystems, and provide a continuing source of local income and employment.

Stewardship Contracting Helping Control Silent Killer

Why were a few red oak trees in the Boulder Lake Campground on the Lakewood-Laona Ranger District losing their leaves in July and not waiting until Fall? When this happened in 1997, it was the first time symptoms of the Oak Wilt disease had appeared on the Chequamegon-Nicolet National Forest. More...

Interim Directive for Implementing the Tribal Forest Protection Act Issued December 13, 2005

Interim agency direction became effective December 13, 2005, for the Forest Service's implementation of the Tribal Forest Protection Act with stewardship contracting. More...

Final Agency Directive for Stewardship Contracting Issued December 12, 2005

Final agency direction became effective December 12, 2005, for the Forest Service's implementation of stewardship contracting authority. The guidance and procedures in this direction include appropriate use of the authority, stewardship contracting project development and implementation, and monitoring the use of the stewardship contracting authority. More...