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 Foresters who have utilized the EQIP program to keep their forest healthy.
 
Below you will find all the Forest Practice Standards EQIP uses to assist forest landowners.

   EQIP: A Prescription for 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 maintenance activities involving, forest stand improvements, site preparation, slash treatment, pruning, planting, wildlife habitat and pest management.

Application process for EQIP. Your prescription to Keep Your Forest Healthy.

Forestry EQIP Program Partners

  Forestry Stewardship Partners

"Healthy Forest" Outreach materials...

Keeping your forest healthy is the best way to ensure a healthy return on your investment. And ensuring a healthy forest begins by implementing your Forest Stewardship Plan.
 
 View all of the "Healthy Forest" outreach materials.

"Healthy Forest" in the news

Listen to or view the "Healthy Forest" public service announcements (PSA's).

News briefs highlighting additional "Healthy Forest" successes.

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