FOR-96
Jeffrey W. Stringer and Amy F. Thompson, University of Kentucky Department of Forestry, and W. Cary Perkins, Kentucky Division of Forestry
The Kentucky Agriculture Water Quality Act specifies that landowners must have a written water quality plan that states which best management practices (BMPs) are to be used in forestry operations on their property. Landowners engaged in forestry or agriculture operations and owning 10 or more acres of contiguous property are responsible for writing a plan and ensuring that the plan is implemented. This guide provides information on how to write a water quality plan for woodland operations.1
1 For further information on the Kentucky Agriculture Water Quality Act plan, particularly as it relates to owners engaged in both farming and woodlands operations, contact your county Cooperative Extension Service office or your county conservation district office and consult the Kentucky Agriculture Water Quality Authority Producers' Workbook.
Before preparing your plan, read the introductory sections on Water Quality Protection and Types of Water Pollution. These sections provide basic information on the pollutants common to woodland activities and how they can be addressed by proper use of appropriate BMPs. You should also review the BMPs and their minimum requirements. While not all BMPs will be required in a plan, reviewing them will help you to understand the range of practices that can be included in your plan and implemented on your property.
All parties involved in woodland operations, including landowners, loggers, and silvicultural operators, are responsible for water quality protection. Forestry operations include both timber harvesting and traditional silvicultural activities. Silvicultural activities are those used to grow and care for forests and trees. Activities such as tree planting, thinning, timber stand improvement, and any work done to encourage tree regeneration after a timber harvest are considered silvicultural operations.
One of the most effective methods of protecting water quality during forestry operations is to use BMPs. BMPs are guidelines and techniques that, when used properly, can help reduce impact to our waters. They do this by decreasing erosion and the creation of muddy water, keeping chemicals and fluids out of streams, and limiting changes in the woods next to streams. BMP activities include properly designing stream crossings, reshaping and seeding logging roads, trails, and log landings, installing structures to reduce erosion, and reducing use of equipment, chemicals, and fertilizers near streams, ponds, and sinkholes.
Water pollution from woodland operations is generally considered nonpoint source (NPS) pollution. NPS pollution is a type of pollution not readily identifiable as coming from any one point. Examples of water pollution from forestry activities are given below:
The selection of BMPs is based on the type of operation, topography (the shape of the land), and the type of water bodies or drainage channels present. Many times landowners may be directly involved in silvicultural activities and can implement the BMPs themselves. However, in the case of timber harvesting and other large and intensive silvicultural operations, most BMPs are implemented by the logger or silvicultural operator.
The Kentucky Agriculture Water Quality Act specifies that landowners with 10 acres or more who are involved in agriculture and forestry production have a written water quality plan for their operations. Christmas tree producers and those having orchards are required to use crop BMPs and should refer to the Crops section in the Kentucky Agriculture Water Quality Authority Producers' Workbook, which is available from most agricultural agencies and conservation district offices.
If your operation contains other types of agricultural activities, you also should refer to the Kentucky Agriculture Water Quality Authority Producers' Workbook. This document outlines the BMPs needed for all types of agriculture and forestry operations. The producers' workbook helps those engaged in multiple activities determine which BMPs are needed for each type of operation. If in the future you add new activities to your operation, your should then update your water quality plan.
This guide will take you step-by-step through the process of writing your water quality plan.
All operations must meet Kentucky water quality standards.
The act requires that persons owning 10 or more contiguous acres engaging in agriculture or silvicultural (forestry) operations must have an individual written water quality plan, regardless of the size of operation. The individual plan must state the best management practices as specified in the State Agriculture Water Quality Plan that will be used to protect water quality. The owner is also responsible for ensuring that the plan will be carried out. This publication was designed to assist landowners in writing a water quality plan for silvicultural operations that will meet the requirements specified in the state plan.
The Forest Conservation Act has provisions for enabling the monitoring of Kentucky's forest resources, promoting forest and forestry education, and regulating timber harvesting operations. The latter requires that a Kentucky Master Logger be on-site and in charge of commercial logging operations (with the exception of operations where animals are used as the primary means of skidding). The act also requires that all timber harvesting operators use appropriate best management practices for protection of water quality as specified by the Kentucky Agriculture Water Quality Act. The Kentucky Division of Forestry is charged with the development of administrative regulations and enforcement of the act.
Kentucky water quality standards (401 KAR 5:029) require the use of BMPs to protect high-quality waters and outstanding national resources waters listed in 401 KAR 5:030. In addition, outstanding resource waters that support federally listed threatened and endangered species require protection (see 401 KAR 5:031).
The Kentucky Wild Rivers Act and associated regulations give special protection to streams designated as "wild rivers," including regulation of silvicultural activity. Before undertaking any silvicultural activity in a corridor of a designated wild river, the landowner or logger should contact the Wild Rivers Program of the Kentucky Division of Water for applicable regulations and instructions.
The Kentucky Division of Water has authority over the placement of debris (including logging slash) in floodplains of perennial streams that have a drainage area larger than one-square mile. The Division of Water advises that as long as the BMPs for Streamside Management Zones and logging debris are followed, landowners and loggers will be considered in compliance with floodplain regulations that address debris. If these BMPs are not followed, the Kentucky Division of Water can institute enforcement proceedings.
All structures (bridges, berms, or other construction that could obstruct flood flows) that are to be constructed in the floodplain of a perennial stream that drains more than one-square mile require a floodplain permit from the Kentucky Division of Water.
The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers regulates all filling or draining of wetlands, streams, lakes, or other bodies of water. Normal ongoing silvicultural activities, including building and maintaining forest roads, do not require individual permits, providing certain conditions are met, including adherence to the federal baseline BMPs for forest roads. For detailed information on the silvicultural exemption, contact the Kentucky Division of Forestry.
The Kentucky Cave Protection Act offers protection to any sinkhole, pit, karst window, and/or sinking stream that has an opening large enough for a person to enter a black zone. The Federal Cave Protection Act is used to manage nonrenewable cave resources on federal lands. Management techniques include buffer zones around sinkhole and cave entrances to provide food sources for cave life, regulate thermal variations, and prevent sedimentation. Extremely sensitive karst systems can include the entire recharge area as a buffer zone.
The Kentucky State Nature Preserves Commission maintains the list of Kentucky plants and animals that are considered endangered, threatened, and of special concern. The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service administers the federal Endangered Species Act of 1973, as amended in 1990, and the 1991 Candidate Review. Many species protected by these acts live in caves and can be threatened by pollutants entering sinkholes.
Any sinkhole that has been modified to receive additional storm water runoff can be classified as a Class V Underground Injection Control Well, which must be registered and/or permitted by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency Underground Injection Control Program.
Kentucky surface water statutes and regulations have defined subterranean streams that flow underground and have discrete banks and channels, such as cave streams, as surface waters. Several karst groundwater basins in the Mammoth Cave National Park that extend well outside of the Park's boundary have been designated as Outstanding Resource Waters and receive the same special protection of species as the blind shrimp in Mammoth Cave.
The federal and state Wellhead Protection Programs are developing karst groundwater basin protection plans for public water supplies that use karst springs or groundwater as their water source.
The application of some organic materials, such as sludge, can require a permit for compliance with federal and/or state regulations. For more information regarding permits required for the application of sludge, contact the Kentucky Division of Waste Management.
Use only pesticides approved by the Environmental Protection Agency for use in Kentucky. Follow all pesticide label directions. Application of some chemicals can require applicator certification and/or licensing.
1. As part of any timber harvesting and/or silvicultural operation, will you or the logger need to construct, use, and/or maintain roads, skid trails, and/or log landings on your property?
Helpful hint: Logging roads, skid trails, and landings generally are used in timber harvesting operations in Kentucky, and this question is normally answered yes.
Yes No
If yes: BMPs No. 1 and No. 5
2. Does the area where the silvicultural operation is to occur contain perennial or intermittent streams or other bodies of water?
Helpful hint: Perennial streams flow all year round. Intermittent streams have defined banks and flow only during the wet portions of the year and directly after rainfall in dry summer months.
Yes No
If yes: BMPs No. 3 and No. 5
3. Does the boundary or tract where the silvicultural operation is to occur contain sinkholes?
Yes No
If yes: BMPs No. 4 and No. 5
4. In conjunction with your silvicultural operation, are there disturbed or otherwise bare areas (including roads, trails, and landings) that need to be revegetated to prevent and/or control soil erosion?
Helpful hint: This question pertains to areas where bare mineral soil is exposed and susceptible to erosion. Generally, landings, roads, and highly used skid trails need revegetation. This question usually does not pertain to areas where groundcover is being killed to aid in tree planting or to encourage natural reforestation.
Yes No
If yes: BMP No. 2
5. Will you conduct any silvicultural activities in areas classified as wetlands by the Natural Resources Conservation Service (NRCS) or the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers?
Helpful hint: It is sometimes difficult for an untrained individual to determine if an area is a wetland. Many bottomland hardwood forests on floodplains are considered wetlands. Generally, soils that stay wet near the surface indicate a wetland. If you have an area that you suspect is a wetland, you can contact the Corps of Engineers, your local district conservationist with the Natural Resources Conservation Service, your county Cooperative Extension Service agent, or personnel from the Kentucky Division of Forestry for help.
Yes No
If yes: BMP No. 10
6. Will you, an operator, or a vendor working for you engage in site preparation activities prior to, or as part of, reforestation practices on your property?
Helpful hint: Site preparation activities are forestry practices used to help establish a new crop of trees, whether it be in a forested area or in a field. These activities include shearing, raking, and drum chopping tree tops and stumps and similar practices completed with heavy machinery as well as prescribed burning and the use of herbicides to control competing vegetation.
Yes No
If yes: BMPs No. 6 and No. 9
7. Will you or a contractor working for you be applying pesticides, including herbicides or fertilizers, in connection with your silvicultural activities?
Helpful hint: This question usually pertains to silvicultural operations for culturing tree plantings or timber stand improvement work. Timber harvesting operations might include the use of fertilizers to help ensure successful revegetation of roads, trails, or landings. If this is the case, use only BMP No. 7, which is the fertilizer BMP. BMP No. 8 is for pesticides, which include herbicides.
Yes No
If yes: BMPs No. 7 and No. 8, and consult the Pesticides and Fertilizer section of the Kentucky Agriculture Water Quality Authority Producers' Workbook (Appendix D). This section deals with storage, mixing, and disposal and generally reflects label specifications.
8. Do you allow livestock to have access to your forested areas or to forested areas in streamside corridors or around lakes or ponds?
Helpful hint: The Kentucky Agriculture Water Quality Act requires that you adhere to livestock BMPs if cattle are grazing around streams in woodlands. However, if you are concerned about timber production, you should limit livestock access to woodlands, because they will damage standing trees and destroy seedlings in the understory.
Yes No
If yes, refer to the appropriate BMP in the Livestock section of the Kentucky Agriculture Water Quality Authority Producers' Workbook.
9. Will low water stream crossings be constructed, or will gravel, sediments, or logjams be removed from a stream?
Yes No
If yes, refer to the Streams and Other Waters section of the Kentucky Agriculture Water Quality Authority Producers' Workbook.
10. Will you conduct a prescribed fire, or will you construct fire lines?
Yes No
If yes: BMPs No. 12 and 13. Also contact the Kentucky Division of Forestry and refer to Kentucky Forest Practices Guidelines for Water Quality Management (FOR-67).
Attach additional forms if more than two woodland locations are involved.
This form, when completed, meets the written water quality plan requirements of the Kentucky Agriculture Water Quality Act. Retain this plan and submit the Self-Certification Form inserted in this publication to the office of your county conservation district.
The BMPs that are checked off should be implemented in the appropriate areas. Minimum requirements for the BMPs are found in the Kentucky Agriculture Water Quality Authority Producers' Workbook and the statewide water quality plan developed by the Kentucky Agriculture Water Quality Authority. BMP details and further information are found in Kentucky Forest Practice Guidelines for Water Quality Management (FOR-67) and associated field guides and publications, including Field Guide to Best Management Practices for Timber Harvesting in Kentucky (FOR-69), available from your county Cooperative Extension office or the Kentucky Division of Forestry district office.
| Woodland Location (from Stewardship Plan if available) | ||||
| BMP Number | BMP Checkoff | Date to Complete | Date Completed | |
| 1 | Access Roads, Trails, and Landings | |||
| 2 | Vegetative Establishment | |||
| 3 | Streamside Management Zones | |||
| 4 | Sinkholes | |||
| 5 | Logging Debris | |||
| 6 | Tree Planting by Machine | |||
| 7 | Fertilizers | |||
| 8 | Application of Pesticides | |||
| 9 | Site Preparation | |||
| 10 | Wetlands | |||
| Sensitive Area Checklist | |||
| o | Perennial Stream | o | Wetland |
| o | Intermittent Stream | o | Kentucky Wild River |
| o | Ephemeral Channel | o | Coldwater Aquatic Habitat |
| o | Sinkhole | o | Outstanding Natural Resource Waters |
This space has been provided to allow you to sketch the property that designates areas where different operations are being undertaken. A forest stewardship map can be used as well.
A full description of Kentucky's silvicultural best management practices can be found in Kentucky Forest Practice Guidelines for Water Quality Management (FOR-67). The BMPs were developed to guide silvicultural and timber harvesting operations in a manner that helps protect water quality. The following is a list of the Kentucky Agriculture Water Quality Act minimum requirements associated with each of the silvicultural best management practices.
The minimum requirements must be implemented (if the associated activity is occurring on your property) in order to be in compliance with the Kentucky Agriculture Water Quality Act. Under some circumstances, it may be necessary to implement practices above and beyond the minimum requirements to avoid water quality problems. To obtain detailed information concerning the silvicultural best management practices, you should refer to the Kentucky Forest Practice Guidelines for Water Quality Management (FOR-67) and the associated BMP guides such as the Field Guide to Best Management Practices for Timber Harvesting in Kentucky (FOR-69).
Kentucky Agriculture Water Quality Act Minimum Requirements:
The landowner should ensure that loggers or others working on the property:
Refer to Regulatory Requirements A, D, and E (see page 3 for a list of regulatory requirements).
Kentucky Agriculture Water Quality Act Minimum Requirements:
The landowner should ensure that after activities are completed by the operator:
Refer to Regulatory Requirements A and B.
Kentucky Agriculture Water Quality Act Minimum Requirements:
The landowner should ensure that during operations:
Refer to Regulatory Requirements A, B, and C.
Kentucky Agriculture Water Quality Act Minimum Requirements:
The landowner should ensure that operators:
Refer to Regulatory Requirements F, G, H, I, and J.
Kentucky Agriculture Water Quality Act Minimum Requirements:
The landowner should:
Refer to Regulatory Requirements A, B, and C.
Kentucky Agriculture Water Quality Act Minimum Requirements:
The landowner should:
Refer to Regulatory Requirements A and B.
Kentucky Agriculture Water Quality Act Minimum Requirements:
The landowner should:
Refer to Regulatory Requirements A, B, and K.
Kentucky Agriculture Water Quality Act Minimum Requirements:
The landowner should:
Refer to Regulatory Requirements A, B, and L.
Kentucky Agriculture Water Quality Act Minimum Requirements
The landowner should:
Refer to Regulatory Requirements A and B.
| Table 9-1. Site Preparation Methods Impacting Water Quality | |
| Site Preparation Method | Hazard Level |
| Herbicide injection | Little or no hazard |
| Clear felling with chain saw | Little or no hazard |
| Herbicide spraying | Has potential if BMP No. 8 "Application of Pesticides" not followed |
| Drum chopping | Medium potential |
| Drum chopping with burning | Medium potential |
| Shearing and windrowing | High potential |
| Disking | High potential |
Kentucky Agriculture Water Quality Act Minimum Requirements:
The landowner should ensure that loggers:
Refer to Regulatory Requirements A and B.
The following BMPs are not included in the Kentucky Agriculture Water Quality Act for silviculture, but they are good management practices that should be followed to protect water quality and maintain forest productivity.
Livestock should be managed in such a way that enough cover to protect the soil from erosion is maintained and sedimentation of nearby bodies of water is prevented. It is important to protect, maintain, or improve the quantity and quality of the plant resources, to maintain soil productivity, and to prevent soil compaction.
Fire lines and fire lanes are constructed to restrict and control wildfire or to manage areas to be treated with prescribed burning in such a way as to minimize soil erosion and protect nearby bodies of water from sedimentation.
Prescribed burning is used to modify a forest stand or to reduce forest residue to some desired level in a manner that minimizes soil erosion and protects nearby bodies of water from sedimentation. Prescribed burning can be used on forested sites for reduction of hazardous accumulations of fuel to lessen wildfire potential, for improvement of wildlife habitat, for discouragement of undesirable plant growth that can inhibit natural or artificial regeneration of a stand of trees, and for creation of a seedbed favorable to natural or direct seeding reforestation.
A temporary or permanent road over which timber is transported from a loading site to a public road. Also known as a haul road.
For agriculture operations, the most effective, practical, and economical means of reducing and preventing water pollution provided by the United States Department of Agriculture/Natural Resources Conservation Service (USDA/NRCS), the Kentucky Soil and Water Conservation Commission, and the Kentucky Agriculture Water Quality Authority. Best management practices shall establish a minimum level of acceptable quality for planning, siting, designing, installing, operating, and maintaining these practices.
Area adjacent to a stream or other body of water where minimal management activity takes place in order to protect the stream or body of water from nonpoint source pollution.
Body of water that has characteristically cool water and is considered high-quality trout water by the Kentucky Division of Water.
The unwanted, unused, and generally unmerchantable accumulation of woody material, such as large limbs, tops, cull logs, and stumps, that remain as forest residue after timber harvesting.
See concentrated logging slash.
Deep, reverse grade water control structure used in the retirement of skid trails.
Structure that acts as a water catchment and drainage channel on access roads and skid trails, including pipe culverts, open-faced culverts, and reverse-grade drainage structures.
Process of crushing debris or breaking it apart in order to flatten residual trees and branches.
A channel formed by water during or immediately after precipitation events as indicated by an absence of forest litter and exposure of mineral soil, which conveys surface water directly or indirectly to surface or subsurface streams.
The process of cutting down standing trees.
The slope of a road or trail expressed as percentage of change in elevation per unit of distance traveled.
Has a well-defined channel but flows only during the wet portions of the year. Denoted by a broken blue line on a U.S. Geological Survey topographic map.
Areas with limestone bedrock that are prone to have sinkholes and/or underground stream systems.
A place in or near the forest where logs are gathered for further processing or transport. The act of depositing a turn of logs into a landing or log deck.
See landing.
The unwanted, unused, and generally unmerchantable accumulation of woody material, such as large limbs, tops, cull logs, and stumps, or other logging operation waste products, that remain as forest residue after timber harvesting.
See access road.
Pollution that comes from a number of sources spread over a wide geographic area. Generally, each source only contributes a small amount of contamination, but the sum impact may be substantial. Agriculture, mining, forestry, urban runoff, and construction all contribute to nonpoint source pollution. A single source for the pollution is not readily identifiable.
Composition of the dominant trees in a forest, which shade the understory and forest floor.
Has a well-defined channel and flows all year or nearly all year under typical climatic conditions. Denoted by a continuous blue line appearing on a U.S. Geological Survey 7.5 minute topographic map.
Chemicals, including insecticides, herbicides, fungicides, rodenticides, and nematocides, used to destroy, prevent, or control woody or herbaceous vegetation and forest pests.
A closed furrow produced by a mechanical tree planter.
The result of erosion. It is the solid material, both mineral and organic, that is in suspension, being transported, and creates pollution problems.
The process of sediments entering and settling to the bottom of a stream or other body of water.
Any activity, following accepted silvicultural principles, whereby the tree species constituting forests are tended, harvested, and replaced.
Open or closed circular depressions in karst (limestone) areas where surface waters flow to join an underground drainage system.
A stream that disappears from the surface and flows underground instead of draining into another aboveground body of water.
Practices used to prepare a site for planting or regenerating trees. These practices are used to reduce or eliminate unwanted and/or competing vegetation that would threaten the survival or proper development of planted tree seedlings.
Short-distance moving of logs or felled trees from the stump to a point of loading.
A temporary pathway used to drag felled trees or logs to a landing or concentration point, resulting in duff (the partially decomposed organic materials of the forest floor) and ground disturbance sufficient to cause erosion.
A slow-moving channel of water in or near a wetland.
A strip of land adjacent to either side of a stream or surrounding a lake or pond. These areas are carefully maintained and managed to protect water quality by filtering sediment, to provide shade, to maintain water temperatures, and to trap logging debris. They also provide wildlife travel lanes. Also referred to as a riparian area.
Used in a loose sense to indicate the place where a sinking stream goes underground. Swallow holes come in many sizes and shapes. Some are places where major streams abruptly go underground, either vertically through their beds or laterally into their banks. Some swallow holes are pits, some are open cave entrances, and some are choked; others are simply reaches of stream bed where water is lost. Upstream from the swallow hole the stream flows at its full volume; downstream the stream is reduced, or the bed is dry. In between is an intermediate reach, where the water is lost gradually in the stream bed alluvium. Often there is no "hole" associated with the swallet.
See landing.
See deep water break.
Geographic areas that characteristically support vegetation suited to life in saturated soil conditions and have hydric (wet) soils and some saturation or flooding during the growing season.
I understand my obligations under the Agriculture Water Quality Act to implement the applicable requirements of the statewide water quality plan, and I have developed a Forest Stewardship Water Quality Plan for my individual operations based on its guidance. I am aware of the need to review my plan periodically to record those practices or measures that I have completed and to modify my plan as a major changes are made in my operation. If my management practices are questioned by regulatory agencies or through civil actions, these updated records will serve as documentation of my efforts to improve and protect natural resources. This plan will entitle me to:
• The Corrective Measures Process. A process to correct any identified water quality problems that may be the result of activities conducted on my operation.
• Availability of technical assistance through the conservation districts to develop or modify as needed my water quality plan, practices, and/or measures or to recommend changes to the statewide water quality plan.
• Financial assistance needed for implementation of my plan as resources become available.
• Possible extension of time for compliance with a water quality plan based on the availability of technical and financial assistance.
I would like to be kept informed, through the conservation districts mailing list, of new information as it becomes available regarding: resource needs, water quality, environmental conditions, new or more effective best management practices, new and beneficial technologies, and new or expanded sources of technical and financial assistance such as cost share or incentive programs.
County Conservation District, KY
(Farm I.D. #)
(Name, Landowner/Land User)
(Date) (Address)
Instructions: File this form with your county conservation district (see phone numbers on back). While you can attach a copy of your water quality plan, it is not required. Regardless, make sure you keep a copy of your plan.
Adair 270-384-6628
Allen 270-237-5363
Anderson 502-839-5667
Ballard 270-665-5994
Barren 270-678-6811
Bath 606-674-2121
Bell 606-337-6320
Boone 859-586-7903
Bourbon 859-987-2311
Boyd 606-325-3138
Boyle 859-238-7461
Bracken 606-735-3256
Breathitt 606-666-5138
Breckinridge 270-756-2776
Bullitt 502-543-7810
Butler 270-526-3784
Caldwell 270-365-5533
Calloway 270-735-5151
Campbell 859-635-9587
Carlisle 270-628-5429
Carroll 502-732-0070
Carter 606-474-5184
Casey 606-787-2017
Christian 270-885-8688
Clark 859-744-2322
Clay 606-598-5132
Clinton 606-387-5196
Crittenden 270-965-3921
Cumberland 270-864-2606
Daviess 270-685-1707
Edmonson 270-597-2761
Elliott 606-738-6222
Estill 606-723-5104
Fayette 859-233-2761
Fleming 606-845-9387
Floyd 606-886-3128
Franklin 502-223-2024
Fulton 270-236-2418
Gallatin 859-567-4441
Garrad 859-792-2620
Grant 859-823-2291
Graves 270-247-9529
Grayson 270-259-3738
Green 270-932-4244
Greenup 606-473-7194
Hancock 270-927-6622
Hardin 270-765-2273
Harlan 606-573-2838
Harrison 859-234-5876
Hart 270-524-5482
Henderson 270-827-5157
Henry 502-845-2890
Hickman 270-653-6457
Hopkins 270-821-4464
Jackson 606-287-8314
Jefferson 502-499-1900
Jessamine 859-885-4673
Johnson 606-789-5263
Kenton 859-586-7903
Knott 606-785-0113
Knox 606-546-3393
LaRue 270-358-3132
Laurel 606-864-2180
Lawrence 606-673-3800
Lee 606-464-8480
Leslie 606-672-2357
Letcher 606-633-4448
Lewis 606-796-3831
Lincoln 606-365-9418
Livingston 270-928-2149
Logan 270-726-2618
Lyon 270-388-7653
McCracken 270-554-5242
McCreary 606-376-5017
McLean 270-273-3655
Madison 859-624-1981
Magoffin 606-349-1919
Marion 270-692-2431
Marshall 270-527-3236
Martin 606-298-3595
Mason 606-759-5570
Meade 270-422-3183
Menifee 606-768-2541
Mercer 859-734-6889
Metcalfe 270-432-3391
Monroe 270-487-6589
Montgomery 859-498-5654
Morgan 606-743-3194
Muhlenberg 270-338-3743
Nelson 502-348-3363
Nicholas 859-289-2234
Ohio 270-298-3340
Oldam 502-222-5123
Owen 502-484-2719
Owsley 606-593-5183
Pendleton 859-654-3376
Perry 606-436-3731
Pike 606-437-7879
Powell 606-663-2896
Pulaski 606-678-5416
Robertson 606-724-5822
Rockcastle 606-256-2541
Rowan 606-784-5375
Russell 270-343-3343
Scott 502-863-2466
Shelby 502-633-3640
Simpson 270-586-5914
Spencer 502-477-2867
Taylor 270-465-8554
Todd 270-265-2867
Trigg 270-522-3304
Trimble 502-255-7114
Union 270-389-1981
Warren 270-834-1112
Washington 859-336-7777
Wayne 606-348-9385
Webster 270-639-5763
Whitley 606-549-3242
Wolfe 606-668-3113
Woodford 859-873-4941
Kentucky Agriculture Water Quality Authority Producers' Workbook. 1997. Frankfort, Ky.: Kentucky Division of Conservation.
Kentucky Forest Practice Guidelines for Water Quality Management (FOR-67). 1997. Lexington, Ky.: University of Kentucky Cooperative Extension Service.
Field Guide to Best Management Practices for Timber Harvesting Operations in Kentucky (FOR-69). 1998. Lexington, Ky.: University of Kentucky Cooperative Extension Service.