Introduction

Welcome to the Forestry Best Management Practices (BMPs) refresher course. While you have already taken the Core BMP course, this training is designed as a refresher course to highlight some of the more important topics regarding BMPs and to introduce some of the revisions that have been made to the BMP Handbook in the August 2017 edition.

This course is broken down into 7 modules:

  • Harvest Planning & Layout, which begins on the next page.
  • General Harvest and Site Prep Guidelines
  • Roads
  • Stream Crossings
  • Streamside Management Zones
  • Rutting
  • Wetland BMPs

Supplemental material for this course is available any time under the Materials tab above or by clicking the link below:

  1. Texas Forestry BMP Handbook

As you progress through the course, please click Mark Complete at the end of each section, then press the Next button on the right.