Ohio Forest Services

A full service Natural Resource, Forest Management & Timber Sales Company

EQIP, CAUV & OFTL

EQIP Description The Environmental Quality Incentives Program (EQIP) is a voluntary conservation program administered by the USDA Natural Resources Conservation Service (NRCS). It supports production agriculture and environmental quality as compatible goals. Through EQIP, agricultural producers may receive financial and technical help with forest management conservation practices on agricultural land.   2011 Forestry EQIP Program Description Forestry EQIP provides payments up to 75 percent of the incurred costs incurred and income foregone of certain forest conservation practices and activities. However certain historically underserved producers may be eligible for payments up to 90 percent of the estimated incurred costs and income foregone. Ohio Forest Services is a Certified Technical Service Provider (TSP) for all landowners in Ohio. We offer technical assistance needed for certain eligible conservation practices, activities and services. If you own a woodlot in Ohio that is at least 10 acres and qualify as an agricultural producer, Ohio’s EQIP Forestry program may be for you.   EQIP, the Environmental Quality Incentives Program, is a way for landowners to receive program payments and technical advice from our professional foresters. Current Agricultural Use Valuation (CAUV) Ohio Forest Service develops plans for private landowners that have ten or more acres of forestland, devoted to commercial forest production (managed for the purpose of harvesting timber). Plans include a forest visit, determination of basal area, species growing in the area, the dominant forest class, and recommended forest management practices, soils map with expected tree growth information for trees growing for that soil type.  Most practices include marking the property lines, cutting of grape vines in marketable trees, creating or maintaining management trails, fencing livestock out of the woodlot, and the control of invasive species in the woodlot (optional for CAUV requirements).

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