State is required to develop best 

 management practices (BMP's) to 

 minimize pollution from nonpoint 

 sources such as forestry and 

 farming operations. Southern 

 university forestry research at 

 several institutions provided data 

 bases, in whole or in part, for 

 selecting and verifying the effects 

 of such practices. 



The Arkansas Forestry 

 Commission used some of the data 

 from research on effects of 

 silvicultural practices and different 

 intensities of management on water 

 quality and wildlife habitat. The 

 research was a three-way effort 

 between the University of 

 Arkansas at Monticello. the USDA 

 Forest Service, and Weyerhaeuser. 

 Oklahoma State University was 

 similarly engaged (Blackmon. 

 personal communication). 



Years of research at the University 

 of Tennessee on the ecology, 

 silviculture, and management of 

 oak— hickory and oak-pine forests 

 culminated in publication by the 

 Tennessee Forestry Association of 

 ""Forest Practice Guidelines for 

 Tennessee.'" Edited by University 

 faculty, it constitutes the BMP's 

 for 208 compliance in Tennessee 

 (Tennessee Forestry Association 

 n.d.: Schneider, personal 

 communication). 



In the lower Coastal Plain, the 

 University of Florida's School of 

 Forest Resources and 

 Conservation and the USDA 



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Forest Service, with forest 

 industry cooperating, established 

 the Intensive Management 

 Practices Assessment Center 

 (IMPAC) in 1976 to conduct 

 comprehensive impact research on 

 effects of intensive forest 

 management systems on soil, 

 water, and wildlife resources. 

 Some of the early results have 

 provided part of the basis for 

 Florida BMP's (Coleman et al. 

 n.d.). 



Timber Harvesting — Research to 

 improve timber harvesting 

 equipment, methods, productivity. 

 and management has been carried 

 out at a number of southern 

 universities with significant results. 

 For example. Mississippi State 

 developed one-pass and two-pass 

 harvesting systems for picking up 

 green woody biomass left behind in 

 pulpwood and sawtimber logging. 

 The systems make it possible for 

 forest-products companies to 

 increase use of woody biomass for 

 fuel by 25 tons per acre (62 tons 

 per ha) at a delivered cost 

 competitive with alternative fuels. 

 And the removal of this additional 

 material has reduced costs of site 

 preparation for the next crop by as 

 much as S60 an acre (S148 per ha) 

 (Richards, personal 

 communication). 



VPI and SU has an Industrial 

 Forest Operations Cooperative 

 with 10 forest-products companies, 

 three harvesting companies, and 

 the USDA Forest Service's Forest 





