Environmental Management
Best Management Practices (BMPs)
Florida's Best Management Practices (BMPs) for silviculture operations are the minimum standards necessary for protecting and maintaining the State's water quality as well as some wildlife habitat values while conducting forestry activities. They represent a balance between overall natural resource protection and use. BMPs were developed by the Florida Division of Forestry (DOF) specifically for silviculture and are intended to be applied on all such operations. These practices are not intended for use during tree removal or land clearing operations associated with residential or commercial development, or other activities with non-forestry objectives.
UF/IFAS Sites
UF/IFAS Publications
- Ecosystem Management (EM) as a Basis for Forest Stewardship on Private Lands
- Environmentally Sound Forest Harvesting
- Forests, Hydrology, and Water Quality: Impacts of Silvicultural Practices
- Restoring the Urban Forest Ecosystem, Chapter 2: Basic Ecological Principles for Restoration
- Restoring the Urban Forest Ecosystem, Chapter 5: Developing a Restoration Plan That Works
- What is in a Natural Resource Management Plan?
State & Federal Agencies
Prescribed Fires
UF/IFAS Sites
UF/IFAS Publications
- Benefits of Prescribed Burning
- Control of Non-native Plants in Natural Areas of Florida
- Designing a Prescribed Fire Demonstration Area
- Fire in the Wildland-Urban Interface: Understanding Fire Behavior
- Prescribed Burning Regulations in Florida
- Restoring the Urban Forest Ecosystem, Chapter 6: Reporting Wildland Fire Activities
- Understanding Fire: Nature's Land Management Tool
- Vegetation Management in Florida's Private Non-Industrial Forests
- Where There's Fire, There's Smoke: Air Quality and Prescribed Burning in Florida
- Return to Forestry
UF/IFAS Sites
- Agroforestry
- Center for Natural Resources
- Center for Subtropical Agroforestry (CSTAF)
- Florida Forest Stewardship Program--School of Forest Resources & Conservation
- Florida Forestry Information--School of Forest Resources & Conservation
- Forest Stewardship Newsletter--School of Forest Resources & Conservation
- Forestry, Aquaculture and Natural Resource Management--Jefferson County Extension
- Master Tree Farmer
- School of Forest Resources & Conservation
UF/IFAS Publications
- Conservation Easements: Options for Preserving Current Land Uses
- Environmentally Sound Forest Harvesting
- Florida's Renewable Forest Resources
- Selecting a Consulting Forester
- What is in a Natural Resource Management Plan?
- Where Does a Forest Landowner Find Forestry Help?
State & Federal Agencies
- Bureau of Land Management--U.S. Department of the Interior
- County Foresters--Florida Division of Forestry
- FDACS Division of Forestry
- Florida Department of Agriculture and Consumer Services (FDACS)
- National Forests in Florida--USDA/FS
- Natural Resources Conservation Service (NRCS)--USDA
- Research Links--USDA/FS
- Southern Region Extension Forestry--USDA Forest Services
- Southern Research Station--USDA/FS
- State & Private Forestry Programs--USDA/FS
- USDA Forest Service Topics
- U.S. National Arboretum
Other University Sites
- Purdue University
- Department of Forestry and Natural Resources
- University of Georgia
- Forest Recreation
- Security Considerations for Timberland Owners
- Subtropical Forestry
- Sustainable Forestry
- Warnell School of Forest Resources
- Warnell School of Forest Resources: Service and Outreach
