A TSP, or Technical Service Provider, is an individual or organization that the Natural Resource Conservation Service (NRCS) has preapproved to implement a conservation activity on behalf of landowners who receive cost-share awards. NRCS certifies TSPs to perform specified practices based on their education and background. TSPs are trained in NRCS’s nine-step conservation planning process….
In 2019, the Washington State Legislature commissioned a study by the University of Washington of trends in small, non-industrial private forest land ownership and management1. The UW study predicts that as many as 50,000 small forest landowners will sell some or all their forest land within the decade following the study report’s release date2. An…
Over the past decade or so, small, unmanned aircraft systems (sUAS)–popularly known as “drones”–have become indispensable tools for forestry field work. (I wrote about some of the ways I used drones in my forestry consulting business in this 2021 Western Forester article below.) One barrier foresters face to using drones in their own practice is…