BMP Implementation Monitoring - Introduction
Best Management Practice (BMP) Effort, Implementation, and Effectiveness Field Audit

Since 1993 the Virginia Department of Forestry has conducted a Best Management Practice Field Audit twice each year. Summary reports are available in Adobe PDF Format for audits beginning in November 2000.

The audit has three purposes:

1. to identify current levels of effort in attempting to use BMPs, whether or not BMPs meet technical specifications,
2. to identify current levels of BMP implementation as compared to the technical BMP implementation standards documented in the VDOF BMP handbook.
3. to identify effectiveness levels for BMPs that have been implemented to VDOF standards.

Methods

A total of 30 timber harvests are randomly selected from the timber harvests listed in the DOF information system as having been inspected by VDOF or industry cooperators in the six months prior to the audit date.

After site selection, audit team members divide into groups of two or three and travel to their assigned timber harvests to inspect them. Information is collected at each site using a standardized BMP Effort, Implementation, and Effectiveness Audit Sheet.

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