NRCS Technical Service Providers and consulting foresters

Where is your client's forest?

Free outline for an NRCS Conservation Activity Plan (CAP) 106 forest management plan, with soils, stands and streams mapped for your client.

  • Free to read
  • No sign-up until the draft
  • Hands off to the right door

ePlan fills in

  • Parcel and acreage
  • Soils
  • Forest type
  • Streams and wetlands
  • Slope

How it works

CAP 106 forest management plan outline, from one answer

  1. Enter the tract and your client's goals.
  2. ePlan maps soils, stands and water and lays out the plan sections.
  3. Read the outline free; you write and certify the plan. Harvesting in California? Start a timber harvest plan draft.

What you get

CAP 106 forest management plan outline and 1 more document

The check is free. The paperwork after it is drafted at the Timber harvest plan door.

The first draft

CAP 106 forest management plan outline (free)

  1. Client, tract and objectives
  2. Resource inventory: soils, stands and water
  3. Resource concerns
  4. Alternatives considered
  5. Practices and schedule
  6. Maps

Modeled on: NRCS Conservation Activity Plan 106, Forest Management Plan criteria

Next · 2

Timber harvest plan

  1. Harvest area and silviculture
  2. Watercourse protection
  3. Roads and erosion control
  4. Registered professional forester signature

From public data

What ePlan fills in, and from where

30 days

after NRCS receives valid invoices and payment requests for technical services, it issues payment
Source: 7 CFR 652.5(h), eCFR

Ready for the paperwork?

Draft a California timber harvesting plan for your RPF: units, silviculture, roads, watercourse protection and the 14 CCR 1034 sections. Free to read.

Timber harvest plan →

Questions

CAP 106 Forest Management Plan: what people ask

Who can write a CAP 106 plan?

A Technical Service Provider certified by NRCS. NRCS certifies TSPs and places them on its approved list, and producers may choose to use them for conservation planning.

Source: nrcs.usda.gov

Must the landowner pick from the approved list?

Yes. Participants getting technical services through NRCS must select a certified TSP from the approved list.

Source: ecfr.gov

What can TSP help include?

Developing conservation plans or activity plans that can later be built into a program contract.

Source: ecfr.gov

The rules this door follows