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New Year, New Focus On Inspections
On-the-ground
inspections are a fundamental component of the American Tree Farm System’s
(ATFS) success, and ATFS Inspectors are key to implementing this outreach to
Tree Farmers. Regular communication and outreach is essential to maintaining
relationships with all ATFS Tree Farmers, especially those who have not been
engaged recently, to ensure that they are managing their forests to the ATFS Standards
and upholding the integrity of the program. This outreach requires solid
inspector engagement and assignment strategies, a thorough system-wide database
clean-up combined with tailored intentional landowner communication to ensure
the momentum created by the State’s
Voice, State’s Choice initiative continues.
New Inspector Engagement in 2017
In 2017, ATFS will launch pilot programs with 3-5 states to
help us learn more about what approaches are most successful to increase the
number of inspections done each year. Our goal is to have all active inspectors
that are trained to the current standards complete at least two inspections per
year. Of course, we know that many of you do way more than this, which is
greatly appreciated; however, many inspectors are trained and never complete a
single inspection.
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