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Acknowledgments

This document is the culmination of an effort that has spanned many years. Countless numbers of Forest Service, U.S. Depart ment of Agriculture, resource personnel at all levels of the agency, including National Forest System, State and Private

Forestry, and Research and Development, have participated to make the vision of a National Best Management Practices

(BMP) Program a reality. Thank you to all those who provided guidance as part of the steering committee, those who partici pated in the teams that drafted the initial version of the BMPs, those who developed the BMP monitoring protocols, and the many people across the agency who reviewed drafts of this

Volume 1: National Core BMP Technical Guide document and provided comments. Particular thanks goes to

Joan Carlson of the Rocky Mountain Regional Office for her dedication to the development and completion of this document.

Thank you also to our partners-the Association of Clean Water

Administrators (formerly the Association of State and Inter-State

Water Pollution Control Administrators), the lntertribal Timber

Council, the National Association of State Foresters, the National

Congress of American Indians, and the U.S. Environmental

Protection Agency-who reviewed the document and provided helpful comments.

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