Current through Register Vol. 56, No. 18, September 16, 2024
(a) An Approved Forester shall submit a report semi-annually to the New Jersey Forest Service to document professional activities and the implementation of management practices during the preceding six-month reporting period (January 1 through June 30 or July 1 through December 31, as applicable).
(b) The Approved Forester shall:
1. Prepare the semi-annual report on a form available from the New Jersey Forest Service;
2. Sign and date the report; and
3. Submit the completed form by February 15th and September 15th each year, in accordance with N.J.A.C. 7:3-1.4.
(c) The Approved Forester shall provide the following in the semi-annual report:
1. The Approved Forester's contact information and credentials, and the services the Approved Forester offers, and information related to the Approved Forester's professional education and experience, which the Department will make available to the public in its online List of Approved Foresters;
2. Information pertaining to the properties for which the Approved Forester has, during the reporting period, served as the owner's forestry consultant in the preparation or implementation of a woodland management plan, forest stewardship plan, or other type of forestry plan, including the following:
i. The number of plans that the Approved Forester prepared and/or certified, and that the Department approved during the reporting period, and the total acreage of forest land covered by these plans;
ii. Management practices implemented during the reporting period pursuant to the plans, and the extent of their implementation; and
iii. Wood and other forest products harvested for sale during the reporting period, including the number of sites at which harvest occurred, the total acres harvested, the size class and quantity of each product harvested, and the combined market value; and
3. Each program of professional education meeting the requirements for continuing education at N.J.A.C. 7:3-3.5 that the Approved Forester participated in during the reporting period.
(d) The Approved Forester shall additionally report in each semi-annual report such other information as the Department may request for its use in satisfying planning or reporting responsibilities under State law (such as pursuant to N.J.S.A. 13:1L-35) or as established by the USDA Forest Service (such as pursuant to the USDA Forest Service's administration of the Cooperative Forestry Assistance Act of 1978, as amended,
16 U.S.C. §
2103A) .
