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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.

Stumped January 2017

Answers to Inspectors’ Most Frequently Asked Questions

Q: Do you have questions about completing or submitting the 004 inspection form?