[Knitting A Conundrum]

Here's one from Texas:

In 1989, the Texas Forest Service established the BMP program to focus on minimizing any threats to water quality from forestry activities. The program educates landowners, loggers and foresters about the threats to water quality and provides technical assistance on how to minimize those threats through the use of non-regulatory forestry BMPs.BMP Bluebook

The BMP program also monitors BMP implementation throughout the state. Every three years, the BMP program publishes a report, Voluntary Implementation of Forestry Best Management Practices in East Texas, which describes the level at which BMPs are being implemented. The TFS is also currently conducting a study designed to measure the overall effectiveness of BMPs in Texas.

http://tfsweb.tamu.edu/sustainable/article.aspx?id=71

Forest Service PDF document from 1996
http://www.fs.fed.us/r10/ro/policy-reports/bmp/index.shtml

There's more. This was just the first.

[hedgetrimmer]

Show the legislation or regulation please.