i currently serve as a board member from the state of alabama for nacd as well as chairman of the nacd forest resources policy group. my wife and i own homestead company sole proprietorship in marian, alabama, where we are a tree farm operation. my family has used a variety of conservation practices over nearly 200 years including cross fencing, rotational grazing, padded water troughs and prescribed burning. we received our first farm plan in 1939. and we have been certified tree farm since 1941. we have a mix of pine and hardwoods on our property and in 1999 we reintroduced long leaf to our property. we currently have a forest management plan and a registered foerster to assist us with our forest management. the importance of conservation cannot be stated enough. that is why nacd supports the passage of the 2012 farm bill. conservation districts throughout this country have been strong participants and supporters of the farm stewardship programs which provide technical assistance made by state partners to nonindustrial private forest owners. since the program's creation it has produc

nacd is one of the four partners of joint forestry team. including the forest service, nrcs and my fellow panelists, the national association of state foresters. the forest management plan template, serves as a primary guidance to nrcs forestry technical service providers. i served as chairman of the joint forestry team in 2010 and saw the value that the team provided to not just the stewart ship program but to the forest industry as a whole. on my own land, in the southeastern united states, i have seen direct benefit of the forest steward ship program. my work with the long leaf pine restoration what -- to date i have restored more than 700 acres of long leaf pine in an effort to restore this native tree to our forests. second the forest legacy project has been a important part of the work by allowing owners to protect environmentally important forest areas from expansion and by engaging with the locally led process to develop conservation plans. while the senate 2012 farm -- includes a program cap of $200 million annually. i do not belie

nacd is one of the four partners of the joy of forestry team, including the forest service, and rcs, the national association of state forestry spirit of forest manage the plan but the team is help develop serves as the primary guidance to and rcs service providers. i served as chairman of the joint forestry team in 2010 and saw firsthand the value of the team provided to not just the stewardship program, but the forest industry as a whole. on my own land in the southeastern united states facing direct benefit of the forest stewardship program. my work with the pine restoration has been in part a product of the stewardship program. to date i have restored more than 700 acres in an effort to restore this forest. second, the forest legacy program has done an important part of conservation district by allowing landowners to protect environmentally important forest areas from expansion and by engaging with locally but process to develop conservation plans. while the senate 2012 farm bill framework now includes a program of $200 million annually, i do not leave this cast will be a negativ

produced over 270,000 resources and 301 million acres of private land developing a sound reserves but to nacd is one of the four partners of the forestry team with the forest service and also with the national association of state foresters. the management plan template serves us up are married guidance. >> i was chairman and saw first the and in 2010 to not just the stewardship program but as a whole. i have seen in the direct benefit of the program. restoration was the product of it. today i have restored more than 700 acres in an effort to restore native tree to or forest park and forest make the program allows landowners to protect her are meant to leave for four important areas from expansion to invade the process to develop the conservation plan. in the 2012 farm bill framework kravis $200 million annually and a do not believe it is a negative impact to successfully carry out responsible conservation per barrel in sex continue to have a direct havoc by infestation and disease have been direct impact and put their lives in danger due to the laws of timber and increase the risk of wildfir