An improved set of practices designed to protect water quality on logging jobs went into effect as a revised rule on October 22, 2016. The Acceptable Management Practices for Maintaining Water Quality on Logging Jobs in Vermont, or AMPs, are a set of practices designed to protect water quality by minimizing soil erosion and runoff during and after logging activity. The implementation of the AMPs plays a major role in ensuring that the ecologic and economic benefits that forests provide are compatible and sustained. View the revised rule on the Department of Forests, Parks and Recreation website and watch September’s Brown Bag Lecture on the revised AMPs on the Clean Water Initiative YouTube channel.