In 1994, the SCFC published South Carolina's Best Management Practices for Forestry
(BMP manual), a set of guidelines for use by forest industry to protect water quality when
conducting forest management activities. To encourage the appropriate use of these
voluntary guidelines, the agency implemented Courtesy BMP Exams. Based on data from the last several years and input received from the BMP Foresters and forest industry, the author suggests various changes to improve the courtesy exam
