Eligible costs

Eligible costs. (1) Grants under the program shall be used to manage the following lands under a prepared landowner forest stewardship plan: (a) All of the nonindustrial private forest land with existing tree cover within a contiguous tract; and (b) Other nonindustrial private forest land within the same contiguous tract which is identified by the landowner and approved by the department as suitable for growing trees and/or scheduled for conversion to a program practice. (2) To be eligible for a grant under this program, one or more eligible practices shall be identified in the forest stewardship plan, except that a grant may be awarded for the development of a forest stewardship plan. (3) Eligible costs are all those associated with the installation of a specific practice as approved by the state forester .