Examples include general sessions of forestry or other professional meetings or course work in areas such as real estate, finance, appraisal, business management or computer science. Credit accrues at the rate of 15 hours for each publication requiring technical review or 5 hours for an article or series of articles of a substantial nature in magazines, newspapers, or similar publications. Examples are attendance at meetings of state boards of forestry, forestry licensing committees, or tree improvement associations. This may not include the business or social portions of professional society meetings that do not qualify for Categories 1 or 2. Independent study programs that are forestry related but do not qualify for Category 1 are included.
Credit accrues at the rate of one hour for each hour of activity.
Holding elected or appointed office or active committee assignment in forestry or allied professional organizations and on national, state or local boards as a representative of the forestry profession. Credit accrues at the rate of 5 hours per year for holding office, chairing an assignment or one active committee membership. This usually takes the form of periodic examinations and must be documented. Otherwise, correspondence courses may be counted under Category 5. Contact hours are assigned on the basis of the credits granted by the sponsoring organization.