Three USDA service centres stand inside Apache County, at Chinle, St Michaels and Springerville. Two of them sit on the Navajo Nation; they are federal offices rather than tribal ones, and they serve the producers in their area whoever those are. USDA's own locator returns each of them for several counties, but no published page states any service area in words, so ring the office and ask before assuming your parcel is covered. County planning and building work from Cleveland Street in St. Johns, and that department publishes a Code of the West that is unusually frank about rural access and rural fire. One thing to watch when writing to it: the inbox it publishes sits on an older county domain and not on the one its website runs on.
This summary was drafted by a machine from the listings on this page, and an editor has not rewritten it yet.
boundary from the US Census Bureau
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Why Sierra Log & Timber cares about your vacant land
Sierra Log & Timber mills cedar log and timber home packages in Chico, California. A good part of our working week is spent with people who have just bought land, and the same thing happens every time: the grants, the chipping days, the defensible space visits and the permit desks are all real, and all scattered across a dozen county websites that do not link to one another. So we put them in one place and left it open. You do not have to be building a log home to use this, and reading it signs you up for nothing.
Nothing local is recorded for Apache County yet. What is on this page reaches it from the Arizona and national listings above, which is worth knowing before you ring anybody: the help is real, but the desk answering is not in the county. We would rather say that than pad the page. If you know of something here that belongs on it, the second panel below is the fastest way to tell us.
Building on rural land in Apache County
What applies here, in Arizona and in this county, each line with the source it was read from.
Where the building permit comes from
Apache County Building Safety Permits issues building permits here.
Arizona has adopted no residential building code statewide: under ARS 11-861(A) a county board of supervisors may adopt a building code for the unincorporated areas it has zoned, and may authorise areas zoned rural or unclassified to be exempt from the code it adopts.
Whether a wildland-urban interface code applies is a county decision: ARS 11-861(D) provides that a board of supervisors may adopt a current wildland-urban interface code adapted from a national or international model code.
Permits and inspections under a county building code are the county board of supervisors' own, under ARS 11-863, which lets the board set the permit and inspection fees and contract enforcement to a city or town.
ARS 32-1121(A)(5) exempts from contractor licensing an owner who builds on their own property, using their own labour, their own employees or licensed contractors, where the structure is intended for the owner's occupancy and not for sale or rent.
Does Sierra Log & Timber run any of these programmes?
No. Every organisation and programme on this page is run by somebody else: a county office, a state agency, a nonprofit, a utility or a tribe. We collect them, check them and publish them, and that is the whole of our part in it. What we do ourselves is mill cedar log and timber home packages in Chico, California.
Is this free to use, and does using it sign me up for anything?
The directory is free and reading it signs you up for nothing. The two panels below are the only places on this page that ask for an address, both are optional, and they do different jobs: one tells you when this county's listings change, the other tells us that something here is already wrong.
Numbers change and programmes run out of money. Leave an address and it is held against the Apache County page so you can be told when a listing here is added, changed or removed. No account.
What is stored is your address and which county page you left it on, and nothing else: no name, no location, nothing about what you read. It is used for that one notification and for nothing else, it appears nowhere on this site, and this site cannot read the list back. Nothing has been sent to any address yet, because the notices are not built; when they are, every message will say how to stop them.
Something on this page is wrong?
Numbers change, offices move and programmes run out of money. If something on this page is wrong, tell us and a person will check it.
What you send goes to the people who maintain this directory and appears nowhere on this site. Your email is used to reply to you and for nothing else.
Technical help for private forest landowners and the Forest Stewardship programme, delivered in California through the CAL FIRE partnership. State and Private Forestry money also funds local reforestation efforts such as the Feather River RCD's EFoRT.
You do not deal with the Forest Service directly for this. The programme runs through a state coordinator, and that is who to ask for. What it supports is good stewardship on privately owned forest land, including agroforestry, aimed at keeping several forest resources going at once rather than timber alone. It is not a small or experimental thing: more than 25 million acres are being managed under stewardship plans written through it.