Voluntary Stewardship Program

Welcome to the new VSP website! Washington State Conservation Commission's Voluntary Stewardship Program (VSP) provides an alternative approach for counties to meet Growth Management Act requirements.

VSP County Resources

Welcome VSP Administrators! Access all available resources including billing and cost share information, reporting forms, training materials, monitoring resources, and more.

Understanding Critical Areas of Conservation

Protecting critical areas also helps reduce exposure to risks, such as landslides or flooding, and maintains the natural elements of our landscape.

VSP uses a watershed-focused, incentive-based, voluntary collaboration to protect critical areas of conservation, to promote agriculture, and to bring together diverse stakeholders.

VSP in Action:

Pacific

Pacific CD Protects Riparian Habitat through Fencing Project

Wildlife Habitat

Pacific Conservation District (PCD) recently worked with a landowner who completed an exclusion fence for their cattle operation.

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Recent Updates:

Click here to view VSP Updates

Fall VSP Monitoring Symposium: Assessing wetland functions and values with applications to the Voluntary Stewardship Program

Join us for a webinar on Nov. 14 focused on assessing wetland functions and values, with an emphasis on applications to watershed-scale monitoring and VSP.

VSP capital funding update: Cost share now closed

At this time, all the available Voluntary Stewardship Program (VSP) cost-share funding has been allocated. This was capital funding provided by the legislature to the State Conservation Commission (SCC) for fiscal year 2023-25. 

Next VSP Joint Meeting is Oct. 12 in Pullman and online

The next VSP Joint meeting of the VSP Technical Panel and Statewide Advisory Committee is Oct. 12, 2023. This meeting will be held in Pullman and online. The seven counties in the Southeast region and two from the Northeast of Washington are invited to present--Benton, Franklin, Whitman, Walla Walla, Columbia, Garfield, Asotin, Stevens, and Lincoln.

Find Your VSP County Program

Use our interactive map to locate a participating VSP county near you and access your county's 2-year and 5-year reports and other county-specific resources.

Whitman
Walla Walla
Thurston
Stevens
Spokane
Skagit
San Juan
Pend
Orielle
Pacific
Okanogan
Mason
Lincoln
Lewis
kittitas
Grays Harbor
Grant
Garfield
Franklin
Ferry
Douglas
Cowlitz
Columbia
Chelan
Benton
Yakima
Asotin
Adams

Protecting 5 Critical Areas of Conservation

VSP programs help to preserve the natural environment, maintain fish and wildlife habitat, and protect drinking water. Protecting critical areas also helps reduce exposure to risks, such as landslides or flooding, and maintains the natural elements of our landscape.