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DEVELOPMENT AND USE OF A USDA-NRCS PLANNING FORM WITHIN A CALIFORNIA MEDITERRANEAN-TYPE RANGELAND
Author
Higgins, Michael
Finzel, Julie
Publisher
Society for Range Management
Publication Year
2015
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Throughout the USDA-Natural Resources Conservation Service, conservation planning assistance forms have been used to showcase the before and after effects of conservation practices. Within California, there was a need to develop a qualitative rangeland worksheet that would evaluate practices within California's Mediterranean-type rangeland. With 30 plus years of University of California rangeland research, the NRCS and University of California Cooperative Extension developed a worksheet for NRCS, California. The worksheet is completed in the field with NRCS customers and entails: Residual Dry Matter, Grazing Intensity, Composition Change, Condition of the Soil Surface and Annual Rainfall/Temperature. This talk will present the worksheet and how it is being utilized throughout California.

Language
English
Resource Type
Text
Document Type
Conference Proceedings
Conference Name
SRM Sacramento, CA