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.
Oral presentation and poster titles, abstracts, and authors from the Society for Range Management (SRM) Annual Meetings and Tradeshows, from 2013 forward.