The overall purpose of the Chino Winds Demonstration Project is to display the implementation and results of a set of Best Management Practices (BMPs) and associated Guidance Practices (GPs) for livestock grazing management to maintain or improve water quality. The demonstration project is included as a part of a coordinated resource management plan for the Yavapai Ranch. The project emphasizes the construction and utilization of structural range improvements (water development and fencing) to control the location, timing, and intensity of livestock grazing to enhance or maintain water quality and other multiple use values of the rangeland resource. Commercial fuelwood cutting also is included as a practice to improve vegetative cover on the soil surface and reduce sediment in water runoff. The coordinated resource management planning and vegetative cover monitoring were completed with interdisciplinary technical input and public participation.
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