In central Montana's Judith Basin County, there are over 20 producers who have been doing annual photo monitoring and adjusting their grazing strategies on their grazing lands since as early as 1997. Judith Basin County largely falls in Major Land Resource Area 46, Foothills and Mountains with about a 16 inch average annual precipitation. The monitoring sites are predominantly on loamy, clayey and overflow ecological sites. Photos are generally taken in August each year and the photos, grazing records and utilization information are compared to past years' information. The land manager and NRCS range conservationist develop grazing plans based on trends revealed through the annual monitoring during the winter prior to the next year's grazing season. This poster illustrates how collaboration between land managers and range management professionals results in grazing improvements when monitoring is used consistently to modify grazing plans to meet landscape goals.
Oral presentation and poster titles, abstracts, and authors from the Society for Range Management (SRM) Annual Meetings and Tradeshows, from 2013 forward.