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- Library Collection RecordThere is increasing impetus for the maintenance of biodiversity values throughout Australia's rangelands. This necessitates an improved understanding of the effects of grazing management on…Publication Date 2004
- grazing management
- assessment
- Library Collection RecordAbstract: This report presents the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s (USDA) findings and recommendations for assessing natural resource conditions and evaluating the effectiveness of conservation…Publication Date 2013
- assessment
- Natural resources management
- natural resources
- watersheds
- water management
- Library Collection RecordThis report on wetland conditions along the lower Santa Cruz river is presented in a very accessible format and includes information on assessment methods, water quality, aquatic wildlife, riparian…Publication Date 2014
- water management
- wetlands
- assessment
- Flow rate
- Sediment
- water quality
- riparian vegetation
- Library Collection RecordThe Water Harvesting Assessment Toolbox is a prototype decision aid designed to help communities in the Southwest US understand the role water harvesting can play in meeting water resource challenges…Publication Date 2016
- water harvesting
- assessment
- toolkit
- Library Collection RecordThe redeveloped DroughtView is a web-based decision-support tool that combines satellite-derived measures of surface greenness with additional geospatial data so that users can visualize and evaluate…Publication Date 2017
- drought
- monitoring
- assessment
- satellite imagery
- Library Collection RecordAdaptive management of road networks depends on timely data that accurately reflect the impacts those systems are having on ecosystem processes and associated services. In the absence of reliable…Publication Date 2013-05-01
- adaptive management
- assessment
- monitoring
- off-highway vehicles
- oil and gas
- rangeland health
- Library Collection RecordPanels of experts from the Society for Range Management and the National Research Council proposed that status of rangeland ecosystems could be ascertained by evaluating an ecological site's…Publication Date 2002-11-01
- soil surface
- soil structure
- flow resistance
- soil morphology
- gullied land
- wind erosion
- hydrologic factors
- assessment
- rapid methods
- data collection
- ecological balance
- grassland condition
- overland flow
- rill erosion
- ground cover
- grasslands
- range condition
- perennials
- mortality
- vegetation
- biomass production
- range management
- plant litter
- introduced species
- invasive species
- literature reviews
- United States
- soil compaction
- soil stability
- hydrologic function
- biological integrity
- ecosystem status
- erosion
- infiltration
- inventory
- Library Collection RecordThe objective of this study was to provide a tool for maintaining a high grazing efficiency. In a rotational grazing system, the residual sward height does not provide enough information in advance…Publication Date 2000-07-01
- France
- assessment
- ewes
- heat sums
- dairy cows
- nitrogen balance
- volume determination
- controlled grazing
- stocking rate
- rotational grazing
- grazing intensity
- biomass
- plant height
- herbage height
- nitrogen
- stocking rate
- management
- dairy farms
- Library Collection RecordPastoralists in the Sahel of northern Africa are entirely dependent on their livestock, which graze on the annual vegetation produced during a relatively short summer rainfall season. The satellite-…Publication Date 1995-03-01
- satellite surveys
- assessment
- Sahel
- Niger
- pastoralism
- carrying capacity
- ground vegetation
- satellite imagery
- stocking rate
- biomass production
- rangelands
- Library Collection RecordDetermination of live and dead herbage fractions from mixed herbage samples requires hand separation or specialized laboratory procedures. The constituent differential method is designed to determine…Publication Date 1993-03-01
- assessment
- measurements
- sampling
- forage
- dry matter
- chemical constituents of plants
- Library Collection RecordMethodology for assessing trend in range condition is still evolving. This paper demonstrates use of Dice's community similarity coefficient, 2a/(2a + b + c), with communities present at 3 times…Publication Date 1993-03-01
- assessment
- data analysis
- mathematical models
- plant ecology
- trends
- plant communities
- rangelands
- Library Collection RecordThe accuracy of microhistological techniques for analysis of herbivore diets was evaluated with cattle, sheep, and Angora goats fed grass, forb, and shrub mixtures of known botanical compositions.…Publication Date 1992-03-01
- feces analysis
- assessment
- feces composition
- shrubs
- diets
- sheep
- goats
- cattle
- botanical composition
- grasses
- New Mexico
- forage
- feeding preferences
- Library Collection RecordAn experiment was conducted to determine whether or not the effects of forage type and time into feeding period precluded use of esophageal extrusa to estimate relative dietary mineral status of…Publication Date 1990-03-01
- foraging period
- wheat
- assessment
- Cynodon dactylon
- nutritional status
- hay
- mineral nutrition
- steers
- diets
- forage
- Library Collection RecordTwo changes in traditional range condition analyses are recom- mended: (1) to replace the terms excellent, good, fair, and poor with ecological equivalents of climax, late seral, mid-seral, and early…Publication Date 1990-11-01
- site class assessment
- assessment
- seral stages
- multiple land use
- site factors
- range management
- rangelands
- Library Collection RecordA multi-video system that provides immediately useful narrowband black-and-white imagery within the visible to near-infrared light (0.40- to 1.10-micrometer waveband) region of the electromagnetic…Publication Date 1985-09-01
- land resources
- video recorders
- assessment
- image analysis
- remote sensing
- Texas
- range management
- rangelands
- ecology
- Library Collection RecordOpportunities for rangeland inventory and monitoring have been transformed by innovations in both indicator and methods standardization and new technologies. These technologies make it easier to…Publication Date 2017-04
- assessment
- inventory
- mobile apps
- monitoring
- Library Collection RecordThe arid zone is characterised by episodic rainfall events which produce infrequent vegetation growth pulses (Pickup, 1989). This vegetation then senesces and decays, or is consumed by herbivores.…Publication Date 1992
- assessment
- rangelands
- grazing management
- satellite observation
- Australia
- grazing methods
- range condition
- rangeland assessment
- Library Collection RecordAbstract not availablePublication Date 1992
- assessment
- Australia
- New South Wales
- range assessment
- Library Collection RecordAbstract not availablePublication Date 1992
- assessment
- rangelands
- Australia
- management
- New South Wales
- rangeland assessment
- Library Collection RecordThe use of climate variability information is only one element among many that pastoralists use to 'get the stocking rate right'. In recent years, there has been a large increase in the…Publication Date 2006
- stocking rate
- assessment
- grazing management
- climate variability
- Western Australia
- Library Collection RecordReliable indicators of rangeland condition enable land managers to understand the ecological dynamics surrounding their management activities and predict the consequences of their actions. However,…Publication Date 2006
- assessment
- indicators
- management techniques
- networks
- Southeastern Queensland
- Library Collection RecordThe Commonwealth land system in the former Kingoonya Soil Conservation District of South Australia is highly susceptible to disturbance and its ability to recover is variable, depending on physical…Publication Date 2006
- monitoring
- systems
- assessment
- Commonwealth of Australia
- South Australia
- Library Collection RecordDepartment of Natural Resources, Mines and Water (NRMW) is responsible for a significant component of condition and trend monitoring and assessment in the Desert Uplands. NRMW has initiated an on…Publication Date 2006
- monitoring
- programmes
- assessment
- landscape
- Western Queensland
- Library Collection RecordThe study examined the ability of two ground survey methods to thoroughly characterise the woody-perennial species richness of single sample sites or environmental regions. It focused on the Stony…Publication Date 2006
- species
- assessment
- monitoring
- vegetation
- South Australia
- Library Collection RecordThis study reviewed and evaluated different groups of satellite image -based vegetation indices for estimating vegetation cover in southern arid rangelands of South Australia. Slope-based, distance-…Publication Date 2006
- vegetation index
- satellite imagery
- assessment
- grazing systems
- South Australia
- Library Collection RecordLandscape Function Analysis monitoring compared two adjacent sites in the Southern Black Speargrass rangelands of the South Burnett region in Queensland. Both sites carried black speargrass (…Publication Date 2006
- assessment
- landscape
- site
- comparison
- Queensland
- Library Collection RecordThe aim of this paper is to introduce a study that develops, tests and refines techniques for measuring biodiversity condition and management outcomes using before and after scientific experiments of…Publication Date 2006
- biodiversity
- assessment
- management
- South Australia
- Water Point
- Library Collection RecordFor the first time, a region wide assessment of change across the southern shrublands of Western Australia is reported, using information from the Western Australian Rangeland Monitoring System (…Publication Date 2006
- monitoring
- assessment
- plants
- degradation
- Western Australia
- Library Collection RecordAn Environmental Assessment (EA) dealing with the development of a revised allotment management plan for the Walker Basin Allotment on March 21, 1991.
- cattle
- assessment
- management
- Plans
- Arizona
- Library Collection RecordFinding of no significant impact for Walker Basin Cattle Allotment Management Plan.
- assessment
- management
- environment
- Arizona
- Library Collection RecordThe Walker Basin Allotment Plan Environmental Assessment in March, 1990.
- assessment
- environment
- Allotments
- Alternative methods
- Arizona
- Library Collection RecordThe Reinvading Juniper Control Project on the Beaver Creek Ranger District.
- assessment
- projects
- environment
- Arizona
- Library Collection RecordThe environmental analysis report on May 1, 1975.
- assessment
- Plans
- environment
- Arizona
- Library Collection RecordThe multiple use survey report (S) approved April 27, 1970.
- assessment
- reports
- environment
- Arizona
- Library Collection RecordThe allotment analysis summary form
- assessment
- Allotments
- analyses
- Arizona
- Library Collection RecordThe range allotment acreage and grazing capacity summary.
- grazing
- Allotments
- assessment
- Arizona
- Library Collection RecordThe range allotment acreage and grazing capacity summary in 1970s.
- grazing
- assessment
- Allotments
- acreage
- Arizona
- Library Collection RecordThe range allotment acreage and grazing capacity summary in 1970s.
- assessment
- acreage
- grazing
- Allotments
- Arizona
- Library Collection RecordThe range allotment or pasture acreage summary on all national forest lands.
- rangelands
- pastures
- assessment
- acreage
- Arizona
- Library Collection RecordThe range allotment or pasture acreage summary on all SWFI lands.
- assessment
- land
- pastures
- Allotments
- Arizona
- Library Collection RecordThe range allotment or pasture acreage summary on all other private lands.
- land
- Allotments
- assessment
- Arizona
- Library Collection RecordThe range allotment or pasture acreage summary on snake ridge pasture lands.
- land
- pastures
- assessment
- Arizona
- Library Collection RecordThe range allotment or pasture acreage summary on snake ridge SWFI lands.
- assessment
- land
- pastures
- Arizona
- Library Collection RecordThe range allotment or pasture acreage summary on pine pasture national forest lands.
- assessment
- forests
- land
- Arizona
- Library Collection RecordThe range analysis reply on multiple use survey in 1969.
- rangelands
- multiple use
- assessment
- Arizona
- Library Collection RecordThe Multiple Use Survey Report (W) approved July 8, 1969.
- multiple use
- reports
- assessment
- Arizona
- Library Collection RecordThe description of allotment in 1968.
- assessment
- pastures
- Arizona
- Description
- Library Collection RecordThe pellet group summary for Horse Knoll Study Area from 1963 to 1968.
- assessment
- annuals
- Arizona
- Summary
- Library Collection RecordMonitoring is a valuable tool for the management of public and private rangelands. It plays a critical role in detecting problems in the early stages and is the only way to objectively evaluate the…Publication Date 2012
- classification
- assessment
- habitat classification
- rangeland vegetation
- United States
- Library Collection RecordThe “Guidelines for determining lease land condition†(the Guidelines) were developed by the Queensland Department of Environment and Resource Management (DERM) to support implementation of the…Publication Date 2010
- assessment
- Condition
- Queensland