GRAZING AND RANCH MANAGEMENT PRACTICES CHECKLIST
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Grazing/Ranch Management Practices |
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The practices below can help protect water quality by preventing or reducing livestock concentration in streams or or other sensitive locations, protecting ground cover, reducing erosion, improving fish and wildlife habitat or reducing nutrient or pathogen loading in surface water. First you should identify practices currently in use that protect water quality. Second you should select potential practices that could be used to further protect water quality based on what you found during your ranch self-assessment. Third you can identify which of the potential practices you select for implementation and fourth you can keep a record of your implementation date. You should take photographs before and after implementation to document changes that occur due to a practice or group of practices. If you need to make some changes it may take you a while to decide how to proceed. You may want to compare practices that can accomplish the same thing. You should estimate costs. You may want to seek cost share funding with NRCS or other sources. When you know what practices you will implement you can complete this form and keep it as a record of your decisions and your progress. You can add any additional descriptive information and records that you feel are appropriate in documenting your active management. |
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Livestock Distribution Practice |
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water developments (troughs, tanks, springs, wells, ponds, water gaps, ect.) |
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improved forage palatability |
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a. burning |
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c. seeding |
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