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Access Road
A path to provide a fixed route for travel for moving
livestock, equipment, and supplies. Also it provides access
for maintenance and management of conservation enterprises
while controlling runoff to prevent erosion and maintain or
improve water quality.
Animal Trail and Walkways
A travel way for livestock and/or wildlife to provide
movement through difficult or sensitive terrain. The trails
should accomplish one or more of the following purposes:
provide or improve access to forage, water and/or shelter;
improve grazing efficiency and distribution, divert travel
away from ecologically sensitive and/or erosive sites.
Conservation Crop Rotation
Growing crops in a recurring sequence on the same field. Can
provide an incentive payment to assist with developing
rotation.
Critical Area Planting
Establish permanent vegetation on areas with existing or
expected high rates of erosion on degraded sites that
usually cannot be stabilized by ordinary conservation
treatment, and if left untreated could be severely damaged
by erosion.
Cropland Conversion
Establish and maintain a conservation cover of grasses,
trees, or wildlife plantings on fields previously used for
crop production to improve water quality.
Diversion
A channel constructed across the slope with a supporting
ridge on the lower side to divert excess water from one area
for use or safe disposal in other areas. Examples where used
are: where runoff damages cropland, pastureland, farmsteads,
feedlots, or conservation practices such as terraces or
strip-cropping.
Early Successional Habitat Development
Manage early plant succession to benefit desired wildlife or
natural communities by: increasing plant community
diversity; provide access for removal and collection of
forest products, and provide access to forested areas for
recreation.
Fence
Enclosing or dividing an area of land with a suitable
permanent structure to: exclude livestock or big game from
areas that should be protected from grazing; control
domestic livestock while permitting wildlife movement;
confine livestock or big game to an area.
Field Border
A strip of permanent vegetation established at the edge of a
field to: control erosion, protect edges of fields that are
used as turn rows or travel lanes for farm machinery, reduce
competition from adjacent woodland, provide wildlife food
cover, or improve the landscape.
Filter Strip
A strip or area of vegetation for removing sediment, organic
matter, nutrients and other pollutants from runoff and
wastewater. Can be used on cropland fields adjacent to field
ditches and other water bodies, or above other conservation
practices such as terraces or diversions.
Grassed Waterway
A natural or constructed channel that is shaped or graded to
required dimensions for the purpose of: conveying runoff
from rows, terraces, diversions or other water
concentrations without causing erosion or flooding; to
reduce gully erosion and to protect water quality.
Heavy Use Protection
The stabilization of areas frequently and intensively used
by people, animals or vehicles by establishing vegetative
cover, by surfacing with suitable materials and/or by
installing needed structures.
Long Term No-Till
Planting all crops for at least five consecutive years in
80% or more residue from the existing crops and/or cover
crops with no soil surface width disturbance greater than
25% of the row spacing.
Pasture and Hay Planting
Establishing and re-establishing or renovating native or
introduced forage species and may be applied on cropland,
hayland, pastureland, or other agriculture lands.
Prescribed Grazing
Managing the controlled harvest of vegetation with grazing
animals to: improve or maintain the health and vigor of
plant communities; improve or maintain quantity and quality
of forage for livestock health and productivity; improve or
maintain water quality and quantity; minimize accelerated
soil erosion or improve soil quality.
Residue Management No-Till and Strip-Till
Managing the amount, orientation and distribution of crop
and other plant residues on the soil surface during part of
the year, while growing crops in a clean tilled seedbed.
Stream Crossing
A trail or travel-way constructed across a stream to allow
livestock or equipment to cross without disturbing the
bottom or causing erosion on the banks.
Stripcropping
Growing crops and sod in systematic arrangement of
alternating strips or bands on the contour to improve water
quality.
Waste Management System
A planned system in which all necessary components are
installed for managing liquid and solid waste to prevent or
minimize degradation of soil, ground and surface water
resources.
Water Well
A hole; drilled, dug, driven bored, jetted or otherwise
constructed into an aquifer to: provide water for livestock.
This practice can only be applied when removing animals from
a creek or other body of water.
Watering Facility
A device (tank, trough or other watertight container) for
providing animal access to water in order to: protect and
enhance vegetative cover through proper distribution of
grazing; provide erosion control through better grassland
management and/or protect streams, ponds and water supplies
from contamination by providing alternative access to water.
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