fter the forage is dry, weigh the bag and forage in grams and record the weight. Empty the forage and weigh the bag to get the net forage weight in grams. Postage scales may be adequate for weighing the forage, but the weights must be converted from ounces to grams (1 ounce = 28.3 g). Forage production in lbs./acre is determined by mul-tiplying the net forage weight (from the 10 hoops) by 10. If the forage from 10 hoop placements (10 x .96 sq. ft. = 9.6 sq. ft.) was 50 grams, total forage production would be 500 lbs. / acre.

Many landowners are interested in purchasing horses and other livestock to graze their property.

A preponderance of evidence approach is used todetermine which of the five departure categories areselected as best fits by the evaluator(s) for each at-tribute. This decision is based in part on where themajority of the indicators for each attribute fall underthe five categories at the top of the worksheet.

that is affected by wind-scoured (including blowout) areas 8 and/or depositional areas in the comment section on page 2 of the evaluation sheet (Appendix 9 5). Table 12 provides generic descriptors of the five departure categories in the evaluation 10 matrix for wind-scoured and

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The methods described in the Core Methodsvolume are part of Step 8 in implementing a moni-toring program (Figure 3). Describing the anticipat-ed data analysis and interpretation of the monitoring data will also inform the characteristics of the moni-toring program design.

Cow (1000 lb.) = 1.0 AUE • Horse = 1.3 AUE • yearling cattle = 0.7 AUE • sheep = 0.2 AUE • goat = 0.2 AUE

Wind erodes unprotected soil resulting in dust and poor air quality. Water also erodes unprotected soil and increases sediment load in watersheds and decreases water quality. Poor grazing management can adversely affect neighboring landowners.

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