The USDA-NRCS Regenerative Pilot Program requires that soil health testing be completed as part of all contracts enrolled in the program. The following list of labs is provided as a
Our partners at Point Blue Conservation Science published a new guide on wildlife monitoring on working lands. This guide is geared towards landowners, agricultural technical service providers, and community scientists
“Decades of scientific research on grazing and soil organic carbon (SOC) has failed to form a cohesive understanding of how grazing management affects SOC stocks–characterized by different formation and stabilization
A new soil health guide for Napa Valley vineyards is here! The guide summarizes the results of two studies conducted by the Soil Health and Biodiversity Lab at the UC
Utilization levels and residual height are tools for adaptive management, not management objectives. Utilization/residual measurements are subject to many sources of sampling, procedural and personal errors. Season of measurement has
Residual dry matter (RDM) is a standard used by land management agencies for assessing the level of grazing use on annual rangeland and associated savannas and woodlands (George et al.
Residual dry matter (RDM) is a standard used by land management agencies for assessing the level of grazing use on annual rangeland and associated savannas and woodlands. RDM is the
Healthy soils are fundamental to sustainable rangelands, but soils function in obscurity. This is reflected in the below ground black-box mentality often attributed to soils. Transformational changes get the attention
Cattle play an important role in wildfire management by grazing fuel on California rangelands. The benefits of cattle grazing have not been thoroughly explored, though. Fire behavior is characterized in
In this paper, the authors explore some of the key elements of soil health on rangelands, discuss what the ideas mean in real-world settings, and synthesize some of the conclusions
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