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Conservation System Guides June 13, 2005

Conservation System Guides June 13, 2005. Anthony Burns Technology Specialist East National Technology Support Center Greensboro, NC. Conservation System Guides. What are they? How are we using them? Where are we going with them? Why is all of this so confusing?. Overview. Discussion of:

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Conservation System Guides June 13, 2005

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  1. Conservation System GuidesJune 13, 2005 Anthony BurnsTechnology SpecialistEast National Technology Support CenterGreensboro, NC

  2. Conservation System Guides • What are they? • How are we using them? • Where are we going with them? • Why is all of this so confusing?

  3. Overview • Discussion of: • Policy, history, activities, and current status of Common Resource Areas (CRAs), Conservation System Guides (CSGs), and Conservation Systems (CSs).

  4. Common Resource Area • A subdivision of a MLRA, where resource concerns, problems, and treatment needs are similar. Landscape conditions, soil, climate, human considerations, and other natural resource information is used to determine the geographical boundaries of the common resource area.

  5. Common Resource Area • CRA framework makes information easily accessible to all users of NRCS FOTG information: employees, clients, partners, and TSPs • Information can be arranged according to resources and resource needs other than what is possible with conventional political unit frameworks.

  6. Conservation System Guide • A CSG is a collection of information replacing the conservation system guidance found in Section III of the FOTG, with additional information concerning conservation system effects.

  7. Conservation System • A combination of conservation practices and resource management for the treatment of soil, water, air, plant, and/or animal resource concerns.

  8. What does this really mean andwhy are we doing this?

  9. Conservation System GuidesandConservation Systems • Relationship of Conservation System Guides to Conservation Systems • Linked to Conservation Toolkit, CSGs provide key information regarding planning alternatives • GSG information can be linked to other applications such as Performance

  10. Integration Field Office Business Tools

  11. Field Operations to Performance Outcomes Customer Contact Technical Assistance Provided Conservation Journal, WebTCAS, Toolkit, Protracts, PRS PHYSICAL EFFECT exported from CRAs,Conservation System Guides NRI-CEAP utilizes information to refine outcome models OUTPUTS (Ex. Tons of sediment Planned to be reduced) PERFORMANCE MEASURES (Ex. Reduced soil erosion on ___ acres of working lands) OUTCOMES (Ex. By 2007, reduce sedimentation to avoid $___ of on-site and off-site damages.)

  12. Role of CSGs? • Primary Purpose – Planning Tool • Save data input time • Provide conservation system information to employees, partners, and public • Training tool • Secondary Purpose – To Provide for automatic collection of impact data

  13. Policy and Guidance • GM – Planning Policy – GM 180, 409 • GM Title 450 Part 401 (Technical Guides) • National Planning Procedure Handbook (NPPH) – RMS Guidance

  14. Policy and Guidance • The Chief’s 8/13/03 memo to establish National Coordinated CRA Maps. • NSSC 9/11/03 guidance and instructions on CRA delineations. • 10/9/03 National Bulletin to develop CSGs & place in FOTG. • PRS 10/31/03 Newsflash and instructions on establishing CSGs. • NSSC 11/12/03 guidance and instructions on CRA delineations. • 6/14/04 National Bulletin.

  15. More CSG Policy • Policy not current with requirements, especially for CRAs and CSGs. • Formation of National CSG Team • National Leaders are Norm Widman and Anthony Burns. • Business rules and recommendations for CRAs and CSGs.

  16. Policy and Guidance • Planning Environment • Resources • Social and Cultural • Business/Economics • Environmental

  17. Conservation System Guides

  18. Conservation Systems

  19. Resource Concerns and Conservation Impacts

  20. Conservation Impacts

  21. Conservation Impacts

  22. Status • 1350 CRAs • 18,200 Conservation System Guides • 5900 Cropland • 2800 Pasture • 2000 Grazed Range • 2000 Wildlife • 1400 Headquarters

  23. Current Status • 35,000 Conservation Systems • 31000 RMS • 3900 Progressive

  24. National Conservation Planning Database

  25. National Conservation Planning Database • Conservation plans:   620,683 • Conservation plan land units: 3,886,465 • Geospatial planning land units:  762,656 • Conservation practice records: 10,960,951 • Contracts: 17,064 NCPD as of 5/13/05

  26. Issues • No magic number of CSs or CSGs. • Use of automated impact data reporting,Is “typical” average good enough? • Reasonable uniformity between states. • Emphasize CSGs as a starting point for on-site conservation planning which requires a decision support tool linking practices to resource concerns.

  27. Issues • 79 Resource Concerns of which 45 are non-measurable. • Improve our Quality Criteria • meaningful, measurable, manageable

  28. Future • More intelligent system of building the relationship between systems, resource concerns and conservation effects. • CRA Revision • Integration of Conservation Effects Assessment Project (CEAP) Integration and Conservation Practice Physical Effects (CPPE)

  29. Future • Program Budgeting • Next generation workload analysis • Economics and cost analysis

  30. Thank You

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