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Field Office Technical Guide

Section V - Conservation Effects

Introduction

The purpose of this section is to assess the effects of conservation practices when assisting New Mexico land users in making informed decisions. With a display of conservation effects, suitable Conservation Management Systems (CMS) can be formulated to protect the resource base and to address both the land user's and society's social, cultural resources and economic objectives.

In addition, this section is to serve as a source of appropriate procedures and methods for collecting, analyzing and displaying conservation effects data.

Collecting conservation effects data is a long-term effort to be undertaken by each field office as part of the follow-up effort in the planning process. Section V has some examples of how these effects can be displayed.

Subject

STGC Review Date
Effects for CMS Formulation
  1. General Effects Data - Conservation Practice Physical Effects (CPPE):
  2. Effects for Guidance Documents-Conservation Treatment Information

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Effects for Decision-making
  1. Producer Experiences
  2. Other Effects Information

7-02

Procedural References
  1. Case Study Development and Use

  • Farmer Selection

  • Information and Data Collection

  • Types of Case Studies

  • Effects VS Impacts

  • Information Display

  • Multi-year Rotations

  • Potential Problems with Case Studies

  1. Summary and Conclusions

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