Natural Resources
Conservation Service
Circle-spoke model
Scenario model
Current land use
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Management practices/drivers
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No conversion pathway between the selected land uses has been described
Target land use
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Description
This land use is predominately used for grazingland or recreational use. This land use often requires fewer or less intensive inputs than other land use types. The rangeland land use includes both reference, unplowed rangeland as well as land that has been reseeded or repopulated to native species post-cultivation.
Submodel
Description
The site has been cultivated for the production of crops. Primary use is agronomic crop production.
Submodel
Description
The site has been replanted to introduced forage grasses after cultivation ceased. Primary use is livestock and/or hay production. Often, this land use is managed as a monoculture with little biotic diversity. However, in some cases, forb/legume/grass mixtures are maintained with may increase soil and ecosystem health.
Submodel
Mechanism
This land use conversion is the result of cultivation and planting of crops. Ecological processes are altered and the land is converted to an input based management system.
Mechanism
This land use conversion is achieved through reseeding native grasses and forbs in order to restore the site for livestock grazing or hay production. While the site may be converted back to a rangeland land use, some soil properties and ecological function may not return to pre-cultivation levels.
Mechanism
This land use conversion is the result of planting a perennial, introduced pasture grass. While still reliant on management inputs, grazing livestock or hay production is the primary objective of this land use.
Mechanism
This land use conversion is achieved through reseeding native grasses and forbs or allowing native species to repopulate the site by reducing management of introduced species. While the site may be converted back to a rangeland land use, some soil properties and ecological function may not return to pre-cultivation levels.
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Ecological sites
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