{"id":35469,"date":"2013-09-24T07:30:39","date_gmt":"2013-09-24T14:30:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dev-clm-blog.pantheonsite.io\/?p=35469"},"modified":"2013-09-24T07:30:39","modified_gmt":"2013-09-24T14:30:39","slug":"pasture-picture","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.clminternship.org\/?p=35469","title":{"rendered":"Pasture picture"},"content":{"rendered":"

I had the opportunity to assist in a few rangeland health assessments with our range peoples in the office lately.\u00a0 This was a great new experience and another weapon in the arsenal of experience this internship has given me.\u00a0 These rangeland health assessments are done as part of the permit renewal on pasture allotments every ten years.\u00a0 The assessment consists of evaluating seventeen attributes of an area such as hydrology, erosion, and biotic integrity.\u00a0 The process starts by running a point step transect with one hundred points and marking what was hit on a form.\u00a0 Next hooping and clipping is done to measure productivity and then the seventeen attributes can be assessed.\u00a0 The process is a mixture of quantitative and qualitative data used to give an idea of the pastures quality at that point in time.\u00a0 The assessment is not used to measure what management practices should be taken on the land, it is simply a picture in time of the condition of the pasture.\u00a0 The assessments are done multiple times throughout the pasture allotment the areas are selected randomly in order to get a representative idea of the pasture allotment.\u00a0 Until next time people of the internet!\u00a0 <\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I had the opportunity to assist in a few rangeland health assessments with our range peoples in the office lately.\u00a0 This was a great new experience and another weapon in the arsenal of experience this internship has given me.\u00a0 These … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2502,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.clminternship.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35469"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.clminternship.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.clminternship.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.clminternship.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2502"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.clminternship.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=35469"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/blog.clminternship.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35469\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":39225,"href":"https:\/\/blog.clminternship.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35469\/revisions\/39225"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.clminternship.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=35469"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.clminternship.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=35469"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.clminternship.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=35469"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}