To: Homestead mailing list digest <homestead AT lists.ibiblio.org>
Subject: Re: [Homestead] Trashland Treasure
Date: Wed, 18 Oct 2006 17:00:11 -0700
The NRCS is a branch of the USDA:
[Carrying capacity is the maximum number of animal units of grazing and
browsing animals that a particular parcel of grazing land can sustain
over time without degrading soil, water, and native vegetative
resources. (Society of Range Management 1989)] USDA-NRCS has guides that
will give reasonable estimates of carrying capacity for most rangelands.
In addition, procedures by Holechek (1988) and Troxel & White (1989) can
be used to determine carrying capacity.