Products Derived from Gathered Data

NRCS Reports

• 2018 Pastureland Resource Assessment
• 2018 Rangeland Resource Assessment

Landowner resources

• Reports for Landowners

Plants

• Plants Observed During NRI Grazingland On-Site Data Collection (updated August 2023)
• Annuals Observed on Rangeland

ESD/PSGD Development Tables

• Ecological Site Description Development Table Download Site
• Pasture State Group Description Development Table Download Site

Other Uses

• Landscape Fire and Resource Management Planning Tools (LANDFIRE)
• Rangeland Analysis Platform (RAP)
• Rangeland Brush Estimation Tool (RaBET)

Scientific Research

• Spaeth, K.E., P.J. Barbour, R. Moranz, S.J. Dinsmore, and C.J. Williams. 2022. Asclepias dynamics on US rangelands: implications for conservation of monarch butterflies and other insects. Ecosphere 13(1):e03816. 10.002/ecs2.
• Meki, M. N., Osorio-Leyton, J., Steglich, E. M., Kiniry, J. R., Propato, M., Winchell, M., ... & Norfleet, L. M. (2023). Plant parameterization and APEXgraze model calibration and validation for US land resource region H grazing lands. Agricultural Systems, 207, 103631.
• Saeedimoghaddam, M., Nearing, G., Goodrich, D. C., Hernandez, M., Guertin, D. P., Metz, L. J., ... & Barker, S. (2024). An artificial neural network to estimate the foliar and ground cover input variables of the Rangeland Hydrology and Erosion Model. Journal of Hydrology, 130835.
• Jones, M. O., Robinson, N. P., Naugle, D. E., Maestas, J. D., Reeves, M. C., Lankston, R. W., & Allred, B. W. (2021). Annual and 16-day rangeland production estimates for the western United States. Rangeland Ecology & Management, 77, 112-117.

NRCS State Examples (please send examples for other states' awareness)

• Under development