Vermont Resource Assessment Tools
for RMS Planning
This page provides the latest tools developed by the Vermont NRCS Resource
staff or adapted from other sources for use in RMS planning within Vermont.
The following documents require Microsoft
Excel,
Microsoft Word,
or Adobe
Acrobat
Farm *A
*Syst Worksheets Adobe Acrobat (PDF)
Farm*A*Syst, or Farmstead Assessment System, is a self-evaluation that
farmers and rural landowners can use to evaluate how on-farm management
practices and activities might be a risk to groundwater, and therefore the
farmer's drinking water supply.
Vermont NRCS resource assessment
tools adapted from Farm*A*Syst Worksheets:
Worksheet
#2 Assessment for Pesticide Storage, Handling and Application
(XLT; 114 KB)
Worksheet #4 Assessment for Petroleum Product Storage
(DOC; 52 KB)
Worksheet
#7 Assessment for Manure and Waste Storage (XLT;
73 KB)
Vermont
EGS Erosion Estimator (Ephemeral, Gully, Streambank) (XLT;
135 KB)
Vermont
Forage / Livestock Balance Worksheets
Forage
/ Livestock Balance Estimator (XLT; 145 KB)
Forage
Inventory and Allocation Worksheet (XLT; 140 KB)
RUSLE2
Field Data Collection Sheet (XLT; 8 KB)
This simple Excel spreadsheet is designed to help the conservation planner
capture the necessary field specific data needed to complete a RUSLE2
erosion calculation.
Pasture
Condition Scoring Sheet - Vermont (XLT; 35 KB)
This Excel Job Sheet is adapted from the University of Maine Livestock Team Online Grazing Course. It was designed for use by persons with different levels of technical ability. It can be used quickly and without tools, to visually estimate the condition and trend on grasslands.
Also Available in
PDF
Version (129 KB).
Quality
Criteria for Resource Management System Planning - Vermont (PDF;
189 KB)
Quality Criteria (QC) establishes the minimum treatment level necessary to
adequately address the resource concerns that are identified during the
planning process for development of a Resource Management System (RMS). The
RMS criteria are met when treatment has been planned that, when applied, will
resolve all of the identified resource problems according to the Quality
Criteria. The RMS will be considered applied when all of the conservation
practices that make up the system have been installed according to
Conservation Practice Standards in Section IV, VT eFOTG.
Resource
Inventory Assessment & CPA-52 Workbook - Vermont (XLT;
1,520 KB)
This workbook provides Vermont NRCS conservation planners a consistent process
to provide farmers and landowners with information related to resource
assessments which have been conducted, resource concerns which have been
identified, and conservation planning alternatives which are being presented
by the conservation planner. It also provides an updated Vermont CPA-52
document format.
Assessment Worksheet
for On-Farm Livestock Mortality Handling Facilities - Vermont
Excel
Version (XLT; 43 KB)
Adobe
PDF Version (PDF; 1,073 KB)
Water
Quality Indicators (Sediment) Worksheet 1B - Vermont (XLT;
60 KB)
Worksheet adapted from the Water Quality Indicators Guide. This tool
helps rate a field or area being evaluated into ratings of excellent, good,
fair or poor as related to their tendency to cause sedimentation (an excellent
rating is least likely to result in sedimentation concerns).
Stream
Temperature and Streambank Stability Worksheet - Vermont (XLT;
289 KB)
This worksheet helps determine if stream water temperature and streambank
stability meet Vermont Quality Criteria for Resource Management System
planning.
Wildlife
Habitat Assessment Worksheet - Vermont (XLT; 158 KB)
This evaluation tool will identify minimally acceptable wildlife habitat
conditions in planning units that will benefit a variety of species. Also
download the Wildlife Habitat Assessment Worksheet Instructions
document
(DOC; 67 KB)
Last
Modified: June 09, 2009
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