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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