(U.S. Department of Agriculture)

The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service is a unit of the U.S. Department of Interior. Its mission is working with others to conserve, protect, and enhance fish, wildlife, and plants and their habitats for the continuing benefit of the American people. The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service offers a program called

The U.S. Forest Service is a unit of the U.S. Department of Agriculture. The Forest Service manages public lands in national forests and grasslands. The Forest Service works to have quality land management under the sustainable, multiple-use management concept and provides technical and financial assistance to state and private forestry agencies. The U.S. Forest Service has several programs to help landowners develop sustainable forestry practices. These programs include technical assistance, easement opportunities, and cost-share payments.

Complete removal of deadening of older trees having no merchantable values because of species, size, or condition to improve growing conditions for desired understory species.

A parcel of agricultural land that has nature resource conditions that are of interest to the participant.

Code by which laws are registered

An erosion model designed to predict the long-term average soil losses in runoff from specific field areas in specified cropping and management systems.

The unsheltered distance along the prevailing wind erosion direction across the field or area to be evaluated.

Refers to land that is not wetland or deepwater habitat.

Land that consists of residential, industrial, commercial, and institutional land; construction sites, public administrative sites, railroad yards, cemeteries, airports, golf courses, sanitary landfills, sewage treatment plants, water control structures and spillways, other land used for such purposes, small parks, and highways, railroads, and other transportation facilities if they are surrounded by urban areas.