Characteristics, presence of erosional features, and cover of vegetation and bare ground on fields formerly enrolled in grassland, wetland, and wildlife practices of the Conservation Reserve Program in the central and western United States from 2017 to 2018

Data included in this data set are from edge-of-field surveys that recorded the presence of erosional features, cover of vegetation and bare ground, and management activities (e.g., haying) on 1092 fields that had expired from three types of conservation practices (grassland, wetland, and wildlife) in the Conservation Reserve Program. Field sampling data were recorded across six US Department of Agriculture Farm Production Regions (Corn belt, Lake states, Mountain, Northern plains, Pacific, Southern plains) from 2017 to 2018. The study area encompassed all or part of 14 states: Washington, Oregon, Idaho, Montana, North Dakota, South Dakota, Minnesota, Iowa, Missouri, Colorado, Nebraska, Kansas, Oklahoma, and Texas....

Categories: Data; Tags: CRP, Central United States, Colorado, Conservation Reserve Program, Idaho, All tags... Iowa, Kansas, Land Use Change, Minnesota, Missouri, Montana, Nebraska, North Dakota, Oklahoma, Oregon, South Dakota, Texas, USGS Science Data Catalog (SDC), Washington, Western United States, bare soil, biota, canopy cover, ecosystems, erosion, grass management, grassland ecosystems, grazing, gullies, haying, mowing, native forbs, native grasses, noxious forbs, noxious grasses, pedastaling, rills, Fewer tags

Percent vegetation cover, bare ground and presence of erosional features on managed Conservation Reserve Program fields across central and western United States, 2016-2019

Data included in this data set are from edge-of-field surveys of managed fields that recorded the presence of erosional features and cover of vegetation and bare ground on 320 Conservation Reserve Program (CRP) fields across central and western United States. Field sampling data was recorded across six US Department of Agriculture Farm Production Regions (Corn belt, Lake states, Mountain, Northern plains, Pacific, Southern plains) from 2016 to 2019. The study area encompassed all or part of 14 states: Washington, Oregon, Idaho, Montana, North Dakota, South Dakota, Minnesota, Iowa, Missouri, Colorado, Nebraska, Kansas, Oklahoma, and Texas. Complete methods and other additional information are provided in the journal...

Categories: Data; Tags: Central United States, Colorado, Conservation Reserve Program, Ecology, Idaho, All tags... Iowa, Kansas, Land Use Change, Minnesota, Missouri, Montana, Nebraska, North Dakota, Oklahoma, Oregon, South Dakota, Texas, USGS Science Data Catalog (SDC), Washington, Western United States, bare soil, biota, canopy cover, erosion, grazing, gullies, haying, mowing, native forbs, native grasses, noxious forbs, noxious grasses, pedestaling, rills, Fewer tags

Conversion of CRP Grasslands to Cropland, Grazing Lands, or Hayland: Effects on Breeding Bird Abundances in the Northern Great Plains, 1996-2017, data release

The data set consists of bird abundance data collected in undisturbed grassland fields enrolled in the Conservation Reserve Program (CRP) and former CRP fields that were converted to cropland, grazing land, or hayland in nine counties in four states (Montana, North Dakota, South Dakota, and Minnesota) in the northern Great Plains. The study was initiated in 1990, but data were only included in this dataset for the 18 years in which all three of the post-CRP management practices occurred, i.e., 1996–2003 and 2008–2017. The data were summarized and used in the analysis for a peer-reviewed publication entitled: "Conversion of CRP Grasslands to Cropland, Grazing Lands, or Hayland: Effects on Breeding Bird Abundances."...

Categories: Data; Tags: Agricultural land, Biota, CRP, Conservation Reserve Program, Crop fields, All tags... Ecology, Farm Bill, Farming, Grassland birds, Grassland management, Grasslands, Grazing, Management, Minnesota, Montana, Mowing, North Dakota, South Dakota, USGS Science Data Catalog (SDC), Wildlife Biology, biodiversity, birds, grassland ecosystems, Fewer tags