Managing Beef Cattle To Protect Lakes and Rivers

摘要

Everything Goes Together How pasture management and hydrology interact to affect nutrient dynamics and water quality has become an issue of increasing importance to environmentalists, ranchers, and public officials. Long-term monitoring of changes in soil nutrients, especially phosphorus, helps the STARS soil scientists to predict soil chemical buildup or physical deterioration that could occur under continuous forage-livestock cultivation and to adopt measures to prevent them from happening.