Range Forage Data Base for 20 Great Plains, Southern, and Western States

摘要

The paper documents the development and structure of the Range Forage data base, a subset of information from all Soil Conservation Service Range Site Descriptions for 20 states. Information in the data set includes range site name, location identifiers, total annual production, soil information, and initial stocking level rates. Data is accessible via tape from the USDA Fort Collins, Computer Center. The data can be used to analyze range site productivity within a state, between states or across regions.