Rangeland Health Assessment for East Castle Creek Allotment No. 00893. Final Report

摘要

This Rangeland Health Assessment is meant to describe modifications to previous grazing practices and update condition and trend descriptions within East Castle Creek Allotment since the release of the Castle Creek Allotment Final Analysis, Interpretation, and Evaluation (AIE) dated September 1997. The AIE findings addressed Management Framework Plan (MFP) objectives because Standards for Rangeland Health and Guidelines for Livestock Grazing Practices (S&Gs) had only been formalized for Idaho in the previous month, and no directives existed for implementing S&Gs in Idaho at the time. An evaluation of the Bruneau MFP objectives as they related to previous grazing management in the East Castle Creek Allotment is provided in Section VI of the Castle Creek Allotment Final AIE (1997). Updated data were collected from 1998 through 2007 and are presented in this document, along with a summary of pertinent AIE findings to provide a context for recent observations.