The Palmer Soil and water Conservation District offers a wide variety of services to cooperators and residents in our district. We encourage you to call upon us to answer your questions and help solve your conservation needs.
What about Conservation Plans?
We work with landowners to develop individualized plans for what practices and management behavior will best protect soil and water quality and plant and animal health. The conservation planning process looks at a number of tools landowners can use to meet their goals.
A conservation plan is a land management tool you use to manage your operation profitably while protecting the natural resources you have. Conservation planning is widely applied on farm land, but the same concepts are used to develop plans for forest conservation, water quality, and wildlife habitat. Anyone who manages farm or forest land, or manages more than an acre of land, should definitely consider developing a conservation plan.
What is involved in a conservation plan?
A complete conservation plan follows nine steps:
- Identify resource problems-what needs improving?
- Identify your objectives-what do you want your land to look like?
- Inventory resources-what is on the land now?
- Analyze resource inventory-what’s lacking?
- Develop alternative solutions-how can it be fixed?
- Evaluate alternative solutions-what solution is practical and effective?
- Make your decisions-what will you do?
- Implement plan-do it.
- Evaluate plan success and adjust as necessary-Is it working?
Why Should I Develop a Conservation Plan?
Conservation plans can save you money over the long term as your land becomes more productive; it can also increase your property’s value. You’ll improve the health of your animals and help your crop, plants and trees by removing invasive weeds.
