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<blockquote data-quote="Mark Reynolds" data-source="post: 1852024" data-attributes="member: 43196"><p>I've got to resurrect this thread. As a conservation planner that gets to address resource concerns on a daily basis, and also be treated as if I'm a banker handing out free money (many people think that with me working for the government), the list I could add here would get pretty long. Here is one I've had put before me a few times, but this one is a bit extreme. Here's the scenario:</p><p></p><p>I was handed a conservation plan written by a planner that does not work for my agency (the planner should know better than this...you'll see....but this is what I got). The plan was handed to my by a district conservationist (fellow employee) and I was asked what the DC should plan:</p><p></p><p>The plan was for a grazing operation that had listed on the plan the following:</p><p>5 full grown cows (the plan stated these are/were full grown cows but weighed ONLY 600 lbs each???)</p><p>40 pigs that weighed 350 lbs each.</p><p>several goats</p><p>The land area the animals are on TOTALED 6 acres.</p><p>ALL the animals are free roaming year round.</p><p></p><p>The DC was asking how to implement the conservation plan written by the planner that consisted of replanting the 6 acres with cover crops and perennial grasses.</p><p></p><p>Can someone please tell me that I'm not the only one seeing that there is AT LEAST 7 times the maximum number of animals being maintained on this piece of ground that it POSSIBLY could hold to successfully grow even a single blade of grass? Add to that a planner that is supposed to know what he is doing wrote this plan, with suggested 'improvement measures' that could be paid for, and then the plan was handed to me by a district conservationist who should also know better. NEITHER of these professionals noticed the elephant in the room of the sheer number of animals on the property that makes any improvement an impossibility.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Mark Reynolds, post: 1852024, member: 43196"] I've got to resurrect this thread. As a conservation planner that gets to address resource concerns on a daily basis, and also be treated as if I'm a banker handing out free money (many people think that with me working for the government), the list I could add here would get pretty long. Here is one I've had put before me a few times, but this one is a bit extreme. Here's the scenario: I was handed a conservation plan written by a planner that does not work for my agency (the planner should know better than this...you'll see....but this is what I got). The plan was handed to my by a district conservationist (fellow employee) and I was asked what the DC should plan: The plan was for a grazing operation that had listed on the plan the following: 5 full grown cows (the plan stated these are/were full grown cows but weighed ONLY 600 lbs each???) 40 pigs that weighed 350 lbs each. several goats The land area the animals are on TOTALED 6 acres. ALL the animals are free roaming year round. The DC was asking how to implement the conservation plan written by the planner that consisted of replanting the 6 acres with cover crops and perennial grasses. Can someone please tell me that I'm not the only one seeing that there is AT LEAST 7 times the maximum number of animals being maintained on this piece of ground that it POSSIBLY could hold to successfully grow even a single blade of grass? Add to that a planner that is supposed to know what he is doing wrote this plan, with suggested 'improvement measures' that could be paid for, and then the plan was handed to me by a district conservationist who should also know better. NEITHER of these professionals noticed the elephant in the room of the sheer number of animals on the property that makes any improvement an impossibility. [/QUOTE]
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