Monitoring Tool Box Worksheets

Monitoring Tool Box Worksheets

The Monitoring Tool Box was designed by a team of farmers and others who strove to provide a useful document, one that could be worked "on the ground" by ordinary land owners who nevertheless care plenty for their natural and human resource base. The team understood that having a goal was more valuable if change was noted along the way. This aspect of monitoring—the recording of what is happening—is a critical one and is often overlooked.

Within each chapter, along with the why-fors and what-next of monitoring things like frog counts, grass species, or your family's fun factor, you will find worksheets to help you move forward. Examples include exercises in goal setting, charts for bird counts, indicators of soil aggregation, and pictures of macroinvertebrae in your pond.

We've put them here, too, because the Monitoring Team means for you to use them. Print them and keep them in your notebook for referencing next year and later, pass them on to encourage others. Writing things down really helps us see where we are going and how (or whether!) that fits with our goals.

Pasture Vegetation Chapter Worksheets

The newly released (Summer 2000) Pasture Vegetation Chapter includes 8 worksheets, reproduced here for your convenience. Note: All worksheets are in PDF format and can be viewed with Adobe® Acrobat® Reader.

Grazing Monitoring Record Sheet
Grazing Monitoring Year-End Summary Sheet
Ground Cover Worksheet: Square Yard Frame
Frame Method Plant Survey Form
Tape Method Plant Survey Form
Five-Year Summary Sheet
Pasture Clippings Worksheet
Forage Monitoring Record Sheet

Worksheets for other chapters of the Tool Box will be available later this year.