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Conservation Practice:	Definition:
Access Road	A travel-way for equipment and vehicles.
Animal Trails and Walkways	Established lanes or travel ways that facilitate animal movement.
Barnyard Water Management System	A system to reduce, collect & treat runoff from a barnyard area.
Clearing and Snagging	Removing snags, drifts, or other obstuctions from a channel.
Conservation Cover	Establishing and maintaining permanent vegetative cover to protect soil and water resources.
Conservation Crop Rotation	Growing crops in a recurring sequence on the same field.
Constructed Wetlands	A constructed shallow water ecosystem designed to simulate natural wetlands.
Contour Buffer Strips	Narrow strips of permanent, herbaceous vegetative cover established across the slope and alternated down the slope with parallel, wider cropped strips.
Contour Farming	Tillage, planting, and other farming operations performed on or near the countour of the field slope.
Cover Crop	Grasses, legumes, forbs, or other herbaceous plants established for seasonal cover and conservation purposes.
Critical Area Planting	Establishing permanent vegetation on sites that have or are expected to have high erosion rates and on sites that have been recently been disturbed.
Dike	A barrier constructed of earth or manufactured materials.
Diversion	A channel contructed across the sloped generally with a supporting ridge on the lower side.
Dry Hydrant	A non-pressurized permanent pipe assembly system installed into water source that permits the withdrawal of water by suction.
Feed Management	Managing the quanity of available nutrients fed to livestock and poultry for their intended purpose.
Fence	A constructed barrier to animals or people.
Filter Strip	A strip or area of vegetation for removing sediment, organic matter, and other pollutants from runoff and waste water.
Fishpond Management	Managing impounded water for the poduction of fish or other aquatic organisms.
Grassed Waterway	A natural or constructed channel that is shaped or graded to required dimensions and established in suitable vegetation for the stable conveyance of runoff.
Heavy Use Area Protection	Protecting heavily used areas by establishing vegetative cover, by surfacing with suitable materials, or by isntalling needed structures.
Land Clearing	Removing trees, stumps, and other vegetation from wooded areas.
Lined Waterway or Outlet	A waterway or outlet having an erosion resistant lining of concrete, stone, synthetic turf reinforcement fabrics or other permanent material.
Manure Transfer	A manure conveyance system using structures, conduits or equipment.
Milkhouse Wastewater Infiltration Area	A component of a waste management system that will remove pollutants from milking center wastewater throug a variety of processes.
Nutrient Management	Managing the amount, source, placement, form and timing of the application of nutrients & soil amendments.
Pasture & Hayland Planting	The establishment of longterm stands of adapted species of perennial, biennial, or reseeding forage plants.
Pathogen Management	Providing mulitple barriers to the introduction, replication and survival of pathogens in domestic livestock and transport of pathogens to surface and groundwater resources.
Pest Management	Utilizing environmentally sensitive prevention, avoidance,monitoring and suppression strategies, to manage weeds, insects, diseases, animals and other organisms that directly or indirectly cause damage or annoyance.
Pipeline	Pipeline having an inside diameter of 8 inches or less.
Pond	A water impoundment made by constructing an embankment or by excavating a pit or dugout.
Pothole	An excavated depression or series of depressions in the landscape, characterized by shallow water habitat.
Prescribed Grazing	Managing the controlled harvest of vegetation with grazing animals.
Pumping Plant for Water Control	A pumping facility installed to transfer water of a conservation need.
Riparian Forest Buffer	An area of trees and/or shrubs located adjacent to and up-gradient from water bodies.
Riparian Herbaceous Cover	Riparian areas are ecosystems that occur along water courses or at the fringe of water bodies. Riparian herbaceous cover consist of grasses, grasslike plants, and forbs.
Roof Runoff Structure	A facility for collecting, controlling, and disposing of runoff water from roofs.
Spring Development	Utilizing springs and seeps to provide water for a conservation need.
Stream Crossing	A stabilized area or structure constructed across a stream to provide a travel way for people, livestock, equipment, or vehicles.
Stream Habitat Improvement & Management	Maintain, improve, or restore physical, chemical, and biological functions of a stream.
Streambank & Shoreline Protection	Using vegetation or structures to stabilize and protect banks of streams, lakes, estuaries, or excavated channels against scour and erosion.
Stripcropping - Contour	Strip cropping is the practice of growing alternate stips of diffreent crops in the same field. The crops are arranged so that a strip of grass or a slose-growing crop is alternated with a row crop.
Structure for Water Control	A structure in an irrigation, rainage, or other water management systems that conveys water, controls the direction or rate of flow, or maintains a desired water surface elevation.
Subsurface Drainage	A conduit, such a corrugated plastic tubing, tile or pip, installed beneath the ground surface to collect and/or convey drainage water.
Tree/Shrub Establishment	Establishing woody plants by planting seedling or cuttings, direct seeding, or natural regeneration.
Underground Outlet	A conduit installed beneath the surface of the ground to collect surface water and convey it to a suitable outlet.
Use Exclusion	Excluding animals, people or vehicles from an area.
Waste Storage Facility	A waste impoundment made by constructing an embankment and/or excavating a pit or dugout, or by fabricating a structure.
Water and Sediment Control Basin	An earth embankment or a combination ridge and channel generally constructed across the slope and minor watercourses to form a sediment trap and water detention basin.
Water Well	A hole drilled, dug, driven, bored, jetted or otherwise constructed to an aquifer.
Watering Facility	A device, (tank, trough, or other watertight container) for providing animal access to water.
Wetland Creation	A wetland that has been created on a site location which historicaly was not a wetland or is a wetland but the site will be converted to a wetland with a different hydrology, begetation type, or fuction than naturally occurred on the site.
Wetland Enhancement	The modification or rehabilitation of an existing or degraded wetland, where specific functions and/or values are modified for the purpsoe of meeting specific project objectives. Some functions may remain unchanged while others may be degraded.