HOW TO USE THE STANDARDS 



1. Examine the range in the fall at the beginning of the new 

 growing season. If examinations are made earlier, allow- 

 ances should be made for any utilization or loss of forage 

 by drying, crumbling, and blowing away that may take place 

 up to the start of the new growing season. 



2. Examine all portions of the range thoroughly enough to get 

 a good cross section of use. (Where practicable judge 

 small or similar units of the range separately, such as 

 fenced pastures, forage types within pastures, hillsides, 

 or other areas, and summarize these separate units for an 

 estimate of the whole range.) 



3. Compare the use you see on each range unit with photo- 

 graphs 1 to 6 and decide which photograph most nearly 

 matches it. 



4. Examine the range more closely for specific indicators of 

 degree of use (described on pages 8 to 10) to check and if 

 necessary to adjust the first estimate you made when you 

 compared the range with the photographs in a general way. 



5. Carefully observe the condition of the range (pages 11 to 

 13) . Be sure that you are judging current use and not the 

 condition of the range. 



6. From the photographs and accompanying descriptions (page 8) 

 rate the use of the range unit as a whole by number, from 

 to 100, using the scale on page 5. 



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