Conservation Effects Assessment Project
CEAP Grazing Lands
Assessment
CEAP — Building the Science
Base for Conservation
Science based conservation is the key to
managing agricultural landscapes for
environmental quality.
The Conservation Effects Assessment
Project (CEAP) is a multi-agency effort
to scientifically quantify the environ-
mental benefits of conservation practices
used by private landowners participating
in U.S. Department of Agriculture
(USDA) and other conservation pro-
grams. Project findings will guide
USDA conservation policy and program
development and help farmers and
ranchers to make informed conservation
choices.
The three principal components of
CEAP — the national assessment, the
watershed assessment studies, and the
bibliographies and literature reviews —
contribute to the evolving process of
building the science base for conserva-
tion. That process includes research,
monitoring and data collection, model-
ing, and assessment.
The technologies that NRCS brings to
our technical assistance on rangeland,
pastureland, and grazed forestland are
built upon the scientific understanding
developed by our federal agency part-
ners, land grant universities, non-
governmental organizations and other
cooperators and scientists.
Because fish and wildlife are affected by
conservation actions on a variety of
landscapes on grazing lands, CEAP will
carefully examine these interactions.
Grazing Lands Coordinator:
Leonard Jolley
leonard.jolley@wdc.usda.gov
CEAP Website:
www.nrcs.usda.gov/technical/NRI/ceap
December 2006
United States Department of Agriculture
Natural Resources Conservation Service
Helping People Help the Land
CEAP Complements GLCI
The Grazing Lands Conservation Initia-
tive (GLCI) has had, for several years, a
primary focus of increasing the technical
assistance available on the ground in the
form of skilled rangeland and pasture-
land specialists to work with priv