@proceedings {JRN54681,
	title = {The rangeland management and soil health connection},
	year = {2017},
	month = {01//2017},
	address = {St. George, UT.},
	abstract = {<div>
	Soil health is defined as the capacity of soil to function and provide ecosystem services to society. \&nbsp;The importance of managing for the improvement and maintenance of soil health transcends political boundaries, generations, societies and languages. \&nbsp;The challenge of communicating soil health concepts and motivating action lies in the incredible complexity of soil types, land uses, management practices and ecosystem services. \&nbsp;Developing and implementing a successful institutional soil health effort requires credible approaches to determine baseline conditions, accurately measure change over management-relevant time, identify threats and establish relationships to human and natural drivers. \&nbsp;While soil health indicators are a valuable addition to the assessment of rangelands, they are merely one of several necessary attributes required to develop a true picture. \&nbsp;Developing and applying indicators of soil health (or any indicator) on rangelands is entirely context dependent. \&nbsp;That context is provided by Ecological Sites and is organized, interpreted and communicated via Ecological Site Descriptions (particularly State and Transition Models). \&nbsp;This approach will allow us to develop a protocol for the site specific assessment of the economic value of soil health improvement.\&nbsp;</div>
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	author = {Joel R. Brown and Jeffrey E. Herrick}
}
