Table 5-1 Producer Participation Goals and Adaptive Management for Low Participation Participation Goal: Promote producer participation in VSP on agriculture lands for the protection of critical areas to meet protection benchmarks and/or enhancement goals while maintaining the long-term viability of agriculture in Garfield County. Objective/Benchmarks Performance Cause/Adaptive Adaptive Management Who When Metric/Monitoring Method Management Threshold Action Monitors Key practice not consistent with Identify alternative practices Mapping and aerial photo agriculture viability with similar functions evaluation and/or rapid watershed Sufficient active participation by assessment of practices in place Incentive associated with key Identify alternative funding or Number of acres reported in key agriculture operators (farm and strategy and practice no longer practices that could be stewardship strategies and ranchers) over 10 years that achieve available implemented practices protection of critical areas function Number of VSP self-assessment Inadequate self-reporting of Increase outreach and values at the County level. checklists completed voluntary participation Sufficient producer participation Monitored every Key practices less applicable Develop practices with similar necessary to meet protection year functions benchmarks and enhancement VSP Reported during Self-funded and practice Identify alternative funding goals. Coordinator the 2-year status implementation difficult reports and 5-year Passive participation by agriculture Decline below the annual Increase outreach to producers Mapping and aerial photo PCD performance operators in VSP stewardship average stewardship strategies evaluation and/or rapid watershed reports assessment of practices in place strategies and practices is and practice rate identified in Random sampling of farms and maintained or increased over 10 Table 3-5 ranches in the field by VSP years Coordinator and willing landowners Technical assistance and outreach is Decline below the annual Increase outreach to producers provided to agriculture producers to average stewardship strategies Number of outreach and education encourage stewardship strategies and practice rate identified in events and practices and VSP participation Table 3-5 Number of event attendees Table 5-2 Adaptive Management Process for Stewardship Strategies and Practice Participation Adaptive Management Trigger (120% Protection Adaptive Management Who Protection Type Adaptive Management Objective Metric Verification Action Monitors When Metric)
Table 5-1 Producer Participation Goals and Adaptive Management for Low Participation Participation Goal: Promote producer participation in VSP on agriculture lands for the protection of critical areas to meet protection benchmarks and/or enhancement goals while maintaining the long-term viability of agriculture in Garfield County. Objective/Benchmarks Performance Metric/Monitoring Method Cause/Adaptive Management Threshold Adaptive Management Action Who Monitors When Sufficient active participation by agriculture operators (farm and ranchers) over 10 years that achieve protection of critical areas function and values at the County level. Mapping and aerial photo evaluation and/or rapid watershed assessment of practices in place Number of acres reported in key stewardship strategies and practices Number of VSP self-assessment checklists completed Sufficient producer participation necessary to meet protection benchmarks and enhancement goals. Key practice not consistent with agriculture viability Identify alternative practices with similar functions VSP Coordinator PCD Monitored every year Reported during the 2-year status reports and 5-year performance reports Incentive associated with key strategy and practice no longer available Identify alternative funding or practices that could be implemented Inadequate self-reporting of voluntary participation Increase outreach Key practices less applicable Develop practices with similar functions Self-funded and practice implementation difficult Identify alternative funding Passive participation by agriculture operators in VSP stewardship strategies and practices is maintained or increased over 10 years Mapping and aerial photo evaluation and/or rapid watershed assessment of practices in place Random sampling of farms and ranches in the field by VSP Coordinator and willing landowners Decline below the annual average stewardship strategies and practice rate identified in Table 3-5 Increase outreach to producers Technical assistance and outreach is provided to agriculture producers to encourage stewardship strategies and practices and VSP participation Number of outreach and education events Number of event attendees Decline below the annual average stewardship strategies and practice rate identified in Table 3-5 Increase outreach to producers Table 5-2 Adaptive Management Process for Stewardship Strategies and Practice Participation Type Adaptive Management Objective Protection Metric Verification Adaptive Management Trigger (120% Protection Metric) Adaptive Management Action Who Monitors When