• Rangeland Monitoring: Seventeen Indicators of Rangeland Health
• Transitions: Adaptive Rangeland Health Monitoring
• Monitoring Rangeland Health
• 2008 Summary Report of of the Rangeland Monitoring Program

Other Related Sites

• Northern Great Plains Section Society for Range Management
• Society for Range Management

Web Soil Survey

The web soil survey will allow you to look at the soils on your property. This will help you to identify the ecological range sites on your land so you can look up the range site description in the Ecological Web Site listed below.Click here to access the Web Soil Survey

Ecological Sites in North Dakota

Ecological Site Instructions

Follow the instructions below to access ecological sites for the area of interest:

• Select a county.
• On the next screen, click on section "II" of  the menu which should automatically list.  The menu runs a Java applet so if you don't see the menu, you may have to download and install Java from http://java.com/en/download/index.jsp.  This is an easy and painless process.
• Scroll down on the menu tree and you will see section "F"
• Click on "ecological sites"
• Select MLRA 54 for western North Dakota or MLRA 53B for the Coteau Region of North Dakota to find a list of ecological sites.  Choose the one of interest to see the site description and tables.  Please note: Silty range sites are now known as "loamy" range sites and overflow range sites are now known as "loamy overflow" range sites.