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URI
AVS (Animal and Veterinary Science) 102 Lab Exercise:
We
will be conducting a site assessment of URI Peckham Farm
using our self-assessment worksheets 1 and 2.
Materials
for
download: .pdf format
Fact
sheet 4: Keeping Livestock and Horses on
Small Acreages: Assessing Your Risks to Water Resources
- describes how to fill out the self-assessment worksheets.
Self-assessment worksheet
1: Livestock Yards and Access: Assessing Your Risks
Self-assessment
worksheet 2: Manure Storage: Assessing Your
Risks
Map
of URI Peckham Farm layout -- areas to be assessed
and provides other important information.
Soils
and Topographic Map of URI Peckham Farm
Soils
Information (Map Unit Descriptions) for URI Peckham
Farm
Other
supplemental reading: these fact sheets cover the material
presented in the introductory slide show.
Fact
sheet 1: Keeping Livestock and Horses on Small
Acreages: Protecting Our Drinking Water, Families &
Animals.
Fact
sheet 2: Livestock Yards and Manure Storage Areas on Small
Acreages: Protecting
Our Drinking Water, Families & Animals.
Fact
sheet 3:
Pastures, Fencing, and Watering on Small Acreages: Protecting
Our Drinking Water, Families & Animals.
The
site assessment worksheets are designed for property owners
and managers and assumes that the participant is familiar
with the property. The above maps and soils information
are being provided to familiarize you with the site and
direct you to the specific areas to be assessed for this
exercise.
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