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Use Example: Stony Creek and Wolf Creek Watersheds
LimnoTech and partners used the ACPF when developing watershed management plans for the Stony Creek and Wolf Creek watersheds outside Detroit. This use example highlights how the ACPF was used and how it was helpful in watershed planning.
Mapping pollutant source to enhance water quality conservation in agricultural watersheds: Nonpoint no more?
This article in the Journal of Soil and Water Conservation argues that advances such as high resolution Light Detection and Ranging (LiDAR) topographic survey data, terrain analyses, remotely sensed crop cover data, modernized soil surveys, and computerized data access and analyses can be leveraged to map relative sources of agricultural nutrients and sediments at a scale that is meaningful in watershed- and farm-scale conservation efforts. More specifically, the Agricultural Conservation PlanningFramework (ACPF) (Tomer et al. 2013, 2015, 2017) provides three types of layered information for identifying and rankingcandidate locations for conservation treatment at the scale of practice implementation—the individual field. These tools can be used to to estimate the spatial distribution of fertilizer-N applications, by field and across watersheds
Connected Papers
Connected Papers provides a visual overview of an academic field or subject matter. Enter the seminal peer-reviewed paper on the ACPF- Combining precision conservation technologies into a flexible framework to facilitate agricultural watershed planning by Tomer et al - and explore the vast array of academic papers connected to or using the ACPF.
Watershed Applications of the ACPF Training Workshop Trainers Guide
The ACPF National Hub developed this document to help future trainers interested in hosting a Watershed Applications of the ACPF Training workshop or incorporating components of this training into other educational events.
Agricultural Conservation Planning Framework User Guide for Field Staff
The purpose of this user guide is to serve as a reference for conservation practitioners working with the Agricultural Conservation Planning Framework (ACPF) and ACPF results in a watershed context. This user guide is not written for ArcGIS users, but for field staff and watershed planners who work with GIS specialists and ACPF results to implement conservation plans and practices. The user guide reviews the results from each of the ACPF toolboxes to provide an understanding of how these results are created, what goes into producing them, and to encourage conservation practitioners to understand how they may be used to inform conservation planning, broadly speaking. The intention of this user guide is to familiarize conservation practitioners with information about what’s going on behind the scenes in the ACPF toolboxes so practitioners can work with a GIS specialist running the ACPF to get the best results possible for watersheds of interest.
Identifying Conservation Practice Opportunities
This presentation by NRCS staff Steven Hefner outlines how the ACPF helps identifies conservation practice opportunities on the landscape and how the tool can be used as a part of NRCS area-wide watershed assessments
ACPF Version 6 User Manual
ACPF Version 6 was released in the June 2024. Use this updated Users Manual as your reference when using Version 6 with ArcGIS Pro 3.0 and above.
ACPF Use Example: Polk County Saturated Buffer Project
Have you heard about the Batch and Build project in Polk County, Iowa? This innovative project used the ACPF and was able to get an impressive number of saturated buffers installed on the landscape in just a few short years.
Making Better Maps for Color Blind Producers
Roughly 1 in 20 people have some sort of color vision deficiency. Color blindness is a genetic condition that occurs more frequently in men (1 in 10) than women. It can occur when there is a problem with the color-sensing cones in the eye’s nerve cells. This factsheet has tips and examples for developing accessible maps for color blind producers.
Evaluating watershed-based optimized decision support framework for conservation practice placement in the Plum Creek Minnesota
This study develops an integrated decision support framework to site conservation placement opportunities at the field-scale using LiDAR-hydro-conditioned DEM and other secondary data. Using python coding, this framework integrates three robust models namely Prioritize, Target and Measure Application (PTMApp), Agricultural Conservation Planning Framework (ACPF) and Hydrological Simulation Program FORTRAN-Scenario Application Manager (HSPF-SAM).