Land Use Definitions

• Crop – Land used primarily for the production of field crops or orchard crops alone or in association with sod crops.
• Pasture – Lands composed of introduced or domesticated native forage species that are used primarily for the production of domestic livestock. They receive periodic renovation and/or cultural treatments, such as tillage, fertilization, mowing, and weed control. They are not in rotation with crops.
• Wet Waste - Practices that deal with the management or handling of liquid wastes of confined animals and the delivery of liquid animal waste products to any land use.
• Dry Waste - Practices that deal with the management or handling of solid or semi-solid wastes of confined animals and the delivery of solid or semi-solid animal waste products to any land use.
• Forest – Land on which the primary vegetation is forest (climax, natural or introduced plant community) and its use is primarily for production of wood products.
• Wildlife – Land or water used, protected, and managed primarily as habitat for wildlife.
• Urban – Land occupied by buildings and related facilities used for residences, industrial sites, institutional sites, public highways, airports, and similar uses associated with towns and cities.
• Irrigation – Practices dealing with supplemental water distribution and/or the rate, timing, or amounts of supplemental water applied to any land use.
• Wetland – A land inclusion that has a predominance of hydric soils; is inundated or saturated by surface or groundwater at a frequency and duration sufficient to support a prevalence of hydrophytic vegetation; and supports a prevalence of such vegetation under normal circumstances.
• Rangeland - Land on which the historic climax plant community is predominantly grasses, grass like plants, forbs, or shrubs. Includes lands revegetated naturally or artificially when routine management of that vegetation is accomplished mainly through manipulation of grazing. Rangelands include natural grasslands, savannas, shrub lands, most deserts, tundra, alpine communities, coastal marshes, and wet meadows

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