The information and guidelines in this handbook constitute basic Soil Conservation Service (SCS) policy and procedures for assisting ranchers, groups, organizations, units of government, and others in planning and applying resource conservation programs on rangeland and other native grazing land.

Provides a comprehensive review of government programs that generate environmental and environmentally-related statistics. Describes how the data are collected, what their temporal and geographic coverage is, what experts to contact for more information, and how to acquire the data and the reports that interpret them. Covers 7 governmet agencies: Agriculture, Commerce, Energy, HHS, Interior, Transportation and EPA. Comprehensive!