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<span style="box-sizing: border-box;"><span style="margin: 0px; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, Helvetica, sans-serif;">New tool aids in land treatment planning<br>
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<span style="box-sizing: border-box;"><span style="margin: 0px; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, Helvetica, sans-serif;">John B Bradford and Caitlin M Andrews, USGS RAMPS, September 22, 2021</span></span></div>
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<span style="box-sizing: border-box;"><span style="margin: 0px; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Weather impacts the effectiveness of land treatments. This is especially true in drylands of the Western U.S. where plant survival
is heavily influenced by the combination of temperature and soil moisture. When planning land treatments such as seeding, outplanting, and using herbicide, knowing weather and soil moisture forecasts can improve efficacy of treatments and avoid drought-driven
restoration failures. The Drought Forecast Tool is a quick, easy-to-use application for supporting decision making around land treatment planning and adaptive management.</span></span></div>
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This research summary can be found in the latest USGS </span><span style="margin:0px;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri, Helvetica, sans-serif;background-color:rgb(255, 255, 255);display:inline !important">Restoration Assessment and Monitoring Program for the
Southwest (RAMPS)</span><span style="margin:0px;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri, Helvetica, sans-serif"> </span><a href="https://www.usgs.gov/center-news/ramps-newsletter-summer-2021-edition" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer" data-auth="NotApplicable" title="https://www.usgs.gov/center-news/ramps-newsletter-summer-2021-edition" data-linkindex="0" style="margin:0px;font-size:14.6667px;font-family:Calibri, Helvetica, sans-serif"><span style="margin:0px;font-size:11pt">newsletter</span></a><span style="margin:0px;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri, Helvetica, sans-serif">.
For more information about this and other dryland restoration research, visit the RAMPS website at</span><span style="margin:0px;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri, Helvetica, sans-serif"> </span><span style="margin:0px;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri, Helvetica, sans-serif"><a href="http://www.usgs.gov/sbsc/ramps" id="LPlnk115557">www.usgs.gov/sbsc/ramps</a></span></div>
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