1. National Resources Inventory Jeff Goebel Resource Inventory Division USDA-NRCS, Beltsville, MD

2. Acronyms NRI = National Resources Inventory CEAP = Conservation Effects Assessment Project NASS = National Agricultural Statistics Service

3. National Resources Inventory Longitudinal statistical survey Sample-based, not census Measures natural resource status, conditions, trends

4. Non-Federal land 1.5 billion acres [600,000,000 ha] Annual data collection 200,000 sample points every year Subsample of 800,000 total NRI sites Results released every 5 years National Resources Inventory

5. NRI Sampling Units—Segment and 3 internal points Segment is a square tract of land; About 105 – 110 acres in Mid-Atlantic Typically half-mile by half-mile in Midwest

6. NRI-CEAP Cropland surveys Sample sites were fields associated with a subsample of NRI sample points [classified as “cultivated cropland”] Conducted 2003 – 2006 nationally USDA-NASS field staff conducted farmer interviews Data from farmer interviews plus regular NRI data = input into the “process models” used to generate estimates of sediment & chemical transport, etc. National Resources Inventory

7. NRI Conservation Tillage and Nutrient Management Survey –To become annual part of the NRI survey program –Quite similar to the data collection efforts for the original “NRI-CEAP Cropland Farmer Surveys” –Pilot Project -- to be conducted in the Chesapeake Bay Watershed this year

8. National Resources Inventory Pilot Project  Data to be collected starting late 2011 by USDA-NASS enumerators  Sample of 1,500 NRI sites selected by Center for Survey Statistics and Methodology (Iowa State University)  Will include the 735 sample fields that were part of 2003 – 2006 survey

9. National Resources Inventory Pilot Project  Survey instrument (questionnaire) will be similar to that used earlier Farming operations, etc. for 2009, 2010, and 2011 Some additions, deletions, modifications Must be approved by OMB  Concerns Locating operator or correct respondent “Respondent burden”

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