Relationships Among Agricultural Data Sources of Conservation Practice Implemented in the Chesapeake Bay Watershed

Through data sharing agreements with Federal and State agencies, the U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) collects time-series of environmental management practice data to inform studies that guide resource management decisions. These data include agricultural conservation practices, best management practices (BMPs), and pollution control strategies in the Chesapeake Bay watershed. This data release includes the relationships among the various management practice names that are used to harmonize the datasets from multiple state and federal agencies. This data release includes the relationship among the Chesapeake Bay Program's Chesapeake Assessment Scenario Tool (CAST) model BMP names and the practice names submitted by states to the National Environmental Exchange Network (NEIEN), the Pennsylvania Practice Keeper system, the Virginia Agriculture Cost Share (VACS) program, and the U.S. Department of Agriculture National Resource Conservation Service (NRCS) and Farm Service Agency (FSA) programs.

通过与联邦及州级机构签订的数据共享协议，美国地质调查局（U.S. Geological Survey, USGS）收集环境管理实践时序数据，为指导资源管理决策的相关研究提供支撑。此类数据涵盖切萨皮克湾流域内的农业保护实践、最佳管理实践（Best Management Practices, BMPs）以及污染控制策略。本次发布的数据包含用于协调多州及联邦机构数据集的各类管理实践名称间的对应关系。本次发布的数据还涵盖切萨皮克湾项目（Chesapeake Bay Program）旗下切萨皮克评估情景工具（Chesapeake Assessment Scenario Tool, CAST）模型的BMP名称，与各州提交至国家环境交换网络（National Environmental Exchange Network, NEIEN）、宾夕法尼亚实践管理系统（Pennsylvania Practice Keeper system）、弗吉尼亚农业成本分担（Virginia Agriculture Cost Share, VACS）项目，以及美国农业部下属自然资源保护服务局（National Resource Conservation Service, NRCS）与农场服务局（Farm Service Agency, FSA）项目所采用的实践名称之间的对应关系。