Reducing Woody Encroachment in Grasslands: A Pocket Guide for Planning & Design

The pocket guide for reducing woody encroachment is a field-based resource created to support training and extend principles from the original Vulnerability Guide (Reducing Woody Encroachment in Grasslands: A Guide for Understanding Risk and Vulnerability). The pocket guide is designed to fit in your pocket (5 x 7”) to use as a field reference for planning and design. The pocket guide features: 1.) Illustrations of how to better visualize vulnerability on the landscape, 2.) Improved planning, inventory, and decision-making in grasslands, 3.) Decision support to avoid common pitfalls - like short-lived treatments due to rapid reinvasion - that have caused past management efforts to underperform or fail, and 4.) Real-world testimonials from ranchers and other land managers on how they have reduced woody encroachment in unique ways that were flexible and customizable.