| Return to Wildlife-friendly Leasing home page |

Appendix Volume

Technical Support Materials & Reference Library

INDEX & BIBLIOGRAPHY

This document was prepared in Oct., 1997, by the Wildlife Advisory Committee of the Lincoln (Mass.) Conservation Commission and Land Conservation Trust to support its recommendations for conservation practices on land the town leases to farmers. This document is available for reference at the offices of the Lincoln Conservation Commission. It may also be of help as a bibliography, so a table of contents is included below:

(Tab 1.) LCC Documents

1. LCC Farmland Wildlife Policy, February 1994. [On web.]
2. LCC Pesticide Policy, January 1992. [On web.]
3. LCC Farmland Rental Policy, December 1991.
4. LCC Farmland Rental Protocol, December 1991.

(Tab 2 & 3.) U. S. and State Government Publications:

1. (Tab 2) Report of Dan Lenthall of US Natural Resource Conservation Service [NRCS], Sept.1997 to WAC with field-specific comments (final working document, with follow-up correspondence [included on web] on "mulch hay" and late-maturing, warm-weather grasses as a viable crop).
2. (Tab 3) Overview information on Conservation Practices and Wildlife:
• Going Wild With Soil and Water Conservation (US Soil Conservation Service [SCS] 1985).
• More Wildlife Through Soil and Water Conservation (extracts) (SCS Inf. Bulletin No. 175, 1958-1977))

(Tab 4.) Information on Conservation Tillage and Residue Management:

1. Conservation Tillage, in four sheets: "Residue Management to Control Soil Erosion by Water," Benefits of Conservation Tillage," "Drills," and "Equipment for Ridge Planting." (USDA Conservation Technology Information Center).
2. Residue Management: Practice Instructions (NRCS).
3. Grasses and Legumes for Critical Area Stabilization in Massachusetts (US NRCS Amherst)

(Tab 5.) Information on Buffer Strips:

1. Buffer Strips: Common Sense Conservation (NRCS).
2. Vegetative Filter Area: Practice Instructions (NRCS).
3. Filter Strips: Job Sheet (NRCS April 1997).
4. Field Borders: Conservation Practice Job Sheet (NRCS April 1997).
5. Grassed Waterway/Vegetated Filter System: Conservation Practice Job Sheet (NRCS April 1997).
6. Grassed Waterway: Practice Instructions. (NRCS).
7. [WAC subsequently became aware of "Riparian Forest Buffers: Function and Design for Protection and Enhancement of Water Resources," David J. Welsch, Forest Resources Management, USDA Forest Service, Radnor PA (NA-PR-07-91) c. 26 pp.]

(Tab 6) Information on Integrated Pest Management:

1. Integrated Pest Management–Massachusetts Guidelines / Commodity Specific Definitions for Apple, Cole Crops, Cranberry, Peppers, Potato, Pumpkin & Winter Squash, Strawberry, Sweet Corn, Tomato (ed. Craig S. Hollingsworth et al., Univ. of Mass.) [Extracts are included for Lincoln crops and full copy is in LCC office.]
2. List of Approved Nutrient and Pest Management Consultants (NRCS Oct. 1997).
3. Pest Management: Practice Instructions (NRCS).
4. Answers to the Most Frequently Asked Questions About Organic Farming (The Northeast Organic Farming Association of Vermont).

(Tab 7) Information on Soil Quality:

1. Soil Quality- Introduction (NRCS April 1996).
2. Indicators for Soil Quality Evaluation (NRCS April 1996).
3. Soil Quality Indicators: Organic Matter (NRCS April 1996).
4. Soil Quality Indicators: Soil Crusts (NRCS April 1996).

Other information:

• Conservation Crop Rotation: Practice Instructions (NRCS).
• Contour Farming (SCS Amherst #MA-109, Dec. 1983)
• Herbaceous Wind Barriers: Conservation Practice Job Sheet (NRCS April 1997).
• Brush Piles for Wildlife (SCS Amherst).

Non-governmental publications

(Tab 8.) Ells, Stephen F., "Bobolink protection and mortality on suburban conservation land," and "Breeding Henslow’s Sparrows in Lincoln, Massachusetts 1994," Bird Observer, 23:2 pp. 98-115, April 1995. [Both based on Lincoln’s fields and both on web here.]

[Also for Bobolink reference that reflects this Lincoln research: see, Donald and Lillian Stokes, Stokes Field Guide to the Birds (Eastern and Western) (Boston: 1996).]

(Tab 9.) Jones, Andrea L. and Peter D. Vickery, Conserving Grassland Birds: Managing Agricultural Lands Including Hayfields, Crop Fields, and Pastures for Grassland Birds (1997, Lincoln MA: Center for Biological Conservation, Mass. Audubon Society). [17 pages.] This excellent series is available for reference at the LCC office or may be obtained at MAS.

• See also, Jones, Andrea L. and Peter D. Vickery, Conserving Grassland Birds: Managing Small Grasslands Including Conservation Lands, Corporate Headquarters, Recreation Fields, and Small Landfills for Grassland Birds (1997, Lincoln MA: CCBC, Mass. Audubon Society). [16 pages], and
• Conserving Grassland Birds: Managing Large Grasslands Including Conservation Lands, Airports, and Landfills Over 75 Acres for Grassland Birds (1997, Lincoln MA: CBC, Mass. Audubon Society). [17 pages.]
• For Massachusetts Audubon Society's excellent web site on grassland bird conservation, click here.

(Tab 10.) Westover, Peter [extracts from] Managing Conservation Land: The Stewardship of Conservation Areas, Wildlife Sanctuaries, and Open Space in Massachusetts, including bibliography (1994 by the Mass. Society of Municipal Conservation Professionals, 224 pp.). For helpful extracts, click here. This excellent book is also available for review at the LCC office.

(Tab 11.) Other:

• Town of Carlisle MA Agricultural License.
• Aldo Leopold quote is from "The Outlook for Farm Wildlife," Trans. N. Am. Wildlife Conf. 10:165-168 (1945), reprinted in The River of the Mother of God, ed. S.L.Flader and J.B. Callicott (U.Wisc.P.: Madison WI) p.326 (1991).
• Les Line, "Vanishing Ecosystems: Twilight of America’s Grasslands," National Wildlife, April-May 1997.

| Return to Wildlife-friendly Leasing home page |