2209.21-2003-1_transmittal Page 1 of 2 FOREST SERVICE HANDBOOK INTERMOUNTAIN REGION (REGION 4) OGDEN, UT FSH 2209.21 – RANGELAND ECOSYSTEM ANALYSIS AND MONITORING HANDBOOK Amendment No.: 2209.21-2003-1 Effective Date: December 19, 2003 Duration: This amendment is effective until superseded or removed. Approved: JACK G. TROYER Regional Forester Date Approved: 12/05/2003 Posting Instructions: Amendments are numbered consecutively by Handbook number and calendar year. Post by document; remove entire document and replace with this amendment. Retain this transmittal as the first page(s) of this document. The last amendment to this Handbook was 2209.21-93-1 to 2209.21. New Document(s): 2209.21-2003-1_transmittal 2209.21_contents 2209.21_zero_code 2209.21_20 2209.21_30 2209.21_40 2 Pages 1 Page 6 pages 6 pages 4 pages 32 pages Superseded Document(s) by Issuance Number and Effective Date !2209.21 Transmittal (Amendment 2209.21-93-1, 5/18/1993) !2209.21, Contents (Amendment 2209.21-93-1, 5/18/1993) !2209.21, 0 Code Contents (Amendment 2209.21-93-1, 5/18/93) 2209.21, 0 Code (Amendment 2209.21-93-1, 5/18/93) !2209.21, 10 Contents (Amendment 2209.21-93-1, 5/18/93) 2209.21, 10 (Amendment 2209.21-93-1, 5/18/93) !2209.21, 20 Contents (Amendment 2209.21-93-1, 5/18/93) 2209.21, 21-24 (Amendment 2209.21-93-1, 5/18/93) 2209.21, 24.5,Ex.01 (Amendment 2209.21-93-1, 5/18/93) 2209.21, 25-27.4 (Amendment 2209.21-93-1, 5/18/93) 2209.21, 27.4,Ex.02 (Amendment 2209.21-93-1, 5/18/93) 2209.21, 27.5-29 (Amendment 2209.21-93-1, 5/18/93) !2209.21, 30 Contents (Amendment 2209.21-93-1, 5/18/93) 2209.21, 31 (Amendment 2209.21-93-1, 5/18/93) 2209.21, 32-34 (Amendment 2209.21-93-1, 5/18/93) !2209.21, 40 Contents (Amendment 2209.21-93-1, 5/18/93) 2 Pages 2 Pages 1 Page 9 Pages 1 Page 23 Pages 2 Pages 24 Page 1 Page 19 Pages 13 Pages 10 Pages 1 Page 17 Pages 20 Pages 3 Pages R4 AMENDMENT 2209.21-2003-1 EFFECTIVE DATE: 12/19/2003 DURATION: This amendment is effective until superseded or removed. 2209.21-2003-1_transmittal Page 2 of 2 FSH 2209.21 – RANGELAND ECOSYSTEM ANALYSIS AND MONITORING HANDBOOK 2209.21, 40-41 (Amendment 2209.21-93-1, 5/18/93) 2209.21, 42 (Amendment 2209.21-93-1, 5/18/93) 2209.21, 42.23d,Ex.01 (Amendment 2209.21-93-1, 5/18/93) 2209.21, 42.66,Ex.01 (Amendment 2209.21-93-1, 5/18/93) 2209.21,44-44.4 (Amendment 2209.21-93-1, 5/18/93) 2209.21, 44.5-47 (Amendment 2209.21-93-1, 5/18/93) 12 Pages 21 Pages 1 Page 1 Page 27 Pages 15 Pages Digest: Extensively revises, reorganizes, and recodes entire handbook. Changes title of Handbook to Rangeland Ecosystem Analysis and Monitoring Handbook (formerly, Range Analysis and Management Handbook). Converts the format and style of this Regional Handbook to the new FSH template using the agency’s current cooperate word processing software. 05 - Removes commonly understood and obsolete terms and adds new definitions of terms currently used in the rangeland analysis and monitoring process. 10 – Removes text in chapter 10 and reserves chapter code. Direction has been moved to FSM 2290, Region 4 supplement. 20 – Removes old site analysis methodology and includes remote sensing and GIS methods. 30 – Chapter 30 direction has been moved to FSM 2290. Adds annual monitoring for herbivore use methodologies which was previously discussed in chapter 40. 40 – Removes annual monitoring methodologies and places direction in chapter 30.