Plants you wish to:

• Use to build the ground back. Also see Ground.
• Establish and figure out how best to grow. Also see Plant.
• Grow as habitat that draws species back. Also see Animal.
• Use to hold ground without a spray program. Also see Pest.
• Keep going through a dry stretch. Also see Water.
• Grow without inputs that complicate the story. Also see Product.
• Establish around the infrastructure on site. Also see Utilities.
• Grow on ground you know is clean. Also see Contamination.
• Use to hold a bank and protect what's downstream. Also see Risk.
• Match to the conditions the commitment has to survive. Also see Climate.

Plants that:

• Establish on one parcel and fail on the next. Also see Ground.
• Came in thin or never took. Also see Plant.
• The wildlife or the stock hit so hard they never get going. Also see Animal.
• Are getting choked out by something invasive. Also see Pest.
• Quit by August every year. Also see Water.
• Need more input every year to stay in. Also see Product.
• Die out along the roads, the pads, and the fence lines. Also see Utilities.
• Came in wrong on ground with a past. Also see Contamination.
• Are gone from the bank you're losing. Also see Risk.
• Can't take the season anymore. Also see Climate.

You want to know:

• What your cover is doing for the ground underneath it. Also see Ground.
• Which species actually perform on your ground. Also see Plant.
• Whether your plantings are drawing what you hoped they would. Also see Animal.
• How to hold ground without a program you have to explain. Also see Pest.
• How to keep cover through a dry year. Also see Water.
• Whether your plantings are getting what they need. Also see Product.
• What to plant around the infrastructure on site. Also see Utilities.
• Whether anything in the ground shows up in the vegetation. Also see Contamination.
• What would hold your worst ground. Also see Risk.
• How to plant for the conditions you're actually getting. Also see Climate.

Animals you wish to:

• Support on ground that's actually recovering. Also see Ground.
• Draw back with what you plant. Also see Plant.
• Have more of, and healthier, on land you steward. Also see Animal.
• Keep clear of parasites without a chemical program. Also see Pest.
• Water without beating down every pond and seep. Also see Water.
• Support without inputs that complicate the story. Also see Product.
• Keep clear of the roads, the traffic, and the operations. Also see Utilities.
• Keep off ground you're not sure about. Also see Contamination.
• Protect where a species designation is in play. Also see Risk.
• Support through heat and cold both. Also see Climate.

• Ground beat down and bare where they concentrate. Also see Ground.
• Animals that lose condition on cover that looks fine. Also see Plant.
• Species numbers down from what they were. Also see Animal.
• Parasites or disease showing up in what's on your ground. Also see Pest.
• Animals that quit a water source they used to use. Also see Water.
• A supplement or feed program that isn't doing anything. Also see Product.
• Wildlife pushed off by roads, traffic, or operations. Also see Utilities.
• Health issues that follow certain ground. Also see Contamination.
• A protected species that changes what you can do. Also see Risk.
• Animals that can't hold condition through the heat. Also see Climate.

You want to know:

• Whether what's on your ground is building it or beating it down. Also see Ground.
• Whether your habitat feeds what it looks like it does. Also see Plant.
• What's actually living on the land you report on. Also see Animal.
• What's behind the disease or parasite pressure. Also see Pest.
• What your water is doing to what drinks from it. Also see Water.
• Whether what you're providing matches what they need. Also see Product.
• Whether your operations are pushing species off. Also see Utilities.
• Whether anything in the ground is reaching your animals. Also see Contamination.
• Whether a species designation changes how you operate. Also see Risk.
• What a changing season costs you in habitat. Also see Climate.

Pressure you wish to:

• Starve out by fixing the ground it favors. Also see Ground.
• Keep off the cover you committed to. Also see Plant.
• Keep out of the species you're protecting. Also see Animal.
• Break the cycle on for good. Also see Pest.
• Control without putting anything in your water. Also see Water.
• Handle without a program you have to explain. Also see Product.
• Keep out of the buildings and the operations. Also see Utilities.
• Manage without adding more chemical to the ground. Also see Contamination.
• Stop before it spreads past your boundary. Also see Risk.
• Get ahead of as the seasons stretch. Also see Climate.

• The same pressure in the same ground every year. Also see Ground.
• Something taking your cover faster than it establishes. Also see Plant.
• Disease or parasites in the species on your ground. Also see Animal.
• Weeds that don't die at label rate anymore. Also see Pest.
• A pond or a waterway that turns green and stays green. Also see Water.
• A spray program you're locked into and don't want to be. Also see Product.
• Rodents in the buildings and the storage. Also see Utilities.
• Pressure that got worse the more you sprayed. Also see Contamination.
• An invasive spreading past your boundary. Also see Risk.
• Pests showing up earlier and staying later. Also see Climate.

You want to know:

• Whether your invasive problem is really a soil problem. Also see Ground.
• Why the pressure hits one parcel and not the next. Also see Plant.
• What's actually affecting the species on your ground. Also see Animal.
• What's driving resistance on your holdings. Also see Pest.
• What's turning your water green. Also see Water.
• How much of your control spending is preventable. Also see Product.
• What's drawing pests into your buildings. Also see Utilities.
• What all that spraying has left in your ground. Also see Contamination.
• What's coming next based on what's here now. Also see Risk.
• How a longer season changes what you're fighting. Also see Climate.

Water you wish to:

• Get into the ground and hold it there. Also see Ground.
• Keep your cover going through the dry stretch. Also see Plant.
• Keep clean for what drinks from it. Also see Animal.
• Keep from breeding what you'd rather not have. Also see Pest.
• Understand across the whole holding. Also see Water.
• Improve before it carries your inputs. Also see Product.
• Pump, pipe, or discharge without a bill or a question. Also see Utilities.
• Know is clean for everything downstream of it. Also see Contamination.
• Keep from taking your ground with it. Also see Risk.
• Have enough of in a dry year. Also see Climate.

• Water that runs off before it soaks in. Also see Ground.
• Cover that dries out while the water sits elsewhere. Also see Plant.
• Animals that won't drink from a source. Also see Animal.
• Water breeding mosquitos and everything else. Also see Pest.
• Water with a smell, a color, or a scum that's changed. Also see Water.
• Water that leaves crust and scale on everything. Also see Product.
• Discharge or pumping costs climbing with nothing to show. Also see Utilities.
• Water that changed after something upstream changed. Also see Contamination.
• A stream taking your ground a foot at a time. Also see Risk.
• Water that isn't there when you need it. Also see Climate.

You want to know:

• Whether your water is helping or hurting your soil. Also see Ground.
• Why the wet ground performs worse than the dry. Also see Plant.
• What your water is doing to what drinks from it. Also see Animal.
• What's turning your water green every year. Also see Pest.
• What's actually in your water. Also see Water.
• What your water does to the products you apply. Also see Product.
• What your water is costing you to move. Also see Utilities.
• Whether anything upstream is reaching your ground. Also see Contamination.
• What's leaving your property in the water. Also see Risk.
• How far your water would go in a drought. Also see Climate.

Products you wish to:

• Stop buying because the ground can supply it. Also see Ground.
• Time to the cover instead of the label. Also see Plant.
• Match to what the animals on your ground need. Also see Animal.
• Swap for something that doesn't build resistance. Also see Pest.
• Keep out of your water and out of your discharge. Also see Water.
• Prove out before you commit the holding to it. Also see Product.
• Store and handle right on site. Also see Utilities.
• Replace with something cleaner. Also see Contamination.
• Use without drift or runoff past your line. Also see Risk.
• Have work in a dry year as well as a wet one. Also see Climate.

• Amendment that never moved anything. Also see Ground.
• Fertilizer that doesn't show up in the plant. Also see Plant.
• A program the animals won't touch. Also see Animal.
• Herbicide that doesn't kill at label rate anymore. Also see Pest.
• Product showing up in your water. Also see Water.
• A contractor program you inherited and can't explain. Also see Product.
• Chemical stored where you'd rather it wasn't. Also see Utilities.
• Residue in the ground from years of the same thing. Also see Contamination.
• Spray drifting where it shouldn't go. Also see Risk.
• Product that works in a normal year and fails in a dry one. Also see Climate.

You want to know:

• What your inputs are actually doing to the soil. Also see Ground.
• How much of what you apply the cover ever sees. Also see Plant.
• Whether what you're providing matches what they need. Also see Animal.
• Whether you're solving the pressure or feeding it. Also see Pest.
• Where your products end up when it rains. Also see Water.
• What your program costs you per acre. Also see Product.
• What you're storing and handling on site. Also see Utilities.
• What's built up after years of the same program. Also see Contamination.
• What a stakeholder or a regulator would say about your inputs. Also see Risk.
• How your program should change with the season you're getting. Also see Climate.

Something you wish to:

• Site or build knowing what's underneath it. Also see Ground.
• Plant around so it works with the site. Also see Plant.
• Lay out so it doesn't push wildlife off. Also see Animal.
• Keep rodents and pests out of. Also see Pest.
• Get water to and away from without a question. Also see Water.
• Store your chemical and your materials in right. Also see Product.
• Run cheaper and cleaner. Also see Utilities.
• Know is healthy for the people working in it. Also see Contamination.
• Keep out of the water's way. Also see Risk.
• Keep workable in July and January both. Also see Climate.

• A building or a pad on ground that won't hold. Also see Ground.
• Runoff off the roof or the pad killing what's below it. Also see Plant.
• Roads and operations that pushed the wildlife out. Also see Animal.
• Rodents in the buildings and the storage. Also see Pest.
• A water bill with no leak you can find. Also see Water.
• Chemical stored where you'd rather it wasn't. Also see Product.
• An energy bill that doesn't match what you're running. Also see Utilities.
• Somebody who feels rough every time they're in a certain building. Also see Contamination.
• A facility that takes water every few years. Also see Risk.
• Cooling that runs constantly and never catches up. Also see Climate.

You want to know:

• What's under the pad before you build on it. Also see Ground.
• What to plant around your buildings to make them cheaper to run. Also see Plant.
• Whether your operations are pushing species off. Also see Animal.
• What's drawing pests into your buildings. Also see Pest.
• Where your water is actually going. Also see Water.
• What you're storing and where. Also see Product.
• Where your energy is actually going. Also see Utilities.
• Whether the air in your buildings is doing your people any favors. Also see Contamination.
• Whether your facilities sit where they should. Also see Risk.
• What it'd cost to make a building comfortable year round. Also see Climate.

Something you wish to:

• Know is clean before you put your name on it. Also see Ground.
• Know is clean before you plant into it. Also see Plant.
• Know is safe for the species on your ground. Also see Animal.
• Fix without adding more chemical to the ground. Also see Pest.
• Prove clean before it moves downstream. Also see Water.
• Replace with a cleaner product. Also see Product.
• Know is healthy for the people working in it. Also see Utilities.
• Document before anybody asks. Also see Contamination.
• Know about before a regulator or a stakeholder finds it. Also see Risk.
• Recover as the weather works on it. Also see Climate.

• Ground nothing will grow on and no reason you can find. Also see Ground.
• Cover that came in wrong on ground with a past. Also see Plant.
• Health issues in wildlife or stock that follow certain ground. Also see Animal.
• Ground that got worse the more you treated it. Also see Pest.
• Water that changed after something upstream changed. Also see Water.
• Residue from a program somebody ran before you. Also see Product.
• An old fuel or chemical area near the facilities. Also see Utilities.
• A holding with a history nobody wrote down. Also see Contamination.
• Runoff or drift coming onto your ground. Also see Risk.
• Buried debris that works its way up every wet year. Also see Climate.

You want to know:

• What this ground was used for before you had it. Also see Ground.
• Whether anything in the ground shows up in the vegetation. Also see Plant.
• Whether anything in the ground reaches the species on it. Also see Animal.
• What all that spraying left behind. Also see Pest.
• What's in the runoff coming onto your ground. Also see Water.
• What years of the same program built up. Also see Product.
• Whether the old site near the facility matters. Also see Utilities.
• Whether your ground would hold up to scrutiny. Also see Contamination.
• What a regulator or a stakeholder would find. Also see Risk.
• What a wet year turns up that a dry one doesn't. Also see Climate.

• Stop losing to erosion before it costs you. Also see Ground.
• Plant to hold the ground you're accountable for. Also see Plant.
• Manage so use doesn't cost you where it hurts. Also see Animal.
• Stop at your boundary before it spreads. Also see Pest.
• Get out of the water's reach. Also see Water.
• Use without drift or runoff liability. Also see Product.
• Site out of harm's way. Also see Utilities.
• Clear before you take it on. Also see Contamination.
• Know about before a regulator or a stakeholder does. Also see Risk.
• Build to hold up to whatever the year does. Also see Climate.

• Ground eroding out from under a commitment. Also see Ground.
• Cover gone from ground you're accountable for. Also see Plant.
• A protected species that changes what you can do. Also see Animal.
• An invasive spreading past your boundary. Also see Pest.
• Ground that floods out the same acres every few years. Also see Water.
• Spray that drifted where it shouldn't have. Also see Product.
• A facility or a well in the wrong spot. Also see Utilities.
• A facility upstream you've wondered about. Also see Contamination.
• A regulation, an easement, or a designation you found out about late. Also see Risk.
• Weather events that hit harder than they used to. Also see Climate.

You want to know:

• How much ground you lose a year and where it goes. Also see Ground.
• What would hold your worst ground. Also see Plant.
• Whether a species designation changes how you operate. Also see Animal.
• What's moving onto your ground from off it. Also see Pest.
• Whether your low ground is a liability or an asset. Also see Water.
• What your program looks like to a regulator. Also see Product.
• Whether your facilities sit where they should. Also see Utilities.
• What's actually upstream or downstream of you. Also see Contamination.
• Whether your ground is regulated or encumbered in ways you don't know. Also see Risk.
• What a hundred-year rain does to your holding now. Also see Climate.

Something you wish to:

• Hold water through a dry August. Also see Ground.
• Plant to match the conditions you actually have. Also see Plant.
• Support the species on your ground through the heat. Also see Animal.
• Stay ahead of as the pest seasons stretch. Also see Pest.
• Have enough water when it stops raining. Also see Water.
• Have work in a dry year as well as a wet one. Also see Product.
• Keep workable in July and January both. Also see Utilities.
• Recover as the weather works on it. Also see Contamination.
• Build to hold up to whatever the year does. Also see Risk.
• Stop hinging on the weather cooperating. Also see Climate.

• Ground that bakes hard and won't take water. Also see Ground.
• Cover that shuts down in the heat every year now. Also see Plant.
• Species that can't hold on through the summer. Also see Animal.
• Pests showing up earlier and staying later. Also see Pest.
• Rain that comes all at once or not at all. Also see Water.
• Product that works in a normal year and fails in a dry one. Also see Product.
• Cooling that runs constantly and never catches up. Also see Utilities.
• Winters that don't kill what they used to. Also see Contamination.
• Weather that hits harder than it used to. Also see Risk.
• A season that's moved on you. Also see Climate.

You want to know:

• Why your ground dries out faster than the reference site. Also see Ground.
• How to plant for the season you actually get. Also see Plant.
• What a changing season costs you in habitat. Also see Animal.
• How a longer season changes what you're fighting. Also see Pest.
• Whether your soil could hold you through a drought. Also see Water.
• How your program should change with the weather you're getting. Also see Product.
• What it'd cost to make a building comfortable year round. Also see Utilities.
• What a wet year turns up that a dry one doesn't. Also see Contamination.
• What a bad year is really costing you. Also see Risk.
• How much of a bad year is weather and how much is soil. Also see Climate.