Scenic beauty (visual resource).

CFR · 2024-01-01 · US · Title 7

(a) (b) (1) Provide technical assistance with full consideration of alternative management and development systems that preserve scenic beauty or improve the visual resource; (2) Emphasize the application of conservation practices having scenic beauty or visual resource values particularly in waste management systems; field borders, field windbreaks, wetland management, access roads, critical area treatment; design and management of ponds, stream margins, odd areas, and farmsteads; siting or positioning of structures and buildings to be in harmony with the landscape while reducing the potential for erosion; using native and other adaptable plants for conservation which enhance (3) Promote personal pride in landowners in the installation, maintenance, and appearance of conservation practices and their properties; (4) Select suitable areas for waste products and use of screens to hide “eyesore” areas, and (5) Encourage conservation districts to include practices which promote scenic beauty in their annual and long-range programs. (c) (1) (i) Assign appropriate NRCS national office leadership to insure that enhancement of scenic beauty is included in national information, policy, guidelines, standards, guides to specifications for conservation practices without impairing basic soil and water conservation functions. (ii) Emphasize in plant material center management and in plant materials functions that locating and evaluating plants for forage, erosion control, and recreation or

official document · source cfr-2024 · id 7:§ 650.24