Setting up a monitoring transect
Setting up a transect at monitoring sites is
straightforward in a grazing landscape:
1. Organise the equipment – two steel posts,
two plastic post caps and a post driver.
2. Drive one post into the ground and cap it.
3. Step out 25 paces in a straight line away
from the first post.
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4. At the end of this line, drive in the second
post and cap it.
5. This is the monitoring transect.
It is a good idea to GPS this site in case
something happens to the posts; and to use
brightly-coloured post caps easily seen from a
vehicle.
A photo monitoring point at the transect will help
to track changes in landscape health.