Current land useSection: Previous - Ag & Environment Scorecard or Homesite Scorecard
The way in which people use the land around a soil evaluation site is marked on the score card, but no points are assigned to this question. The information is used to decide if wet soils should be preserved as wetlands or drained for farming.
Forms of land use
| Naturally vegetated land | Land that supports vegetation, such as forests, prairies, or marshes. Also abandoned fields with invading trees. |
| Agricultural or developed land | Croplands, pasture lands, field borders, conservation reserve lands, non-agricultural developed lands, etc. |