Access Control

Practice Code: 472
Reporting Unit: Acre (Ac.)

Access control is the temporary or permanent exclusion of animals, people, vehicles, and/or equipment from an area.

Purposes and Benefits

• Prevents, restricts, or controls access to an area

• Protects, maintains, or establishes wildlife habitat

• Protects water quality by controlling access to water bodies by livestock, people, and machinery

• Reduces soil erosion by controlling access to areas susceptible to erosion during various times of the year

Ground Disturbing Potential of Conservation Practices

This is a potential ground disturbing conservation practice. Any project with ground disturbing or potential ground disturbing practices planned may need to be submitted for review by the State Historic Preservation Officer and Tribal Historic Preservation Officers. Please see the Cultural Resources Review Process Flowchart for an outline of this process. View a list of conservation practices used in New York State, and their ground disturbing potential.   

Conservation Practice Support Documents

Support Documents for this conservation practice are available for download from an abbreviated version of Section IV of the NRCS Field Office Technical Guide (FOTG).

All support documents associated with this and other conservation practices are available at the NRCS Field Office Technical Guide Web site.

 

Related Conservation Practices

This practice is commonly used in a Conservation Management System with practices such as:

Access Road (560)
Fence (382)
Nutrient Management (590)
Waste Recycling (633)
Waste Storage Facility (313)

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