When livestock gather in guts and ponds, they deposit manure there also. This waste, especially in guts, washes downhill onto beaches and into coastal waters when it rains, and can cause health risks for people bathing and swimming there. Fish caught in waters polluted with livestock waste can also be contaminated. Continued livestock traffic in guts can cause the gut channels to widen, which decreases productive pasture land. Plant Cover All pasture fields have good vegetation cover.
Most pasture fields have good or fair vegetation cover.
Pasture lands have poor vegetation cover. Pastures are weedy with low protein grasses and no legumes. Pasture soils are fairly deep with gradual slopes, medium-textured with some rocks or gravel. The soils have been tested for nutrients within the last 3 years. Most pastures have had a soil test within the last 5 years.