Brandon T. Bestelmeyer,¹ Jeb C. Williamson,² Curtis J. Talbot,³ Greg W. Cates,⁴ Michael C. Duniway,⁵ Joel R. Brown<sup>6

1</sup>Authors are Research Leader, USDA-ARS Jornada Experimental Range, New Mexico State University, Las Cruces, NM 88003- 8003, USA (Bestelmeyer; ) bbestelm@nmsu.edu
²GIS Specialist, USDA-ARS Jornada Experimental Range, New Mexico State University, Las Cruces, NM 88003-8003, USA (Williamson)
³Range Management Specialist, USDA-NRCS Jornada Experimental Range, New Mexico State University, Las Cruces, NM 88003-8003, USA (Talbot)
⁴MLRA Project Leader, USDA-NRCS Las Cruces Soil Survey Office, Las Cruces, NM, 88005 (Cates)
⁵Research Ecologist and Soil Scientist, U.S. Geological Survey, Southwest Biological Science Center, Moab, UT, 84532 (Duniway)
⁶Rangeland Ecologist, USDA-NRCS Jornada Experimental Range, New Mexico State University, Las Cruces, NM 88003- 8003, USA (Brown).