Drought Early Warning and the Timing of Range Managers’ Drought Response

Figure 4

Time series showing the average condition depicted by anomalies in the ESI (black line) NLDAS TS (red line) and NLDAS TS (blue line) data sets at weekly intervals from six weeks prior to six weeks after the average beginning of drought response actions, including (a) purchasing more hay or feed than usual, (b) grazing fall/winter pastures earlier than usual, (c) destocking pastures more than usual, and (d) culling more breeding animals than usual.

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