--- title: PastureMap Pro Tips - Excluding Areas from Grazing description: You might have a pond, stream, stand of trees or brush, or other area that you want to exclude from grazeable acreage in a pasture. This video shows you how to draw an excluded area from a pasture in PastureMap. image: https://blog.pasturemap.com/hubfs/pond.png --- [![PastureMap logo](https://blog.pasturemap.com/hs-fs/hubfs/Logo_With_Grey-1.png?width=400&height=93&name=Logo_With_Grey-1.png "PastureMap logo")](https://pasturemap.com) # [PastureMap Blog](https://blog.pasturemap.com) ## [PastureMap Pro Tips - Excluding Areas from Grazing](https://blog.pasturemap.com/pasturemap-pro-tips-excluding-areas-from-grazing) May 8, 2019 1:48:00 PM / by [Christine Su](https://blog.pasturemap.com/author/christine-su) - [Tweet](https://twitter.com/share) PastureMap Pro Tips! You might have a pond, stream, stand of trees or brush, or other area that you want to exclude from grazeable acreage in a pasture. A bunch of you have been asking how to draw those in PastureMap. Here's how to draw excluded areas in a pasture. This video also shows you how to make sure that area isn't included in your grazing calculations.  Getting the accurate grazeable acreage is important! It's the first step to grazing planning. It's also critical to having your ADA estimates. Here's a video of PastureMap customer Heidi Terrell explaining [the importance of mapping accurate acreage](https://pasturemap.com/mapping-pastures-grazing-plan/)for your grazing plan. Did you know we have a PastureMap Feature Previews Facebook Group for our customers? 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