“…A separate approach to assessing region‐wide erosion, the Daily Erosion Project (DEP; Cruse et al., 2006; Gelder et al., 2018), uses the physically based Water Erosion Prediction Project (WEPP) model (Laflen & Flanagan, 2013), which integrates topography, precipitation, soil property, and crop data to provide daily estimates of the mass of soil eroded from hillslopes in Iowa, Nebraska, Minnesota, Wisconsin, and Kansas at the scale of ∼90 km 2 watersheds. However, RUSLE and WEPP do not incorporate tillage or gully erosion in their model predictions, which can be important drivers of soil transport (Govers et al., 1996; S. Li et al., 2008; Öttl et al., 2021; Papiernik et al., 2009; J. Poesen, 2018; J. W. Poesen et al., 1996; Thaler, Larsen, et al., 2021; Valentin et al., 2005; Van Oost et al., 2006). NRI estimates of soil loss have been generated every 5 years from 1982 to 2017 and temporal trends suggest that erosion rates have generally been decreasing since 1982 (U.S. Department of Agriculture, 2018).…”