Vegetation Classification and Mapping Project Report, Golden Spike National Hist

Download or read book Vegetation Classification and Mapping Project Report, Golden Spike National Hist written by National Park Service and published by CreateSpace. This book was released on 2013-08-12 with total page 250 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "The Northern Colorado Plateau Inventory and Monitoring Network worked with the support of the U.S. Geological Survgey - National Park Service Vegetation Mapping Program to describe and map vegetation at Golden Spike National Historic Site (GOSP, or NHS). ... Analysis of the classification plot data revealed 18 National Vegetaition Classification (NVC) plant associations or park special vegetation types within GOSP. Several additional plant associations for which map units were developed were not sampled with classification plots, but were instead documented by extensive field notes and photographs" -- p. xiii.