Reindeer Ranges Vegetation Map- NRCS
1985. Reindeer Ranges Vegetation Map- NRCS
In 1976, the Northwest Alaska Native Association (NANA) and the Reindeer Herders Association (RHA) asked the Alaska Soil & Water Conservation District and the United States Department of Agriculture, Soil Conservation Service (SCS) for assistance in developing and applying range management plans for reindeer. In response, the SCS designed and initiated a 15 million acre survey of 19 reindeer grazing permit areas on the Seward Peninsula, Alaska. Landsat data was initially used to classify and map ecological sites in the northeastern areas of the Seward and Baldwin Peninsulas. Starting in 1979, photo-interpretation of high altitude infrared color photography was used and continued to be used for classifying ecological sites during the 1981, 1982, and 1983 survey seasons. The area previously classified using Landsat was subsequently re-mapped using color infra-red aerial photography in 1983.
- Type
- Geospatial Dataset
- Date of Issue
- 1985-07-01
- Units
- BELA
- Keywords
- Alaska, And Earth Cover, Base Maps, BELA, Bering Land Bridge National Preserve, Ecosystems, Imagery, Kotzebue, Land Use / Cover, Nome, Range Sites, Resource Management, Seward Peninsula, Teller, Vegetation