Field data for the Vegetation Mapping Inventory Project of Bighorn Canyon National Recreation Area

This reference is an assemblage of field data collected as part the baseline vegetation inventory for the park unit. Typical files here are vegetation plot data, accuracy assessment data, field photos, PDF showing locations of vegetation plots and accuracy assessment data, and other data for this type. This vegetation inventory and mapping project follows guidance provided by the NPS Vegetation Mapping Inventory Program. The overall process includes initial planning and scoping, field data collection, data analysis, imagery interpretation and classification, and accuracy assessment. The initial planning and scoping meetings took place in April, 2010 in Lovell, Wyoming and included BICA staff, Greater Yellowstone Inventory and Monitoring Network staff, Vegetation Inventory Program managers, Colorado State University ecologists, staff from other interested agencies and subject matter experts. Prior to field work, the preliminary classification of the vegetation associations included 96 USNVC associations known to occur in the project area or nearby. Existing vegetation and mapping data combined with field-collected vegetation plot data enables the final 2015 vegetation classification. Vegetation data collections at over 256 plot locations at BICA over the summer of 2011 by cooperator field crews supported the quantitative classification using hierarchical clustering and professional opinion. The final vegetation classification includes 73 vegetation types; 67 USNVC associations and six park special types. The classified types include 4 forest types, 18 woodland types, 25 shrubland types, 22 herbaceous types, and 4 sparse vegetation types.

Field data for the Vegetation Mapping Inventory Project of Bighorn Canyon National Recreation Area

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