Land cover and land use monitoring: 2016 results for Oregon Caves National Monument and Preserve

Ives J, Snyder A, Edson E, King J, Groshong L, Mohren S. 2017. Land cover and land use monitoring: 2016 results for Oregon Caves National Monument and Preserve. Natural Resource Data Series. NPS/KLMN/NRDS—2017/1108. National Park Service. Fort Collins, Colorado

This report summarizes landscape conditions in Oregon Caves National Monument and Preserve. Landscape spatial structure resulting from natural processes, and its variation through time, underlies the diversity and integrity of ecosystems. Composition (types and amounts of different land cover), configuration (spatial arrangement of land cover types), and connectivity determine habitat availability, the movements of organisms, and energy and material flow on a landscape. In 2016, the Klamath Network, in partnership with Southern Oregon University, completed and implemented our land cover and land use monitoring protocol (Mohren et al. 2016a). The goal of this monitoring effort is to support National Park Service (NPS) management of natural resources by providing relevant landscape-scale information about ecosystem composition and structure and land use to each of the NPS units in the Klamath Network. The Klamath Network protocol uses methods associated with the NPS NPScape project, which provides information on the status and trends of park natural resources at ecosystem-level and regional scales. We used Geographic Information System (GIS) tools to analyze largely regional- and national-level datasets at three spatial scales for the following landscape indicators: Conservation Status, Land Cover, Landscape Pattern, Housing and Population, Roads, and Disturbance. The three spatial scales are the Park boundary (Park), watersheds adjacent to the Park boundary (Park-Manager-Selected), and a 30 km buffer around the Park boundary (Regional). The number of years available for each dataset varies and is therefore not consistent across all landscape metrics. For some metrics, we present results for multiple years but do not analyze for or discuss change over time; trend analysis will be the subject of future reports.

Type
Published Report
Authors
Ives, Jace; Snyder, Allison; Edson, Elizabeth; King, Jacob; Groshong, Lorin; Mohren, Sean
Date of Issue
2017-06
Publisher
National Park Service
Units
KLMN , NRSS , ORCA
Keywords
conservation status, density, disturbance, housing, land cover, land cover and land use monitoring, Land use, landscape pattern, monitoring, morphology, population, roads
Subjects
Ecological Framework: Landscapes | Landscape Dynamics | Land Cover and Use

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