Unit boundary processing for National Park Service units for use in the national park environmental settings monitoring protocol: Fall 2018
Kinseth M and Nelson L. 2020. Unit boundary processing for National Park Service units for use in the national park environmental settings monitoring protocol: Fall 2018. Natural Resource Data Series. NPS/NRSS/IMD/NRDS—2020/1253. National Park Service. Fort Collins, Colorado
This data report documents the acquisition, preparation and creation of adjusted National Park Service (NPS) unit boundaries for use within the Inventory and Monitoring Program (I&M). The datasets are based on the NPS administrative boundary data release from the NPS Land Resources Division (LRD) as of September 2018 and supersede all previous releases of adjusted boundaries for use within the I&M Program. The LRD boundaries are included, or in some cases are replaced, with I&M operational boundaries to create an integrated dataset of NPS boundaries that are used for a spectrum of I&M activities. This integrated dataset is the foundation for several activities undertaken by the Inventory & Monitoring Program, including the national Environmental Settings protocol (DeVivo et al. 2018) and the IMD Inventory 2.0 program (DeVivo 2019), as well as several efforts being conducted by networks and parks. Boundary datasets documented in this report are intended only for use within the Inventory and Monitoring Program and may not include all parks, units, or other areas of interest to the NPS.
- Type
- Published Report
- Authors
- Kinseth, Michelle; Nelson, Lisa
- Date of Issue
- 2020-01
- Publisher
- National Park Service
- Units
- IMD , NRSS
- Keywords
- environmental settings, environmental settings monitoring, unit boundary processing