Greater Yellowstone Area Landscape Dynamics
McIntyre C , Ellis C, Monahan B, Gross J, Theobald DM, Legg K, Daley R . Greater Yellowstone Area Landscape Dynamics. 1940. National Park Service https://doi.org/10.57830/2306929
According to the Greater Yellowstone Coordinating Committee‘s (GYCC) definition, the Greater Yellowstone Area (GYA) covers over 92,000 square kilometers (km2) in Wyoming, Montana and Idaho. Elevation within the GYA ranges from approximately 1200 m (~ 4000 ft) to 4210 m (~ 13,800 ft). Whereas private lands tend to occupy the lower elevations within the GYA, public lands, including national forests, national parks, national wildlife refuges, Bureau of Land Management land, and state lands, dominate the higher elevations within the GYA. The GYA boundary also overlaps several hundred square kilometers of tribal land. The Greater Yellowstone Area, as defined by the GYCC, serves as the primary area of analysis for most of the indicators studied in the report below. Because population and agriculture data are available by county, the 34 counties considered most influential in terms of regional land use characteristics provide a second area of analysis. Changes in land use outside public land boundaries can have major implications to structural and functional ecosystem properties. Consistent data on landscape dynamics (land use and land cover) is necessary for analysis and interpretation of landscape-level trends. The data herein was used to create to the report "Landscape Dynamics in the Greater Yellowstone Area" (citation below) and provides managers in the Greater Yellowstone Area with (1) data and methods for ongoing National Park Service (NPS) inventorying and monitoring of landscape dynamics, (2) an analysis of existing publicly available landscape dynamics data for areas within and surrounding the GYA, and (3) interpretation of the results in the context of natural resources. Report citation: McIntyre C and Ellis C. 2011. Landscape dynamics in the Greater Yellowstone Area. Natural Resource Technical Report. NPS/GRYN/NRTR—2011/506. National Park Service, Natural Resource Stewardship and Science. Fort Collins, Colorado.
- Type
- Project
- Authors
- McIntyre, Cheryl; Ellis, Cameron; Monahan, Bill; Gross, John; Theobald, David; Legg, Kristin; Daley, Rob
- Publisher
- National Park Service
- DOI
- 10.57830/2306929
- Units
- GRTE , GRYN , JODR , YELL
- Keywords
- boundary, census, habitat, habitat connectivity, housing, Idaho, impervious surfaces, land cover, land ownership, migration, Montana, roads, streets, Wyoming
Program
Products
- Landscape dynamics in the Greater Yellowstone Area
- Greater Yellowstone Area Landscape Dynamics, GeoPackage
- Greater Yellowstone Area Landscape Dynamics, Raster Data
- NPScape Standard Operating Procedure (SOP) - Housing
- NPScape Standard Operating Procedure (SOP) - Roads
- NPScape Standard Operating Procedure (SOP) - Population
- NPScape Standard Operating Procedure (SOP) - Land Cover
- NPScape Standard Operating Procedure (SOP) - Conservation Status