Report Supplements and Field data for the Vegetation Mapping Inventory Project of Chiricahua National Monument
NPS Inventory and Monitoring Division. 2007-2025. Report Supplements and Field data for the Vegetation Mapping Inventory Project of Chiricahua National Monument. National Park Service
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. A vegetation mapping and characterization effort was conducted at Chiricahua National Monument (CHIR) over several separate phases from 2007 to 2022 by the Sonoran Desert Network (SODN) office. The vegetation mapping and characterization process began with the delineation of draft polygons from remote sensing imagery. Field crews then visited each polygon to collect qualitative vegetation cover data and further refine polygon boundaries. Concurrently, vegetation data were collected at both randomly and subjectively placed plots. The field effort for this project lasted from the fall of 2007 to the spring of 2010. In June of 2011, the Horseshoe Two megafire burned much of the monument, drastically altering the vegetation of the area and immediately rendering the recently completed map outdated. In discussions with park and program staff, it was decided that–in the absence of additional funding–the map would be paused for several years while ongoing postfire assessments and vegetation monitoring provided insights into the trajectory of vegetation recovery.
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- Assemblage
- Authors
- NPS Inventory and Monitoring Division
- Publisher
- National Park Service
- Units
- CHIR
- Keywords
- Accuracy Assessment, botanical survey, Classification, Geodatabase, Habitat Types, Imagery, National Vegetation Classification, NVC, NVCS, Plots, Releve, Relevé, Remote Sensing, USNVCS, Vegetation, Vegetation Inventory, Vegetation Map, Vegetation Mapping