North Coast and Cascades Network Delivers a New Generation of Vegetation Maps
North Coast and Cascades Network. 2024. North Coast and Cascades Network Delivers a New Generation of Vegetation Maps. National Park Service. https://www.nps.gov/articles/000/new-nccn-vegetation-maps.htm
Web article: Starting in 2005, the North Coast and Cascades Network (NCCN) embarked on the very large task of classifying, describing, and mapping the vegetation communities in three large, mountainous national parks: Mount Rainier, North Cascades, and Olympic National Parks. These three parks encompass an area over 741,436 hectares (1,832,487 acres), and with elevations ranging from sea level (Olympic) up 14,410 feet (Mount Rainier), vegetation communities are quite varied. In partnership with the Institute for Natural Resources (based at Portland State University), we have now completed this project, just over 15 years in the making! The project is also part of the larger National Park Service Vegetation Mapping Inventory, which is an effort to map the vegetation in over 270 park units across the United States.
- Type
- Resource Brief
- Authors
- North Coast and Cascades Network
- Date of Issue
- 2024
- Publisher
- National Park Service
- Units
- MORA , NCCN , NOCA , OLYM
- Keywords
- nccn, plant communities, plants, vegetation, vegetation map, vegetation mapping