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The National Park Service (NPS) is responsible for managing livestock grazing in 94 units, and several park grazing management planning efforts are currently underway. However, there is a recognized need to update grazing management practices to address potential future effects of management practices and climate change. The goal of this project is to outline the steps required for developing NPS grazing management plans, to identify information needs and availability for these planning processes, and to initiate a scenario-based pilot project for meeting these needs at a given park unit. This will serve as an important step toward developing a transferable process to help parks ensure that grazing management practices...
Categories: Project;
Types: Map Service,
OGC WFS Layer,
OGC WMS Layer,
OGC WMS Service;
Tags: 2019,
CASC,
Completed,
Data Visualization & Tools,
Grasslands and Plains, All tags...
Landscapes,
Mammals,
Mammals,
North Central,
North Central CASC,
Projects by Region,
Science Tools for Managers,
Wildlife and Plants,
Wildlife and Plants, Fewer tags
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These data (all data tables for the data release) represent a suite of biotic and abiotic variables that characterized plant communities and the geologic, geomorphic, edaphic, climatic, and land use history context in which distinct plant communities occur. In 2009, the National Park Service's Inventory and Monitoring program for the Northern Colorado Plateau Network (NCPN) began measuring vegetation cover and site characteristics at monitoring plots stratified across different vegetation types within national parks on the Colorado Plateau. NCPN biologists remeasured vegetation cover at these plots in a rotating panel over the following decade. In 2019, U. S. Geological Survey geologists and soil scientists collected/compiled...
Tags: Arches National Park,
Botany,
Canyonlands National Park,
Capitol Reef National Park,
Climatology, All tags...
Colorado Plateau,
Ecology,
Emery County,
Geography,
Grand County,
Information Sciences,
NMDS analysis,
San Juan County,
Sevier County,
Soil Sciences,
USGS Science Data Catalog (SDC),
Utah,
Wayne County,
air temperature,
aridity,
bare ground,
biological soil crusts,
biota,
climatologyMeteorologyAtmosphere,
data release,
dryland ecosystems,
ecosystem monitoring,
ecosystems,
field experiments,
field inventory and monitoring,
field measurements,
field observations,
functional group cover,
genus,
geomorphology,
grassland,
grassland ecosystems,
grazing,
ground cover,
hierarchical clustering analysis,
lichens,
line-point intercept measurements,
mosses,
multivariate statistical analysis,
national parks,
nonmetric multidimensional scaling analysis,
pedogenesis,
plants (organisms),
plot sampling,
precipitation (atmospheric),
precipitation measurement, rainfall measurement, snowfall measurement,
random forest model,
rocks,
rocks and deposits,
scientific names,
shrubland ecosystems,
slope,
soil formation,
soil physical properties,
soil sciences,
soils,
species,
species composition,
topographic wetness index,
vegetation,
vegetation cover,
woodland, Fewer tags
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