Vegetation - Lassen Volcanic National Park [ds2959]

The Natural Resource Challenge provided funding for 12 baseline inventories to be completed in each of 270 parks with significant natural resources including vegetation mapping inventory.

The Vegetation Inventory is an effort by the NPS to classify, describe, and map vegetation communities that follows well-established procedures that are compatible with other agencies and organizations. The inventory uses the USNVC, a system that is integrated with the major scientific efforts in the taxonomic classification of vegetation, and is a FGDC standard. Maps are produced in Universal Transverse Mercator (UTM) coordinates (NAD 83) with a 1:24,000 scale and a minimum mapping unit of 0.5 hectares.