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Vegetation Classification and Mapping Project Report National Park Service U.S. Department of the Interior Natural Resource Stewardship and Science Vegetation Classification and Mapping at Marsh-Billings-Rockefeller National Historical Park, Vermont Natural Resource Technical Report NPS/NER/NRTR—2011/493 ON THE COVER Northern Hardwood Limestone Forest in Marsh-Billings-Rockefeller National Historical Park (MABI.AA10). Photograph by Sue Gawler, NatureServe. Vegetation Classification and Mapping at Marsh-Billings-Rockefeller National Historical Park, Vermont Natural Resource Technical Report NPS/NER/NRTR—2011/493 Susan C. Gawler NatureServe University of Massachusetts at Boston 100 Morrissey Blvd. Boston, MA 02125-3393 F. Brett Engstrom Ecological Consultant 836 Route 232 Marshfield, VT 05658 September 2011 U.S. Department of the Interior National Park Service Natural Resource Stewardship and Science Fort Collins, Colorado The National Park Service, Natural Resource Stewardship and Science office in Fort Collins, Colorado publishes a range of reports that address natural resource topics of interest and applicability to a broad audience in the National Park Service and others in natural resource management, including scientists, conservation and environmental constituencies, and the public. The Natural Resource Technical Report Series is used to disseminate results of scientific studies in the physical, biological, and social sciences for both the advancement of science and the achievement of the National Park Service mission. The series provides contributors with a forum for displaying comprehensive data that are often deleted from journals because of page limitations. All manuscripts in the series receive the appropriate level of peer review to ensure that the information is scientifically credible, technically accurate, appropriately written for the intended audience, and designed and published in a professional manner. This report received informal peer review by subject-matter experts who were not directly involved in the collection, analysis, or reporting of the data. Views, statements, findings, conclusions, recommendations, and data in this report do not necessarily reflect views and policies of the National Park Service, U.S. Department of the Interior. Mention of trade names or commercial products does not constitute endorsement or recommendation for use by the U.S. Government. This report is available from the Natural Resource Publications Management website (http://www.nature.nps.gov/publications/nrpm/). Please cite this publication as: Gawler, S. C., and F. B. Engstrom. 2011. Vegetation classification and mapping at Marsh-Billings-Rockefeller National Historical Park, Vermont. Natural Resource Technical Report NPS/NER/NRTR—2011/493. National Park Service, Fort Collins, Colorado. NPS 456/110592, September 2011 ii Contents Page Figures............................................................................................................................................. v Tables ............................................................................................................................................ vii Appendixes .................................................................................................................................... ix Abstract .......................................................................................................................................... xi Acknowledgements ...................................................................................................................... xiii Introduction ..................................................................................................................................... 1 USGS-NPS Vegetation Mapping Program ............................................................................... 1 U.S. National Vegetation Classification ................................................................................... 2 Project Area .............................................................................................................................. 3 Materials and Methods .................................................................................................................... 7 Planning and Scoping ............................................................................................................... 7 Review of Existing Information and Preliminary Vegetation Classification ........................... 7 Aerial Photography Acquisition and Processing ...................................................................... 7 Photointerpretation and Vegetation Map Preparation ............................................................... 8 Field Data Collection and Classification ................................................................................ 11 2005 Vegetation Map Preparation .......................................................................................... 15 Accuracy Assessment ............................................................................................................. 15 Final Vegetation Classification and Map Preparation ............................................................ 21 Results ........................................................................................................................................... 23 Vegetation Classification and Characterization after Plot Sampling ...................................... 23 2005 Vegetation Map Production ........................................................................................... 23 Accuracy Assessment ............................................................................................................. 26 Final Vegetation Map Production ........................................................................................... 31 iii Final Vegetation Association Descriptions ............................................................................. 34 Project Deliverables ................................................................................................................ 35 Discussion ..................................................................................................................................... 37 Vegetation Classification and Characterization ...................................................................... 37 Vegetation Map Production .................................................................................................... 40 Conclusions ................................................................................................................................... 43 Literature Cited ............................................................................................................................. 45 iv Figures Page Figure 1. Location of Marsh-Billings-Rockefeller National Historical Park, Windsor County, on the Woodstock North, VT 1:24,000 USGS topographic quad map. ................................................................................................................................................. 4 Figure 2. Location of Marsh-Billings-Rockefeller National Historical Park in the Northern Appalachian / Acadian ecoregion in Vermont. ............................................................... 5 Figure 3. Locations of the 30 vegetation plots used for vegetation classification and mapping in Marsh-Billings-Rockefeller National Historical Park. ........................................ 13 Figure 4. Locations of the 63 accuracy assessment sampling points in Marsh- Billings-Rockefeller National Historical Park. ............................................................................. 19 Figure 5. 2005 vegetation map classes and Anderson Level II categories of Marsh-Billings-Rockefeller National Historical Park. ................................................................. 25 Figure 6. Final 2007 vegetation map classes and Anderson Level II categories of Marsh-Billings-Rockefeller National Historical Park. ................................................................. 33 v Tables Page Table 1. Summary of key information for the orthorectified photomosaic for Marsh-Billings-Rockefeller National Historical Park. ................................................................... 9 Table 2. Pre-existing data layers used in Marsh-Billings-Rockefeller National Historical Park vegetation mapping. ............................................................................................. 10 Table 3. Preliminary vegetation classification and plot allocation to vegetation types known to occur in the park. ................................................................................................. 12 Table 4. Thematic accuracy assessment (AA) sampling strategy for Marsh- Billings-Rockefeller National Historical Park based on the 2005 vegetation map. ..................... 18 Table 5. Map classes and USNVC crosswalks for the 2005 vegetation map. ............................. 24 Table 6. Contingency table for accuracy assessment of the Marsh-Billings- Rockefeller National Historical Park 2005 vegetation map ......................................................... 27 Table 7. Contingency table for accuracy assessment of the Marsh-Billings- Rockefeller National Historical Park final 2007 vegetation map. ................................................ 28 Table 8. Revisions to the 2005 vegetation map class names and vegetation classification after 2007 accuracy assessment to create the final 2007 vegetation
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