Rangeland Ecosystem Data, Grand Canyon - Parashant National Monument, AZ, USA

These data were compiled for an assessment of rangeland ecosystem conditions of the Grand Canyon - Parashant National Monument. The approximately one-million-acre Grand Canyon-Parashant National Monument (PARA) is located in the northwest corner of Arizona and co-managed by the Bureau of Land Management (BLM) and National Park Service (NPS). This report is focused on the ca. 200,000 acres of NPS administered lands—one of the largest NPS units where livestock grazing is a permitted land-use activity. Many ecosystems in PARA are characterized by a low degree of resilience to improper grazing due to low and variable precipitation. PARA is marked by an extremely high degree of environmental heterogeneity, including...

Tags: Arizona, BLM, Botany, Bureau of Land Management, Colorado Plateau, All tags... Ecology, Geography, Grand Canyon, Grand Canyon-Parashant National Monument, Information Sciences, Mojave, NPS, National Park Service, Parashant National Monument, Soil Sciences, USGS Science Data Catalog (SDC), biota, cattle, cattle grazing, ecological sites, ecological states, environmental heterogeneity, grazing, livestock, natural resource assessment, plant cover, plot sampling, rangeland ecosystem conditions, rangeland ecosystems, rangeland health, rangelands, soil aggregate stability, soil cover, soil geomorphic setting descriptions, soil resources, vital signs, Fewer tags

BLM AIM TerrADat TerrestrialAIM point

This feature class includes monitoring data collected nationally to understand the status, condition, and trend of resources on BLM lands. Data are collected in accordance with the BLM Assessment, Inventory, and Monitoring (AIM) Strategy. The AIM Strategy specifies a probabilistic sampling design, standard core indicators and methods, electronic data capture and management, and integration with remote sensing. Attributes include the BLM terrestrial core indicators: bare ground, vegetation composition, plant species of management concern, non-native invasive species, and percent canopy gaps (see Entity/Attribute Section for exact details on attributes). Data were collected and managed by BLM Field Offices, BLM Districts,...

Types: Downloadable; Tags: AIM, AIM_AK, AIM_AZ, AIM_CA, AIM_CO, All tags... AIM_ID, AIM_MTDA, AIM_NATL, AIM_NM, AIM_NV, AIM_ORWA, AIM_UT, AIM_WY, Assessment, BLM, Bureau of Land Management, Endangered, GRSG, Gap Intercept, Grass, Greater Sage Grouse, Hydrology, Inventory, Landscape Monitoring Framework, Line-point Intercept, Monitoring, Monitoring Methods, National Resources Inventory, Plant Census, Projects, Range, Rangeland, Remote Sensing, Sagebrush, Science, Shrub, Soil, Soil Aggregate Stability, Vegetation, Water Erosion, Wildlife, Wind Erosion, biota, dryland, environment, health, Fewer tags