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Baca National Wildlife Refuge and Great Sand Dunes Vegetation Mapping Project

Metadata Updated: December 12, 2023

This vegetation classification and mapping effort encompasses 167,148 ha(413,031 acres ) within the San Luis Valley, west of the Sangre de Cristo Mountains in south central Colorado. The mapping boundary is made up of several management units from a variety of government and private agencies (and a small amount of private property). These include the National Park Service (Great Sand Dunes National Park and Preserve – 60,354 ha, 149,137 acres), U.S. Fish & Wildlife Service (Baca National Wildlife Refuge – 37,483 ha, 92,623 acres), U.S. Forest Service, Bureau of Land Management (Blanca Wetlands), and the Nature Conservancy (Medano-Zapata Ranch – 13,243 ha, 32,725 acres). The mapped area includes portions of Saguache and Alamosa Counties. The actual mapping boundary reflects the U.S. Forest Service fire management plan area and is thus an effort by the NPS-USGS mapping program to encompass not only lands within the NPS but also those that are in proximity and that have some type of ecological or management cohesiveness. The final map product was produced in two parts. The USFWS Baca National Wildlife Refuge was produced by USFWS personnel and the remaining portion by NatureServe, Colorado Natural Heritage Program, USGS, Bureau of Reclamation, and National Park Service staff. Constant communication between these parallel efforts allowed for consistency in both accuracy and classification. Both FWS and NPS information is presented in this ServCat Record.

Access & Use Information

Public: This dataset is intended for public access and use. License: No license information was provided. If this work was prepared by an officer or employee of the United States government as part of that person's official duties it is considered a U.S. Government Work.

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References

https://ecos.fws.gov/ServCat/Reference/Profile/132476

Dates

Metadata Created Date June 1, 2023
Metadata Updated Date December 12, 2023

Metadata Source

Harvested from DOI EDI

Additional Metadata

Resource Type Dataset
Metadata Created Date June 1, 2023
Metadata Updated Date December 12, 2023
Publisher U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service
Maintainer
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Identifier FWS_ServCat_132476
Data First Published 2010-02-01T12:00:00Z
Data Last Modified 2010-02-01
Category geospatial
Public Access Level public
Bureau Code 010:18
Metadata Context https://project-open-data.cio.gov/v1.1/schema/catalog.jsonld
Metadata Catalog ID https://datainventory.doi.gov/data.json
Schema Version https://project-open-data.cio.gov/v1.1/schema
Catalog Describedby https://project-open-data.cio.gov/v1.1/schema/catalog.json
Data Quality True
Harvest Object Id 36e5fa54-18c0-4092-89d6-f32c879da351
Harvest Source Id 52bfcc16-6e15-478f-809a-b1bc76f1aeda
Harvest Source Title DOI EDI
Homepage URL https://ecos.fws.gov/ServCat/Reference/Profile/132476
Metadata Type geospatial
Old Spatial -105.907181,37.72127,-105.692856,37.9881
Program Code 010:028, 010:094
Publisher Hierarchy White House > U.S. Department of the Interior > U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service
Related Documents https://ecos.fws.gov/ServCat/Reference/Profile/132476
Source Datajson Identifier True
Source Hash 5560279fdd60ccbb63651cc93f715b94beb5626e161903ea12bf6f7eceaf1a79
Source Schema Version 1.1
Spatial {"type": "Polygon", "coordinates": -105.907181, 37.72127, -105.907181, 37.9881, -105.692856, 37.9881, -105.692856, 37.72127, -105.907181, 37.72127}
Temporal 2004-11-01T12:00:00Z/2007-06-01T12:00:00Z

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