Landscape Conservation Forecasting for the Indian Peak Range, Pine Valley, and Mountain Home Range Project
Report to the Utah Division of Wildlife Reosurces and Bureau of Land Management, Cedar City Field Office for Landscape Conservation Forecasting for the Indian Peak Range, Pine Valley, and Mountain Home Range Project in Utah. About 77,000 acres of newly mapped vegetation was added to the previously mapped 232,000 acre Pine Valley-Mountain Home project area in Provencher et al. (2019).
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Subject Tags
- Conservation Planning
- Ecosystem management
- Climate resilience
Description
This report describes Landscape Conservation Forecasting applied to the Indian Peak Range, Pine Valley, and Mountain Home Range Project in Utah for the Utah Division of Wildlife Resources and the Bureau of Land Management, Cedar City Field Office. The project objectives were to a) complete mapping of ecological systems and current vegetation in the Greater Indian Peak Mapping Area that encompasses the Indian Peaks Wildlife Management Area, BLM land, state school trust lands, and private inholdings; b) append the newly mapped vegetation to the Pine Valley-Mountain Home vegetaiton map; and c) forecast the effects of combined management and climate scenarios using state-and-transition vegetation computer simulations for the entire project area.
Citation
Provencher L, Byer S, Badik K, Tuhy J, York E. 2021. Landscape Conservation Forecasting for the Indian Peak Range, Pine Valley, and Mountain Home Range Project. Report to the Utah Division of Wildlife Resources and Bureau of Land Management, Cedar City Field Office. The Nature Conservancy.
TNC Authors
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Louis Provencher
Nevada Director of Science
The Nature Conservancy -
Sarah Byer
Nevada Spatial / GIS Analyst
The Nature Conservancy
Email: sarah.byer@tnc.org -
Kevin Badik
Nevada Rangeland Ecologist
The Nature Conservancy
Email: kevin.badik@tnc.org -
Elaine York
Utah West Desert Regional Director
The Nature Conservancy
Email: eyork@tnc.org