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NPS | 2011
Grand Canyon National Park (GRCA) makes extensive use of remotely sensed imagery and other data for planning, visualizing, mapping, analyzing, and managing resources in nearly every park program.…
NPS | 2011
Grand Teton National Park is currently using historic color and color-infrared aerial photography, QuickBird satellite imagery, and lidar imagery for several wide-ranging and critical projects that…
NPS | 2011
Each year disturbance events such as avalanches, landslides, floods, fires, and clearcuts alter the landscape in and around the parks in the North Coast and Cascade Network (NCCN). These disturbances…
NPS | 2011
General Washington selected the Morristown, NJ area for overwintering the Continental Army because of its distinctive topographic setting and useful local resources. The camp was protected from…
NPS | 2011
The Midwest Archeological Center (MWAC) maintains archeological data sets for parks in the Midwest Region and assists parks with archeological issues. The Center’s Archeological Information…
BLM | 2011
The Pacific Northwest Hydrography Framework is sponsoring a working group tasked to evaluate the use of lidar-derived DEMs as a principal data source for updating the National Hydrology Database (NHD…
BLM | 2011
The Oregon BLM State Office developed a semi-automated technique to map juniper distribution for specific project areas. The technique uses 0.5 meter color infra-red NAIP imagery to identify…
BOR | 2011
Consumptive water use refers to water that is removed from a watershed by evapotranspiration (loss of water from direct evaporation or plant transpiration), making it unavailable for other uses.…
BLM | 2011
The famous Laetoli footprints were made by a human ancestor 3.56 million years ago in the Rift Valley of Tanzania and are the earliest fossil evidence of bipedalism in our ancestors. The trail…
BLM | 2011
The revised Statue 2477 (RS2477) was enacted by Congress in 1866 to facilitate western settlement. It granted “the right-of-way for the construction of highways across public lands not…
BOR | 2011
Reclamation is involved with a number of river restoration efforts throughout the Western United States, including the San Joaquin and Trinity in California, the Grande Rhonde in Oregon, the Lemhi…
BLM | 2011
BLM has issued a National sage grouse policy to ensure environmentally responsible exploration, authorization, leasing and development of energy resources within the range of the Gunnison sage-grouse…