This dataset was created in order to facilitate transboundary conservation work and research projects, by integrating land cover maps into a single dataset from Cape Caution, BC, to Yakutat Bay, AK. It includes three levels of land classification, site index, elevation, hydric soils (yes/no), karst (yes/no), primary and secondary species, size class, and volume class. It also includes a number of other important attributes from individual datasets, which were not crosswalked between the different areas.
Audubon Alaska, The Nature Conservancy, U.S. Forest Service, Province of British Columbia, GeoBase®, USGS, Glacier Bay National Park, Dave Leversee
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