Grasslands Map

The Desert Landscape Conservation Cooperative Grasslands Map symbolizes grasslands from both the USGS National Land Cover Dataset and INEGI Uso de Suelo y vegetación datasets. The two datasets are displayed side by side at the US-Mexico border. The data are displayed at a regional scale (1:2,500,000).  The files provided are graphic design files that can be used to plot a publication-quality, poster-size map. 

Scale: 1:2,500,000  

Map poster dimensions: 34 x 44 inches  

Data sources: 
Land cover and Grassland Priority Conservation Areasare from the North American Environmental Atlas by the Commission for Environmental Cooperation, 2010. Hydrography, roads, populated places, and political boundaries are from the National Atlas of the United States, 2004. Natural Earth 1:10m Physical Labels (3.0.0) are derived from Patterson’s Physical Map of the World, 2008. Uso de suelo y vegetación are from INEGI, 2010.

File descriptions:  
DLCC_Grasslands.ai is an Adobe Illustrator file. 
DLCC_Grasslands.pdf is a Portable Document Format file. 
DLCC_Grasslands.jpg is a JPG image file.