Port Louisa National Wildlife Refuge: 2014 Land Cover Land Use Horseshoe Bend

This collection of conservation areas consists of the floodplain of the combined streams of the Iowa River and the Cedar River. The study area begins just southeast of Wapello, IA, and continues southeast until the Horseshoe Bend Division, Port Louisa NWR. The area is currently managed to maintain meadow or grassland habitat which requires intensive management due to vegetative succession. In addition, this floodplain area contains a high proportion of managed lands and private lands in the Wetland Reserve Program and is a high priority area for cooperative conservation actions. This project provides a late-summer baseline vegetation inventory to assess future management actions in an adaptive process. Changes in...

Categories: Data; Types: Citation, Downloadable, Map Service, OGC WFS Layer, OGC WMS Layer, Shapefile; Tags: Aerial Imagery, Cedar River, Color Infrared Imagery, Floodplain Mapping, Horseshoe Bend Division, All tags... Iowa, Iowa River, LCU, Land Cover, Louisa County, Mississippi River Floodplain, Port Louisa National Wildlife Refuge, US Fish and Wildlife Service Region 3, USGS Science Data Catalog (SDC), United States, Vegetation Mapping, Wetlands Mapping, floodplains, vegetation, Fewer tags