Your Guide to Inventorying Natural and Cultural Vegetation Communities
The National Vegetation Classification provides a common language for the effective management and conservation of plant communities and can help support a wide variety management applications. For example:
- Modeling and mapping wildlife habitat
- Enhancing natural resource conservation efforts – choosing the best for reserves and wildlife areas
- Fire management planning and modeling
- Studying patterns of vegetation change over time due to climate change and other causes
- Managing invasive species
- Land inventory and mapping programs (public and private)
- Setting national vegetation policies (e.g., biofuels, carbon markets, ecosystem services)
