Vegetation Characterization Products Available for Gateway National Recreation Area, Mesa Verde National Park, New River Gorge

USGS-National Park Service (NPS) Vegetation Characterization Program (VCP) documentation for Gateway National Recreation Area, Mesa Verde National Park, New River Gorge National River, and Weir Farm National Historic Site has been completed and is available on the Vegetation Characterization Program Web site and the Weir Farm National Historic Site. Products include aerial photography - graphic of orthophoto mosaic, spatial orthophoto data, and flightline index; project report - photo interpretation key, vegetation descriptions, vegetation key, photos of map class, and accuracy assessment methods and results; field data - graphic of field plots, spatial field plots data, field database, physical descriptive for plots and species list for plots; geospatial vegetation information - graphics of vegetation communities, spatial vegetation data, spatial boundary data, and field photos; accuracy assessment information - graphic of accuracy assessment points, spatial accuracy assessment data, and contingency matrix; metadata, and a link to NPS information about Gateway National Recreation Area, Mesa Verde National Park, New River Gorge National River, and Weir Farm National Historic Site.

For more information, visit the National Park Service (NPS) Inventory & Monitoring - Vegetation Mapping Program website.

(Photo: Mesa Verde national Park photo. Mesa Verde National Park is comprised 21,648 ha (53,494 ac), and is part of the plateau country of southwestern Colorado, and is located between the towns of Cortez and Mancos.)