Bureau of Reclamation - Remote Sensing and Geographic Information Group 200021511 point digital data http://www1.usgs.gov/vip/knri/knriplot.zip doi:10.5066/F76H4FDX These points represent vegetation association types collected within KNRI boundaries in August 2002. Items include Formation Class through Association. The purpose of this data set is to quantify the vegetation polygon coverage in addition to providing additional information regarding the characteristics of each association at KNRI Unknown ground condition Complete None planned Knife River Indian Villages National Historic Site and environs -101.398206 -101.370140 47.385768 47.319627 None Vegetation Association None Standardized National Vegetation Classification System vegetation classification alliance community association Kingdom Plantae None None David Salas U.S. Bureau of Reclamation Project Manager Mailing Address

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Denver Colorado 80225 USA 303-445-3619 desalas@do.usbr.gov Microsoft Windows NT Version 4.0 (Build 1381) Service Pack 6; ESRI ArcCatalog 8.2.0.700 N/A N/A All points have been labeled with NVCS Formation through Association labels. + / - 6 meters N/A Geographical coordinates were collected using PLGR GPS. Data from NatureServe. 200210 U.S. Bureau of Reclamation David Salas Project Manager Mailing Address

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Denver Colorado 80225 USA 303-445-3619 desalas@do.usbr.gov Point Entity point 30 Universal Transverse Mercator 14 0.999600 -99.000000 0.000000 500000.000000 0.000000 coordinate pair 0.000005 0.000005 meters North American Datum of 1983 Geodetic Reference System 80 6378137.000000 298.257222 knri_field_veg Shapefile attribute table. Vegetation within project park boundary. U.S. Bureau of Reclamation FID Internal feature number. ESRI Sequential unique whole numbers that are automatically generated. Shape Feature geometry. ESRI Coordinates defining the features. ID Internal feature number. BOR Sequential unique whole numbers that are automatically generated. VEG_CODE Vegetation code of plots. BOR Vegetation code acronym names. FM_CLASS The physiognomic class is based on the structure of the vegetation as defined by the type, height, and relative percentage of cover of the dominant, uppermost life-forms. There are seven mutually exclusive classes: NatureServe 2002 Forest Trees with their crowns overlapping (generally forming 60% - 100% cover). NatureServe 2002 Woodland Open stands of trees with crowns not usually touching (generally forming 25% - 60% cover). NatureServe 2002 Dwarf-Shrubland Low-growing shrubs, usually less than 0.5 meter tall. NatureServe 2002 Nonvascular cover (bryophytes, non-crustose lichens, and algae) dominant (generally forming at least 25% cover). NatureServe 2002 Shrubland Shrubs generally greater than 0.5 meter tall with individuals or clumps overlapping to not touching (generally forming greater than 25% cover, with tree NatureServe 2002 Herbaceous Herbaceous plants dominant (generally forming at least 25% cover, with trees, shrubs, and dwarf-shrubs generally with less than 25% cover). Nonvascular: Nonvascular cover (bryophytes, non-crustose lichens, and algae) dominant (generally forming at least 25% cover). NatureServe 2002 Sparse Vegetation Abiotic substrate features dominant. Vegetation is scattered to nearly absent and generally restricted to areas of concentrated resources (total vegetation cover is typically less than 25%). NatureServe 2002 FM_SUBCLAS The physiognomic subclass is determined by the predominant leaf phenology of the forest, woodland, shrubland and dwarf-shrubland classes. Subclass is determined by the persistence (perennial or annual) and growth form (graminoid, forb, hydromorphic) of the vegetation for the herbaceous vegetation class. The relative dominance of lichens, mosses, or algae is the determining factor in the nonvascular class, and particle size of the substrate is the determining factor for the sparse vegetation class Examples include: Evergreen Forest, Deciduous Forest, Deciduous Shrubland, Perennial Graminoid Vegetation, Annual Graminoid or Forb Vegetation, Lichen Vegetation, and Consolidated Rock Sparse Vegetation. NatureServe 2002 Formation subclass names. FM_GROUP The group generally represents vegetation units defined based on leaf characters, such as broad-leaf, needle-leaf, microphyllous, and xeromorphic. These units are identified and named with broadly defined macroclimatic types to provide a structural-geographic orientation, but the ecological climate terms do not define the groups per se. Examples include: Temperate or subpolar needle-leaved evergreen forest, Cold-deciduous forest, Cold-deciduous shrubland, Temperate or subpolar grassland, Sparsely vegetated cliffs. NatureServe 2002 Formation group names. FM_SUBGROU The subgroup (or formation subgroup) represents a distinction between planted/cultivated vegetation and natural/semi-natural vegetation. The latter is broadly defined to include all vegetation not actively planted or maintained through intensive management activities by humans. Examples of subgroups include: Natural temperate and subpolar needle-leaved evergreen forest; Cultural temperate and subpolar needle-leaved evergreen forest (e.g., pine and spruce plantations). NatureServe 2002 Formation subgroup names. FORMATION The formation represents a grouping of community types that share a definite physiognomy or structure and broadly defined environmental factors, such as elevation and hydrologic regime. Structural factors such as crown shape and lifeform of the dominant lower stratum are used in addition to the physiognomic characters already specified at the higher levels. The hydrologic regime modifiers were adapted from Cowardin et al. (1979). Examples include: Rounded-crowned temperate or subpolar needle-leaved evergreen forest, Seasonally flooded cold-deciduous forest, Semipermanently flooded cold-deciduous shrubland, Tall sod temperate grassland, Cliffs with sparse vascular vegetation. NatureServe 2002 Formation names. ALLIANCE The alliance is a physiognomically uniform group of plant associations (see association below) sharing one or more dominant or diagnostic species, which as a rule are found in the uppermost strata of the vegetation (see Mueller-Dombois and Ellenberg 1974). Dominant species are often emphasized in the absence of detailed floristic information (such as quantitative plot data), whereas diagnostic species (including characteristic species, dominant differential, and other species groupings based on constancy) are used where detailed floristic data are available (Moravec 1993). For forested communities, the alliance is roughly equivalent to the "cover type" of the Society of American Foresters (Eyre 1980), developed for use primarily by foresters to describe the forest types of North America. The alliance may be finer in detail than a cover type when the dominant tree species extend over large geographic areas and varied environmental conditions (e.g. the Pinus ponderosa Forest Alliance, Pinus ponderosa Woodland Alliance, and Pinus ponderosa Temporarily Flooded Woodland Alliance are all within the Pinus ponderosa Cover Type of the SAF). Alliances, of course, have also been developed for non-forested vegetation. The alliance is similar in concept to the "series," as developed for the Habitat Type System to group habitat types that share the same dominant species under "climax" conditions (Daubenmire 1952, Pfister and Arno 1980). Alliances, however, are described by the dominant or diagnostic species for all existing vegetation types, whereas series are generally restricted to potential "climax" types and are described by the primary dominant species. NatureServe 2002 Alliance names. ASSOCIATIO The association is the lowest level, as well as the basic unit for vegetation classification, in the ICEC. The association is defined as "a plant community of definite floristic composition, uniform habitat conditions, and uniform physiognomy" (see Flahault and Schroter 1910 in Moravec 1993). This basic concept has been used by most of the schools of floristic classification (Whittaker 1962, Braun-Blanquet 1965, Westhoff and van der Maarel 1973, Moravec 1993). The plant association is differentiated from the alliance level by additional plant species, found in any stratum, which indicate finer scale environmental patterns and disturbance regimes. This level is derived from analyzing complete floristic composition of the vegetation unit when plot data are available. In the absence of a complete data set, approximation of this level is reached by using available information on the dominant species or environmental modifiers, and their hypothesized indicator species. NatureServe 2002 Association names. Vegetation is depicted as points with vegetation type and associated hierarchy as attributes. NatureServe 2002 USGS/CSS/Core Science Analytics and Synthesis USGS-NPS Vegetation Characterization Program Coordinator mailing and physical address

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