Comparisons

Comparing Past vs. Present Conditions

Using LANDFIRE’s BpS products, we explore two different ways to visualize past vs. current vegetation patterns.

• First we present changes in broad ecosystem types using an interactive comparison diagram.
• Second we compare amounts of succession classes (past and present) for the most prevalent ecosystems.

Comparing Broad Vegetation Trends

Summary

• Broadly speaking, this subregion has not experienced significant ecosystem conversion to agricultural or urban land uses.
  
• Note: number presented when hovering equals acres.

Succession classes for most dominant BpSs

• The Northern Rocky Mountain Dry-Mesic Montane Mixed Conifer Forest - Ponderosa Pine-Douglas-fir shows a substantial ‘over-representation’ of succession class D and a corresponding under-representation of class C presumably due to altered disturbance regimes.
• The Northern Rocky Mountain Subalpine Woodland and Parkland shows a substantial under-representation of class B, and a over-representation of class D.