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 Rocky Mountain Lodgepole Pine Forest shows the greatest differences between reference and current amounts of succession classes, with a substantial overrepresentation of succession class C on the landscape today.
• Some BpSs have large underrepresentation of some succession classes on the landscape today. For example succession class D is largely missing in the Southern Rocky Mountain Ponderosa Pine Woodland which is likely due to recent fire suppression.