Restoration of disturbed landscapes involves many considerations, generally relating to utilizing tools appropriate to a given ecological site. Soil and plant community information was gathered from an area near Midas NV, where dominant ecological site and related soil differs from minor components in a binary fashion. Loamy and Claypan ecological sites respectively, vary along an elevation and precipitation gradient through 8�-10�, 10�-12� and 12�-14� precipitation zones. Spatial statistics from areas identified during field surveys with be utilized to build physical parameters for soil component extent at the site to determine soil component type. This information combined with ecological site change along aspect and elevation changes could provide spatial mapping of six ecological sites at landscape scale. Vegetation sampling methods will also be compared to provide a locally accurate relationship between line point intercept, continuous line intercept (for shrub species), Daubenmire and ground based vertical imagery (GBVI) as provided by Open Range Consulting. GBVI can be utilized as training datasets to create land cover maps at a landscape scale. If a relationship is established between traditional plot scale vegetation metrics and classified land cover map pixels, then existing plot scale vegetation quantification datasets could inform landscape scale cover maps. This combined with enhanced ecological site maps as described above could provide a powerful landscape scale inventory or monitoring tool. Preliminary data will be presented and methods outlined in greater detail.
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