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Overview
National Capital Parks-East is one of eleven park units inventoried in the National Captial Region Vegetation Inventory Project in Maryland, Virginia, West Virginia and the District of Columbia. Manassas National Battlefield Park encompasses 4,357 hectares in Maryland and D.C. of the Coastal Plain ecological region. Much of the contemporary forest consists of secondary hardwood and pine-hardwood forests that have developed after repeated cutting or agricultural abandonment. The diversity of wetlands in this region includes tidal and palustrine swamps; non-riverine, groundwater-saturated flats; seasonally flooded ponds and depressions; seepage slope wetlands; and various tidal and nontidal aquatic habitats.The National Capital Region Parks Vegetation Inventory Project delivers many geospatial and vegetation data products, including an in-depth project report discussing methods and results, which include descriptions to vegetation associations, field keys to vegetation associations, map classification, and map-class descriptions. The suite of products also includes a database of vegetation plots, and accuracy assessment (AA) sites; digital images of field sites; digital aerial imagery; digital maps; a contingency table listing AA results; and a geodatabase of vegetation, field sites (vegetation plots, and AA sites), aerial imagery, project boundary, and metadata.
Products
The products of vegetation mapping projects are stored and managed in the National Park Service's Data Store, a repository for documents and publications relating to park resources. From the highlighted items below, click on the type of information you are looking for.
Last updated: July 23, 2024