Good Examples and Best Practices

Goose Island, Glacier National Park. (NPS Photo)

Examples and practices that can be useful in planning and initiating a vegetation inventory project.

Planning

1. Calling a Scoping Meeting: Example Memo to NPS Network/Park Staff

2. Study Plan Development: Link to Example Study Plans for Review
3. Helpful Examples for Planning a Project Close-out Meeting (aka: Wrap-up): ? Meeting Planning, Meeting Agenda

4. Memorandum Of Understanding (MOU) - Encouraging free flow of information: MOU (USGS-NPS) Template

Vegetation Classification

1. Classification Field Key: Two Example Field Keys

2. Vegetation Type Descriptions: Example from Weir Farm

Mapping
1. GIS Database (Arc10 Geodatabase Template and User Guide). Download here: ESRI File-based Personal Geodatabase Template for ArcGIS 10
2. Creating Map Symbology for Map Visualization
3. Mapdoc Templates (ArcGIS 8.3 and ArcGIS 10) : ArcGIS 8.3 Templates; ArcGIS 10 Templates
Accuracy Assessment

1. Accuracy Assessment Field Form: Example from Joshua Tree National Park (JOTR)

2. Accuracy Assessment Report: Example from Shenandoah National Park (SHEN)

Miscellaneous

PDA's as a Field Tool (website in progress): Link to Notes from the Field: PDA's

Resource Inventories

Good Examples and Best Practices

Examples and practices that can be useful in planning and initiating a vegetation inventory project.