Description: This map crosswalks the 2022 Landfire Existing Vegetation Map to the United States National Vegetation Classification at the Macrogroup level. The New Mexico Riparian Habitat Map (NMRipMap) was crosswalked to the USNVC Macrogroups was used to classify habitat along the river corridors.
Copyright Text: LANDFIRE, 2022, Conterminous U.S. LANDFIRE - LF 2022 (LF_230) Existing Vegetation Type Layer, U.S. Department of the Interior, Geological Survey, and U.S. Department of Agriculture. Accessed 24 October 2024 at http://www.landfire/viewer. National Vegetation Classification
Muldavin, E., E. Milford, J. Triepke, C. Gonzalez, A. Urbanovsky, G. McCartha, A. Kennedy, Y. Chauvin, J. Smith, J. Leonard, L. Elliot, P. Hanberry, D. Diamond, and A.E. Clark. 2023. New Mexico Riparian Habitat Map (NMRipMap): Version 2.0 Plus. New Mexico Natural Heritage, Museum of Southwestern Biology, University of New Mexico; USDA Forest Service, Southwest Region; Missouri Resource Assessment Partnership (MoRAP), University of Missouri, and USDA Forest Service, Geospatial Technology and Applications Center (GTAC), Salt Lake City, UT. Accessible at nhnm.unm.edu/riparian/nmripmap.