Dataset Selection: B13

EPA Kuchler Potential Natural Vegetation of the Conterminous United States

Principal Investigators:

A.W. Kuchler
US Geological Survey

James Lenihan, David Crumpacker, and Stephen Hodge
USEPA - Environmental Research Laboratory
Corvallis, Oregon

Summary:

This coverage was digitized at the USEPA from the 1979 Physiographic Regions Map produced by the BLM, which added 10 physiognomic types to Kuchler's 1966 USGS Potential Natural Vegetation map (and similarly differs from the 1985 USGS map revised by Kuchler and others) The dataset consists of two thematic layera a) Vegetation Form and b) Vegetation Type.  Data is gridded at a resolution of  5km by 5km.
 

Primary References:

Kuchler, A.W. 1964. Potential Natural Vegetation of the Conterminous United States, American Geographical Society, Special Publication No. 36.