| Table 1. Areas of vegetative cover types in the Aspen Parklands, physiographic area 30. U.S. forest coverages are taken from USFS FIA data, nonforest cover types are modified from USGS data. Habitat types with superscript * consist of coverages combined from USFS FIA data with the addition of USGS data in the "nonforest" portion. Canadian coverages are taken from the CCRS landcover database. | |||
| Cover types | Area (ha) |
Area (ac) |
Percent of Total |
| United States | |||
| White-red-jack pine forests | 32,153 |
79,451 |
0.08 |
| Spruce-fir forest * | 3,683 |
9,101 |
0.01 |
| Maple-beech-birch forest * | 134,785 |
333,054 |
0.34 |
| Oak-hickory forest | 30.461 |
75,269 |
0.08 |
| Aspen-birch forest | 153,400 |
379,051 |
0.39 |
| Oak-maple forest | 54,252 |
134,058 |
0.14 |
| Wheat | 900,390 |
2,224,863 |
2.26 |
| Corn, irrigated agriculture | 75,456 |
186,451 |
0.19 |
| Bluestem, wheatgrass grassland | 2,090 |
5,166 |
0.01 |
| Pasture, hay, mixed crops | 1,095 |
2,706 |
0.00 |
| Water * | 16,226 |
40,094 |
0.04 |
| Canada | |||
| High density evergreen forest | 164,648 |
406,846 |
0.41 |
| Medium density evergreen forest | 156,884 |
387,660 |
0.39 |
| Low density evergreen forest | 647,644 |
1,600,327 |
1.63 |
| Mixed deciduous forest | 2,921,663 |
7,219,430 |
7.35 |
| Mixed evergreen forest | 318,148 |
786,143 |
0.80 |
| Mixed intermediate uniform forest | 252,348 |
623,552 |
0.64 |
| Mixed intermediate heterogeneous forest | 1,906,895 |
4,711,938 |
4.80 |
| Barren land | 47,881 |
118,315 |
0.12 |
| Transition treed shrubland | 484,289 |
1,196,679 |
1.22 |
| Wetland-shrubland | 1,164,883 |
2,878,425 |
2.93 |
| Grassland | 267,877 |
661,925 |
0.67 |
| Cropland | 18,475,662 |
45,653,360 |
46.49 |
| Mosaic land, woodland-cropland | 9,738,645 |
24,064,191 |
24.51 |
| Urban | 149,418 |
369,212 |
0.38 |
| No data | 1,637,425 |
4,046,077 |
4.12 |
| Totals | 39,738,301 |
98,193,343 |
100 |