| Table 1. Areas of vegetative cover types in the New Mexico Mesa and Plains, physiographic area 85. Forest coverages are taken from USFS FIA data, nonforest cover types are modified from USGS data. Habitat coverages with superscript * are combined from both databases by adding USGS coverage in the "nonforest" section of the USFS database. | |||
| Cover types | Area (ha) |
Area (ac) |
Percent of Total |
| Douglas fir forest | 53,100 |
131,210 |
0.40 |
| Ponderosa pine forest * | 979,700 |
2,420,839 |
7.41 |
| Fir-spruce forest * | 20,600 |
50,903 |
0.16 |
| Lodgepole pine forest | 303,100 |
748,960 |
2.29 |
| Pinyon pine-juniper forest * | 2,775,900 |
6,859,249 |
21.00 |
| Mixed hardwood forest * | 55,200 |
136,399 |
0.42 |
| Aspen-birch forest * | 9,600 |
23,722 |
0.07 |
| Irrigated agriculture, wheat, corn, soybeans | 94,600 |
233,757 |
0.72 |
| Bluestem, wheatgrass grassland | 242,700 |
599,712 |
1.84 |
| Grama grassland | 2,146,600 |
5,304,249 |
16.24 |
| Pasture, hay, mixed crops | 1,100 |
2,718 |
0.01 |
| Sagebrush prairie | 5,370,300 |
13,270,011 |
40.63 |
| Greasewood brushland | 1,073,900 |
2,653,607 |
8.12 |
| Alpine tundra | 3,600 |
8,896 |
0.03 |
| Water | 15,100 |
37,312 |
0.12 |
| Urban | 71,400 |
176,429 |
0.54 |
| No data | 200 |
494 |
0.00 |
| Totals | 13,216,700 |
32,658,465 |
100 |