Santa Barbra County Fire and Vegetation Map (Melia)

Mar 20, 2018
Created by Melia Collard
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This map shows three important and relevant data sets. It shows the county boundary of Santa Barbra, the fire probability until 2050, and grazing area vegetation. it also shows the Cachuma Lake recreation area. I chose these data sets because I wanted to observe what the fire probability would be surrounding a body of water and how it would differ from other parts of the land. I chose the vegetation because I wanted to compare the vegetation types to what the probability of fire was and find connections. I wanted to see if certain types of vegetation were more likely to burn.
 
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      California Department of Forestry and Fire Protection (using data from BOR, DFG, and DOC FMMP), California Department of Fish and Game
      In late 1996, the Dept of Conservation (DOC) surveyed state and federal agencies about the county boundary coverage they used. As a result, DOC adopted the 1:24,000 (24K) scale U.S. Bureau of Reclamation (USBR) dataset (USGS source) for their Farmland Mapping and Monitoring Program (FMMP) but with several...
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    About the Map Author

    Melia Collard
    Student with Midland School

    Student at Midland school