This week, as part of your Natural Resources Inventory project work, you will co

This week, as part of your Natural Resources Inventory project work, you will continue collecting data for the NRI for the community you care about. Identification and assessment of vegetative and landscape modification is important to protecting, restoring, and enhancing natural resources.
Step 1: Research land use and land cover changes in your study area
Below are resources, many of which are mapping tools, which will aid your research efforts:
Global Forest Watch: Tree Cover Changes
(Links to an external site.)
NOAA Land Cover
(Links to an external site.)
MRLC Land Cover Viewer
(Links to an external site.)
USDA Cropscape (Cropland Data Layer)
(Links to an external site.)
Landfire Web Hosted Applications Map (WHAM!)
(Links to an external site.)
Biome Viewer
(Links to an external site.)
Global ecosystems viewer
(Links to an external site.)
Land cover viewer
(Links to an external site.)
Step 2: Discuss the problems associated with changing land use in your area
In a word processing document of 400-500 words that include at least three graphs, charts, or images that support your findings.
As done previously, divide your report into two sections:
Causes
Effects