Map of California locating areas of study for drought and tree cover
Detailed Description
This map relates to studies about drought and tree cover in California based on LCMAP, or Land Change Monitoring, Assessment and Projection, data.
The boundary of a blue oak study area is outlined in red. It essentially surrounds the Central Valley. The boundary of the second tree cover study, based on ecoregions, is outlined in blue. Within these ecoregions are the blue oak study area and all other forests surrounding it.
The wildfire outlines (magenta) are of the 20 largest wildfires in California between 1985 to 2020, taken from Monitoring Trends in Burn Severity (MTBS) fire severity data. The location of the Wragg fire that occurred in 2015 is found north of San Francisco in the blue oak study area.
The outline in black, located in northeastern California, is the outline of two counties, Butte and Plumas.
USGS EROS map
Sources/Usage
Public Domain.