Lehman Caves National Monument Nm Statement For Management 1979 B1 Natural Resources Management Plan Environmental Assessment Ea B2 Addendum To Natural Resources Management Plan Rmp

Author : United States National Park Service
Publisher : Forgotten Books
ISBN 13 : 9780365808565
Total Pages : 64 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (85 download)

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Download or read book Proposed Natural Resources Management Plan and Environmental Assessment written by United States National Park Service and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2018-05-02 with total page 64 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from Proposed Natural Resources Management Plan and Environmental Assessment: Lehman Caves, National Monument, Nevada Soils on monument lands support native pinyon pine and Utah juniper; an inventory of major soils is proposed to provide an informed basis for vegetation management. The soil mantle is thin, overlying rocks and glacial moraine boulders of unknown depths. Approximately two-thirds of the monument rests on an alluvial plain, which dips from west to east 500 feet per mile. The remaining one-third is composed of low limestone and granite ridges rising less than 500 feet above their surroundings, but which culminate outside the monument in the summit area of Wheeler Peak at an elevation of l3,000 feet. Biologic communities at Lehman Caves have not been adequately surveyed. A flora checklist is completed but information on community structure and succession patterns is needed. Future resource management actions require an informed basis: the role of fire and the extent of forest disease or infestation have not been investigated. At present, park management relies on Forest Service data applying to larger surrounding areas of Humboldt National Forest. A detailed survey of local plant ecology on the fringes of the national forest would augment resources management to standard. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.