Wind Cave National Park, Field Plots Data Base for Vegetation Mapping

Vegetation field plots at Wind Cave NP were visited, described, and documented in a digital database. The database consists of 2 parts - (1) Physical Descriptive Data, and (2) Species Listings. The vegetation plots were used to describe the vegetation in and around Wind Cave National Park and to assist in developing a final mapping classification system. Wind Cave National Park and about a 2 mile which includes private lands and portions of Custer State Park and Black Hills National Forest. Field sampling was conducted using releve plots. Information for this metadata was obtained from the site 'http://biology.usgs.gov/npsveg/wica/metawicafield.html' and put into NASA Directory Interchange Format.