GLO Historical Mapping in Oregon
Photo courtesy USDI Bureau of Land Management, Oregon State Office
ORBIC has created maps of historical vegetation and stream networks for several areas of the state, based primarily on interpretation of public land survey records of the federal government's General Land Office (GLO). The maps depict vegetation at coarse scale (forest, woodland, savanna, prairie) and finer scale (species assemblages). In some areas where historical stream networks were altered by later agricultural and urban development, we mapped stream alignments as delineated at the time of survey.
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GLO Historical Vegetation Maps -- Oregon