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Vermont and
New Hampshire
The Process
Stewardship lands
Analysis of gaps
VT-NH GAP has predictive habitat models and maps
for 306 terrestrial vertebrates
Species Richness
TM Imagery, 1992-93;
Summer and fall scenes;
Supervised classification;
Details www.snr.uvm/sal
Land cover mapping
23 Threatened
and Endangered
species
VT-NH Gap Analysis: The Bottom Line
•Bedrock
•Surficial
•Elevation
•Landform
• 21 % of area of state
• 89 % of landscape
richness
• 95 % landscape
similarity
VT-NH Gap Analysis
494 265
7 5 20% of state:
8 2 6
•88% of LDUs
•97% of vertebrates
1 4
10
Heritage Program
Elements of Occurrence
“EORs”
•6349 EORs
•16% on status 1 & 2
stewardship lands
EORs = 4958 Vertebrates = 292
325 243
10% of state:
7 6
2 3 •19% of EORs
•97% of vertebrates
8
20% of state:
1
9
•24% of EORs
10 •97% of vertebrates
5 4