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Table 16. Summary statistics for group map classes.
Group Map Class
Project area
# Polygons ha ac
Park area
% Project
land cover ha ac
% Park
land cover
Occurrence
outside park
boundaries
G1 Agriculture 27 9.3 23.1 0.0% 0.5 1.3 0.0% 94.3%
G2 Colorado Plateau Mixed Bedrock and Tableland 90 378.5 935.4 0.7% 260.7 644.1 0.7% 31.1%
G3 Colorado Plateau Pinyon-Juniper Woodland 27 211.4 522.3 0.4% 70.8 174.9 0.2% 66.5%
G4 Development 6 1.4 3.5 0.0% 0.0 0.0 0.0% 100.0%
G5
Inter-Mountain Basins Active and Stabilized
Dune
377 1631.0 4030.4 3.1% 946.6 2339.1 2.5% 42.0%
G6 Inter-Mountain Basins Greasewood Flat 78 275.8 681.6 0.5% 242.4 599.0 0.6% 12.1%
G7
Inter-Mountain Basins Riparian Woodland and
Shrubland
76 183.0 452.2 0.3% 66.0 163.0 0.2% 63.9%
G8 Inter-Mountain Basins Wash 784 2916.1 7205.9 5.5% 2068.4 5111.1 5.4% 29.1%
G9 Inter-Mountain Basins Semi-Desert Grassland 701 5475.0 13529.1 10.3% 2164.7 5349.0 5.7% 60.5%
G10
Inter-Mountain Basins Semi-Desert Shrub-
Steppe
2199 21530.6 53203.3 40.5% 17007.4 42026.2 44.7% 21.0%
G11 Inter-Mountain Basins Shale Badland 688 8512.2 21034.2 16.0% 7015.6 17335.9 18.4% 17.6%
G12 Park Facilities 23 16.8 41.4 0.0% 16.8 41.4 0.0% 0.0%
G13 Residential 23 2.4 6.0 0.0% 0.1 0.2 0.0% 96.9%
G14 Southern Colorado Plateau Sand Shrubland 1835 11832.1 29237.7 22.2% 8051.6 19895.9 21.2% 32.0%
G15 Transportation 55 225.4 557.0 0.4% 145.9 360.5 0.4% 35.3%
Total 1 6989 53,201.1 131,463.3 38,057.2 94,041.1
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Area totals may vary by 0.1 to 0.2 units due to rounding.
Vegetation Classification and Distribution Mapping Report: Petrified Forest National Park