{"id":22613,"date":"2006-06-14T10:16:17","date_gmt":"2006-06-14T17:16:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/stage.headlessnauedu-b6hgdzckfdgxgzhe.westus-01.azurewebsites.net\/?p=22613"},"modified":"2015-08-17T15:05:17","modified_gmt":"2015-08-17T22:05:17","slug":"new-web-site-details-pinyon-juniper-management-on-colorado-plateau","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/news\/new-web-site-details-pinyon-juniper-management-on-colorado-plateau\/","title":{"rendered":"New web site details pinyon-juniper management  on Colorado Plateau"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Northern Arizona University, in partnership with the Bureau of Land Management and U.S. Geological Survey, has launched a new web site and online database of pinyon-juniper treatments on the Colorado Plateau.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>In a three-year project, the team captured all pinyon-juniper records from Colorado Plateau BLM offices and converted the information into a powerful Oracle database built by NAU&#8217;s Information Technology Services. The database is an archive of all past pinyon-juniper removal and re-vegetation projects the BLM has completed across the Colorado Plateau. The web site is\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.mpcer.nau.edu\/pj\/pjwood\/\" target=\"_blank\">www.mpcer.nau.edu\/pj\/pjwood\/<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;This database will be useful to researchers and land managers alike,&#8221; said\u00a0<strong>Neil Cobb<\/strong>, director of the Merriam-Powell Center for Environmental Research at NAU. &#8220;It will allow people to ask very specific questions about treatments in their area or, alternatively, to conduct regional level analyses using hundreds of treatments.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Cobb said the web site provides a wealth of information. It includes more than 2,000 treatment images, downloadable maps, an online mapping system and a database with 763 BLM pinyon-juniper treatments, which lets the user to choose results from 187 categories, such as temperature, rainfall and soil type.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;This data will be key to facilitating research, landscape-level analyses, and regional land management planning for pinyon-juniper woodlands, the third largest vegetation type in the U.S.,&#8221; he said.<\/p>\n<p>Cobb credited the efforts of Lynn Jackson of the BLM,\u00a0<strong>Keith Buhrer<\/strong>\u00a0of NAU&#8217;s Information Technology Services, who created the database and provided web support, and Julie Prior-Magee with the USGS-Southwest Information Node, who provided additional resources.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The project demonstrates how a multi-institutional partnership has resulted in access to information that will facilitate natural resource planning on the Colorado Plateau,&#8221; said Prior-Magee.<\/p>\n<p>Efforts are currently under way to create a similar database for sagebrush treatments and should be available in about a year.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"search-results-excerpt-link\" href=\"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/news\/new-web-site-details-pinyon-juniper-management-on-colorado-plateau\/\">Northern Arizona University, in partnership with the Bureau of Land Management and U.S. Geological Survey, has launched a new web site and online database of pinyon-juniper treatments on the Colorado Plateau. In a three-year project, the team captured all pinyon-juniper records from Colorado Plateau BLM offices and converted the information into a powerful Oracle database&hellip;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":46,"featured_media":22614,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-22613","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-campus-community"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22613","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/46"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=22613"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22613\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/22614"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=22613"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=22613"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=22613"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}