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Grassland Vegetation Inventory: A User’s Guide
March 10, 2016
This full day course will be held on Thursday March 10, 2016 in Calgary. Through hands on exercises, this course provides participants with both a contextual and practical understanding of the Grassland Vegetation Inventory using various real world management scenarios.
The Government of Alberta has been undertaking the production of a publicly available spatial GVI database for southern Alberta. When used at different scales, GVI provides two tools for management: the classification system and the spatial inventory. Both can be used to assess the diversity and sensitivity of land uses in the grasslands, from desktop to field applications, such as:
*Determining grassland plant communities
*Assessing range health
*Conducting environmental assessments
*Assessing accuracy of other spatial inventories
*Assessing regional and local scale impacts
*Modelling sensitive wildlife species habitat
*Creating reclamation & restoration plans