Condition Trend Analysis Data Summaries: Preliminary Data Applications

program is the standard for land inventory and monitoring, using standard methods of natural resources data collection, analyses and reporting designed to meet multiple goals and objectives This report presents a general overview of LCTA data applications and documentation capabilities for use in natural resource management plans andI other environmental compliance documents. Spec fically, this report focuses on preliminary summanzation of univariate vegetation and wildlife data collected on LCTA core plots. Analyses presented are intended to provide Army land managers a greater degree of flexibility with respect to characterizing the condition of hfe insNation's natural resources, but by no means represents an exhaustive treatment of analysis opt ions. Necessary considerations required to properly interpret each summary are identified in addition to the mathematical calculations behind each analysis. DTIC ELECT