United States Geological Survey - National Land Cover Database
type: https://bioregistry.io/schema/#0000001
contributor: Charles Tapley Hoyt
description: A vocabulary for describing the usage of land cover (e.g., pasture, wetlands, barren, forest, water) extended from the original 16 land cover classes proposed by the [Anderson Level II classification system](https://doi.org/10.3133/pp964) in 1976
is part of: bioregistry
keyword: environment
keyword: forestry
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0000012: false
0000018: envo
0000029: nlcd