Upper Peninsula Deer Habitat Classification Category Descriptions

 

 

Non-Conifer

 

1. Urban: Urban and built up land includes areas of intensive human use with much of the land covered by man-made materials.

 

2. Non-Vegetated: Non-Vegetated land includes areas mostly void of vegetation.  Examples would be sand beaches, rock outcrops, and mudflats.

 

3. Agricultural Cropland:  Agricultural cropland includes areas used to produce small grains and row crops.  Hay fields would probably be classified under herbaceous openland.

 

4. Herbaceous Openland:  Herbaceous openland includes areas dominated by grasses and forbs.  Examples include prairies, grasslands and rangelands.

 

5. Shrubland:  Shrubland includes areas dominated by native shrubs and low woody plants.

 

6. Northern Hardwoods:  Areas where the following species dominate or are intermixed - sugar and red maple, elm, beech, yellow birch. cherry, basswood, and white ash.

 

7. Oak: Areas where any of the oak species dominate the forest cover.

 

8. Aspen:  Areas where aspen, white birch, and related species dominate the forest cover.

 

9. Lowland Hardwoods:  Areas where lowland hardwood species such as red ash, elm, red maple, and balsam poplar dominate the forest cover.

 

10. Dry Hardwood-Conifer Mix:  Areas where a nearly equal mix if hardwoods and conifers dominate the forest cover in an upland environment.

 

11. Wet Hardwood-Conifer Mix:  Areas where a nearly equal mix if hardwoods and conifers dominate the forest cover in an lowland environment.

 

12. Wetlands:  Areas that are flooded with water. Examples include marshes, wooded swamps, floating vegetation in lakes and ponds, and bogs.  Lowland hardwoods and lowland conifers are not included in this category.

 

13. Water:  Open water bodies.

 

Conifer

 

14. Red Pine:  Areas where red pine dominates the forest cover.

 

15. White Pine:  Areas where white pine dominates the forest cover.

 

16. Jack Pine:  Areas where jack pine dominates the forest cover.

 

17. Other Pine:  Areas of forest dominated by a mix of pine species or pine species other than red, white or jack pine.

 

18. Tamarack:  Areas where the forest cover is dominated by tamarack.

 

19. Hemlock <70% CC:  Hemlock stands with less than 70% but more than 40% total canopy closure contributed by hemlock.

 

20. Hemlock >70% CC:  Hemlock stands with greater than 70% total canopy closure contributed by hemlock.

 

21. Black spruce <70% CC:  Black spruce stands with less than 70% but more than 40% total canopy closure contributed by black spruce.

 

22. Black Spruce >70% CC:  Black spruce stands with greater than 70% total canopy closure contributed by black spruce.

 

23. White spruce <70% CC:  White spruce stands with less than 70% but more than 40% total canopy closure contributed by white spruce.

 

24. White spruce >70% CC:  White spruce stands with greater than 70% total canopy closure contributed by white spruce.

 

25. Balsam fir <70% CC:  Balsam fir stands with less than 70% but more than 40% total canopy closure contributed by balsam fir.

 

26. Balsam fir >70% CC:  Balsam fir stands with greater than 70% total canopy closure contributed by balsam fir.

 

27. White cedar <70% CC:  White cedar stands with less than 70% but more than 40% total canopy closure contributed by white cedar.

 

28. White cedar >70% CC:  White cedar stands with greater than 70% total canopy closure contributed by white cedar.

 

29. Mixed conifer <70% CC:  Mixed conifer stands with less than 70% but more than 40% total canopy closure contributed by mixed conifer.

 

30. Mixed conifer >70% CC:  Mixed conifer stands with greater than 70% total canopy closure contributed by mixed conifer.