Historical land-use/land-cover changes in a bottomland hardwood forest, Bayou Fountain, Louisiana
Forest ; Geographical information system ; Human impact ; LANDSAT ; Land use ; Louisiana ; Remote sensing ; Riparian vegetation ; Thematic Mapper ; United States of America ; Vegetation
The AA. used GIS to compare past land-use/land-cover information from General Land Office (GLO) surveys taken in 1849/1851 with current forest composition to illustrate the extensive changes that have occurred in bottomland hardwood forest
composition over the past 150 years in East Baton Rouge Parish, Louisiana. Agricultural lands, hardwood wetlands, and urban lands increased in area at the expense of rangelands and swamplands. Without conservation efforts, bottomland hardwood forests