Modeled 2030 land cover for the Northern Glaciated Plains ecoregion
The USGS Forecasting Scenarios of Land-use Change (FORE-SCE) model was used to produce an agricultural biofuel scenarios for the Northern Glaciated Plains, from 2012 to 2030.  The modeling used parcel data from the USDA's Common Land Unit (CLU) data set to represent real, contiguous ownership and land management …