What are considered fragmenting features?
A. All non-forest land covers divide forest up into smaller, more isolated patches and thus fragment the forest. However, the forest fragmentation maps are intended to highlight the forest fragmentation caused by human modifications of the environment. When creating the maps, we considered the following land cover classes to be fragmenting features: developed, turf and grass, other grasses, agricultural field, barren, and utility corridor. Maps using a different set of land cover types for the fragmenting features can be created using the Landscape Fragmentation Tool.
