United States 

 Department of 

 Agriculture 



Forest 

 Service 



MisceJIaneous 

 Publication 

 Number 1439 



Washington, D.C. 

 July 1984 



An Ecological Land 

 Classification Framework 

 for the United States 



Richard S. Driscoll, Program Manager 



U.S. Department of Agriculture, Forest Service 



Resources Evaluations Techniques Program 



Rocky Mountain Forest and Range Experiment Station 



Fort Collins, Cob. 



Daniel L Merkel, Project Leader 



U.S. Department of Agriculture, Soil Conservation Service 



David L Radloff, Research Forester 



U.S. Department of Agriculture, Forest Service 



Dale E. Snyder, Soil Scientist 



U.S. Department of Agriculture, Soil Conservation Service 



James S. Hagihara, Research Management Coordinator 

 U.S. Department of Interior, Bureau of Land Management 



For sale by the Superintendent of Documents, U.S. Government Printing Office 

 Washington, D.C. 20402 



