Agriculture, Gardening & Landscape Architecture
Now available is a detailed color vegetation map of Saipan, Northern Mariana Islands produced by the US Forest Service.
Posted September 15, 2013
The chapters below from the textbook Island Ecology and Environmental Management: CNMI have information about Agriculture, Gardening and Landscape Architecture (pdf):
Chapter 30 Farming & Gardening Practices [J. Furey]
Chapter 42 Building & Landscape Design; and Community Aesthetics [J. Furey, P. Peshut, & K. Francis]
The United States Department of Agriculture (USDA) has the following programs:
Link to APASEEM Soil & Soil Resources Conservation page
A variety of US Government Topographical, Soil and other MAPS of the Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands from the Perry-Castañeda Library Map Collection of the University of Texas Libraries:
- General Soil Map of the Island of Saipan from the United States Department of Agriculture (USDA)
- General Soil Map of the Islands of Tinian and Aguijan(Goat Island) from the United States Department of Agriculture (USDA)
- General Soil Map of the Island of Rota(Luta) from the United States Department of Agriculture (USDA).
Pacific Basin Online Soil Survey Manuscripts for ten areas of the western Pacific at the Natural Resources Conservation Service (NRCS) website.
NRCS is a program of the United States Department of Agriculture (USDA).
Last Updated 9/25/2013