Data and Documentation for BLM's Soil-Vegetation Inventory Method (SVIM)

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Data and Documentation
BLM's Soil - Vegetation Inventory Method (SVIM)

From the BLM CD: "Bureau of Land Management: Soil Vegetation Inventory Method (SVIM): Raw Input Data - Data Element Definitions - Record Formats - J C L - Cobol Source Code. BLM Service Center - 1991"
- Documentation:
  - DATA ELEMENT DICTIONARY REPORT (PDF)
  - FILE FORMATS (PDF)
  - JOB CONTROL LANGUAGE (PDF)
  - SOURCE COBOL PROGRAMS (PDF)
- California Data (794 KB download, self extracting .zip)
- Colorado Data (2.8 MB download, self extracting .zip)
- Idaho Data (768 KB download, self extracting .zip)
- Montana Data (3.2 MB download, self extracting .zip)
- Nevada Data (546 KB download, self extracting .zip)
- New Mexico Data (3.2 MB download, self extracting .zip)
- Oregon Data (1.8 MB download, self extracting .zip)
- Utah Data (5.4 MB download, self extracting .zip)
- Wyoming Data (8.6 MB download, self extracting .zip)
- Note: The self extracting .zip files above became corrupted and possibly infected and have been removed at least temporarily.
User Requirement Document, Soil Vegetation Inventory Method (SVIM), Bureau of Land Management, Denver Service Center (scanned from a copy made from microfiche) (PDF, 25.3 MB)
Manual: Soil - Vegetation Inventory Method (SVIM). (PDF, 3.2 MB)
Range Sites (section 300 of SCS National Range Handbook, 1976) (PDF, 1.2 MB)

CLICK HERE for some additional background on SVIM and why this historical data is available here instead of from a BLM web site.