Table 5. Major land cover composition
(%) within each MSA, based on the 1-km resolution USGS Level 2 Land Use
Land Cover data set [USGS LULC, 2001].
| Land Cover Class | North Park | Rabbit Ears | Fraser | |||
| % | km2 | % | km2 | % | km2 | |
| Herbaceous Rangeland | 0.0 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 0.1 | 0.6 |
| Shrub and Brush Rangeland | 69.9 | 432.6 | 2.7 | 17.1 | 1.9 | 12.0 |
| Mixed Rangeland | 1.8 | 11.2 | 14.3 | 89.3 | 2.0 | 12.7 |
| Cropland or Pasture | 25.7 | 158.8 | 8.0 | 49.9 | 3.3 | 20.4 |
| Other Agricultural Land | 0.2 | 1.3 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 0.3 |
| Evergreen Forest Land | 0.0 | 0.0 | 44.5 | 277.0 | 72.4 | 451.9 |
| Deciduous Forest Land | 0.0 | 0.0 | 17.3 | 108.0 | 0.2 | 1.1 |
| Mixed Forest Land | 0.0 | 0.0 | 10.4 | 64.6 | 2.7 | 16.9 |
| Nonforested Wetland | 0.1 | 0.4 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 0.0 |
| Forested Wetland | 1.0 | 6.1 | 0.1 | 0.9 | 0.1 | 0.7 |
| Herbaceous Tundra | 0.0 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 8.5 | 53.1 |
| Shrub and Brush Tundra | 0.0 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 3.0 | 18.9 |
| Mixed Tundra | 0.0 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 0.8 | 4.7 |
| Bare Ground | 0.0 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 1.8 | 11.0 |
| Bare Exposed Rock | 0.0 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 0.4 | 2.7 |
| Lakes | 0.1 | 0.6 | 0.2 | 1.4 | 0.0 | 0.0 |
| Reservoirs | 0.7 | 4.0 | 0.1 | 0.8 | 0.0 | 0.1 |
| Residential | 0.1 | 0.7 | 0.8 | 5.1 | 0.4 | 2.6 |
| Commercial and Services | 0.1 | 0.8 | 0.2 | 1.2 | 0.2 | 1.1 |
| Industrial | 0.1 | 0.4 | 0.0 | 0.1 | 0.0 | 0.2 |
| Mixed Urban or Built-up | 0.0 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 0.2 | 1.4 |
| Other Urban or Built-up | 0.0 | 0.1 | 0.9 | 5.9 | 0.9 | 5.7 |
| Strip Mines | 0.1 | 0.6 | 0.0 | 0.3 | 0.0 | 0.3 |
| Transportation, Communications, Utilities | 0.2 | 1.1 | 0.0 | 0.1 | 0.0 | 0.2 |
| Transitional Areas | 0.0 | 0.0 | 0.2 | 1.5 | 0.9 | 5.4 |