Distribution relative to roads 52

1. For the collected White Top points, what is their average distance to a

major road?

2. Within the entire state of Idaho, what is the average distance to a

major road?

3. Explain how you calculated 1&2.

4. Are the White Top points skewed relative to distance to road? Explain

how this analysis helps you know this. Give one hypothesis why the

point location data might (or might not) be skewed relative to distance

to major roads. 53/n6. Only BLM, Private & State lands are available for future sampling.

These lands represent a total land area of 126,123 km². Relative to the

total land area available for future sampling, what percentage of land

area is owned by:

a. BLM

b. Private

c. State

7. Calculate the percentage of White Top points on land owned by:

a. BLM

b. Private

c. State

8. Of the three land ownership classes, which have been oversampled?

Which have been under sampled?

Distribution relative to annual rainfall

9. Are the White Top points found in areas of lower or higher annual

rainfall than the state as a whole?

10.

Create a histogram of the White Top points relative to annual

rainfall. Create a histogram to compare this to for a random set of

points in Idaho.54