U.S. flag

An official website of the United States government

icon-dot-gov

Official websites use .gov
A .gov website belongs to an official government organization in the United States.

icon-https

Secure .gov websites use HTTPS
A lock ( ) or https:// means you’ve safely connected to the .gov website. Share sensitive information only on official, secure websites.

Vegetation and soil data from reclaimed oil and gas well pads managed by the Bureau of Land Management, Carlsbad Field Office, New Mexico

These data were compiled to support a study of how environmental setting affects the success of well pad reclamation within the region managed by the Bureau of Land Management, Carlsbad Field Office in southeastern New Mexico, USA. The data were collected in 2022 and 2023 and represent vegetation, soil, and climate conditions at 70 reclaimed well pads from 4 to 24 years after the wells were plugged and reclaimed. The data were collected by the U.S. Geological Survey, Southwest Biological Science Center, Moab, UT, Research Station, using field observations and some remotely sensed or mapped products (gridded climate and soil property maps). The data can be used to represent the environmental condition of the well pads at the time of collection, the elapsed time between when wells were plugged (a proxy for the start of the reclamation process) and when data were collected, and the climate at each well pad as represented by the global aridity index. For some data, samples were taken both on well pads and adjacent to them in relatively undisturbed areas and so may be used to compare the condition of pads with adjacent reference conditions.

Get Data and Metadata
Author(s) J. G Penn, Aarin Sengsirirak, Anna C Knight orcid, Lauren A Zeller, Charlotte P Tierney, Seth M Munson orcid, Miguel Villarreal orcid, Michael C Duniway orcid
Publication Date 2025-03-04
Beginning Date of Data 2022-08-23
Ending Date of Data 2023-11-14
Data Contact
DOI https://doi.org/10.5066/P1P7C4OF
Citation Penn, J.G., Sengsirirak, A., Knight, A.C., Zeller, L.A., Tierney, C.P., Munson, S.M., Villarreal, M., and Duniway, M.C., 2025, Vegetation and soil data from reclaimed oil and gas well pads managed by the Bureau of Land Management, Carlsbad Field Office, New Mexico: U.S. Geological Survey data release, https://doi.org/10.5066/P1P7C4OF.
Metadata Contact
Metadata Date 2025-03-04
Related Publication
Citations of these data No citations of these data are known at this time.
Access public
License http://www.usa.gov/publicdomain/label/1.0/
Loading...
Harvest Source: ScienceBase
Harvest Date: 2025-03-05T05:12:45.053Z