Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources - Wisconsin County Forests

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https://data-wi-dnr.opendata.arcgis.com/datasets/wi-dnr::wisconsin-county-forests-1

Description:

DEFINITION:This is the County Forests layer dissolved by county from a stand (or forest management) layer used in the Wisconsin Forest Inventory & Reporting System (WisFIRS) and intended for cartographic representation of county forests in Wisconsin."County forests" include all county lands entered and participating under ch. 77 on October 2, 1963, and all county lands designated as county forests by the county board or the forestry committee and entered under the county forest law and designated as "county forest lands" or "county special use lands" as hereinafter provided.GEOGRAPHIC EXTENT:Statewide (Only 30 counties that have County Forest Lands).SOURCE SCALE:VariedPURPOSE/BACKGROUND:The purpose of county forests is to provide a permanent program of county forests and to enable and encourage the planned development and management of the county forests for optimum production of forest products together with recreational opportunities, wildlife, watershed protection and stabilization of stream flow, giving full recognition to the concept of multiple-use to assure maximum public benefits; to protect the public rights, interests and investments in such lands; and to compensate the counties for the public uses, benefits and privileges these lands provide; all in a manner which will provide a reasonable revenue to the towns in which such lands lie.  This layer was created to provide a more accurate representation of county forests beyond simply identifying PLSS quarter-quarter sections containing County Forests.  The “PLSS method” of representation may overlap private or other ownership types.This GIS layer was created by dissolving managed stand information from the WisFIRS Public Lands Management application.  Stands coded as private (998 = inholding) or non-DNR (999, 9999 = non-DNR, Fed, etc.) were removed from the dissolve.  The layer used to create this data is continually edited. CONTACT PERSON(S):GIS contact Laura Waddle, DNR-IT, (608) 320-4648, Laura.Waddle@Wisconsin.govProgram contact Doug Brown, Forestry Field Operations, (715) 966-0157, Douglas.Brown@wisconsin.govUPDATE FREQUENCY:Annual.  Edits to County Forest stand information in WisFIRS used to generate the county forest feature class may occur at any time during the year; however, we will compile this layer annually.  The GIS layer was last updated on September 6, 2024.PROJECTION:NAD_1983_HARN_Wisconsin_TM (Meters)WKID: 3071 Authority: EPSGATTRIBUTES:Field Descriptions:FR_PROP_CO: Forestry Property Code assigned by DNR Forestry.PROP_NAME: Name of the property.  Usually “County Name” County ForestCHANGE_DT: Date of most data update.CHANGE_BY: Name of person to do most recent data update.COLL_CODE: Collection method code. For example, OTH001 (other collection method).COLL_TEXT: Description of collection method.ADDITIONAL INFORMATION:For more information on the Wisconsin County Forests program, refer to the official website:  https://www.wisconsincountyforests.com/USER ADVISORY:The completed treatments data in WisFIRS may not be entirely complete. The majority of treatments completed in the field have been entered into WisFIRS; however, there are some treatments that have not been recorded as completed in WisFIRS - particularly those implemented prior to October 2014. Additionally, not all treatments that have been completed in WisFIRS as tabular records of completed treatments have been mapped spatially in the WisFIRS GIS application – particularly those implemented prior to October 2014. Overall, most completed treatments have been recorded and mapped, but it is important to recognize that there are treatments that have not been accounted for in WisFIRS. This dataset was automatically cataloged from the creator's Open Data Portal. In some cases, publication year and bounding coordinates shown here may be incorrect. Additional download formats may be available on the author's website. Please check the 'More details at' link for additional information.

Creator:

Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources

Provider:

American Geographical Society Library – UWM Libraries

Resource Class:

Datasets

Resource Type:

Digital maps

Temporal Coverage:

Issued 2023

Date Issued:

2023-02-02

Spatial Coverage:

Wisconsin and United States

Rights:

Although this data is being distributed by the American Geographical Society Library at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee Libraries, no warranty expressed or implied is made by the University as to the accuracy of the data and related materials. The act of distribution shall not constitute any such warranty, and no responsibility is assumed by the University in the use of this data, or related materials.

Access Rights:

Public

Format:

Shapefile