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GAP Stewardship - All Ownership Types

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Metadata Summary

Originator BRW, Inc
Abstract This is the complete GAP Stewardship database containing land ownership information for the entire state of Minnesota. These lands are managed for a variety of economic, environmental, and recreational uses. Attribute fields describe ownership, administrator, and conservation management code. The base cartography is derived from mathematically subdivided PLS sections. The forty acre polygons have been dissolved on the ownership values in the attribute table. Ownership reflects surface features only. Ownership is only as current as the source information and should not be considered comprehensive for the entire state. Conservation management codes are based upon the owning or administrating entity. Land interest is expressed only when some organization owns or administers more than 50 percent of a forty.
Use Tips IMPORTANT: The date of source material is variable and ranges from 1976 to 1998, although a date range of 1983 to 1985 predominates. Please be aware that these data represent a snapshot in time and are not actively maintained. DNR Land interest is not completely described in this layer. Forties where DNR has less than a 50 percent land interest are not included. The mathematically subdivided PLS sections cartography to which the GAP Stewardship data was mapped has some known irregularities with DNR land records. Government lots are often not correctly matched with DNR land records. Some non-DNR data sources date back to 1973. Many sources are early 1980s vintage. Use with caution. Not appropriate for site-specific work.
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Time Period of Content Date 1995
Currentness Reference Date of source material is varable and ranges from 1976 to 1998, although a date range of 1983 to 1985 predominates
Access Constraints None
Use Constraints This dataset is not intended for site specific work, but for more generalized analysis or reference. Appropriate uses of this data include, but are not limited to, regional or large area planning or analysis, coarse scale impacts of initiatives affecting biodiversity protection, large scale environmental impact, or education. Inappropriate uses include, but are not limited to, establishing exact boundaries of ownership or administration, establishing definite presence or absence of ownership or administration, using this data in lieu of source information for small scale analysis. PLS delineations below the forty level have been arbitrarily generated and cannot be considered in any way accurate.
Distributor Organization DNR-MIS
Ordering Instructions See Online Linkage or Distribution Contact
Online Linkage http://deli.dnr.state.mn.us


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Section 1 Identification Information   Top of page
Originator BRW, Inc
Title GAP Stewardship - All Ownership Types
Abstract This is the complete GAP Stewardship database containing land ownership information for the entire state of Minnesota. These lands are managed for a variety of economic, environmental, and recreational uses. Attribute fields describe ownership, administrator, and conservation management code. The base cartography is derived from mathematically subdivided PLS sections. The forty acre polygons have been dissolved on the ownership values in the attribute table. Ownership reflects surface features only. Ownership is only as current as the source information and should not be considered comprehensive for the entire state. Conservation management codes are based upon the owning or administrating entity. Land interest is expressed only when some organization owns or administers more than 50 percent of a forty.
Use Tips IMPORTANT: The date of source material is variable and ranges from 1976 to 1998, although a date range of 1983 to 1985 predominates. Please be aware that these data represent a snapshot in time and are not actively maintained. DNR Land interest is not completely described in this layer. Forties where DNR has less than a 50 percent land interest are not included. The mathematically subdivided PLS sections cartography to which the GAP Stewardship data was mapped has some known irregularities with DNR land records. Government lots are often not correctly matched with DNR land records. Some non-DNR data sources date back to 1973. Many sources are early 1980s vintage. Use with caution. Not appropriate for site-specific work.
Purpose These data were created specifically to support the GAP Analysis Project. The data provide ownership and administration information for each PLS quarter-quarter section and the amount of conservation management available to biodiversity elements analyzed as part of that project. In addition these data may be useful in supporting Minnesota DNR business activities related to recreation resource development and mapping, cooperative land management, and large area planning.
Time Period of Content Date 1995
Currentness Reference Date of source material is varable and ranges from 1976 to 1998, although a date range of 1983 to 1985 predominates
Progress Complete
Maintenance and Update Frequency None Planned
Spatial Extent of Data Statewide
Bounding Coordinates -97.5
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Place Keywords Minnesota
Theme Keywords land ownership, land administration, conservation status, gap analysis, GAP, planningCadastre
Theme Keyword Thesaurus None
Access Constraints None
Use Constraints This dataset is not intended for site specific work, but for more generalized analysis or reference. Appropriate uses of this data include, but are not limited to, regional or large area planning or analysis, coarse scale impacts of initiatives affecting biodiversity protection, large scale environmental impact, or education. Inappropriate uses include, but are not limited to, establishing exact boundaries of ownership or administration, establishing definite presence or absence of ownership or administration, using this data in lieu of source information for small scale analysis. PLS delineations below the forty level have been arbitrarily generated and cannot be considered in any way accurate.
Contact Person Information Robert Maki, GIS Data and Infrastructure Supervisor
DNR-MIS
500 Lafayette Road, Box 11
St. Paul, MN 55155-4011
Phone: (651) 297-2329
FAX: (651) 297-4946
E-mail:
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Section 2 Data Quality Information Top of full metadata Top of page
Attribute Accuracy Source table ADM_MAJLNDPY2.DBF: Public Land Survey attribute reference is described in metadata for the PLSDVNE2 data set. Ownership accuracy will vary depending on source information provided. No formal methods were used to verify non-PLS information in this database. No systematic review or correction procedure by source data providers was used for verification. Conflicting ownership claims are retained in the field REMARKS, but these were not resolved. Informal verification of the attributes was done by visually comparing the final information with the source data or maps. Some sources provided current but incomplete information. Several sources provided ownership information with PLS reference, and should be considered accurate as of the time of addition to the database. Conservation management codes were set depending not on individual PLS quarter-quarter sections, but on the administrating entity. This generalization may provide a code inaccurate for a particular parcel, but will provide a reasonably accurate assessment of the type of management practiced. Some ownership may have been omitted if the quarter-quarter section was primarily surface water. If the source database provided acreage less than half of the quarter-quarter section's area, but this comprised all of the land, it would not be coded into the base layer. Visual checks with known lake boundaries was done to correct this, but should not be regarded as a complete correction. Informal review of data in the Otter Tail county area suggests a significant error rate in the Waterfowl Production Area (WPA) portion of the database.
Logical Consistency Data are topolocially correct using ARC/INFO 7.2.1. All polygons are closed and lines intersect where intended.
Completeness Ownership information is complete for state agencies as recorded in the Bureau of Real Estate Management database (1996). This includes county ownership without specific designation. State ownership from other sources is of varying completeness and vintage. Most federally owned lands are complete but smaller holdings are of older vintage, and may thus not reflect current ownership. Tribal ownership is complete for the state but does not include all federally owned lands held in trust or as reservation land. Privately managed lands are complete for over sixty counties. Difficulty of collecting information prevented this piece from being completed. Included are individuals, groups, or companies owning at least 1000 acres, The Nature Conservancy, and Conservation Reserve Program lands administered by the MN Department of Agriculture. DNR users should note that DNR interests are only represented if more than 50 percent of any given forty is in state land ownership.
Horizontal Positional Accuracy Source layer gapdipy2: Source township and range lines were tested by the USGS National Mapping Division's Mid-Continent Mapping Center in August of 1993 for two files: Anoka and Battle Lake. The following evaluation was submitted to LMIC on September 1, 1993 in a letter from Mapping Center Chief Merle E. Southern:The positional accuracy of the Minnesota LMIC PLSS data evaluated met most of our recently adopted acceptance/rejection criteria. Tests of three thirty-minute segments all showed standard errors for x and y to be 5-mils [0.005 inch] or less. Tracking test on two segments were generally acceptable -- one line was encountered that was 12-mils off. No deviations of more than 11-mils are allowed. Shaping of linework was acceptable. Lines internal to the sections were arbitrarily generated and should not be treated in any way as authoritative.
Vertical Positional Accuracy Source layer gapdipy2: Not Applicable
Lineage Attribute Lineage for source table ADM_MAJLNDPY2.DBF: Stewardship attributes were populated with collected information. Source information was added in one of three methods: a) Source information received as a database with a PLS description was joined to the base layer directly. If acreage was provided with the source data, it was compared to the base layer area to determine if at least half of the quarter-quarter section was accounted for. Attributes in the base layer were coded with information from the source database; b) Source information taken from printed maps was manually entered into a database template and joined to the base layer in the same manner as the databases received; c) Source information received as an Arc/INFO coverage was intersected with the 100k quadrangles. Each base layer quarter-quarter section was compared with the output to determine whether or not it was overlayed by the source information coverage. All quarter-quarter sections with at least half of their area covered by the source information coverage were coded with that ownership information. Quarter-quarter sections comprising more than one polygon were included in this process. Those polygons with less than half of the area covered by the source information coverage were not coded. In cases for which two or more sources claimed to be the primary owners of a quarter-quarter section, a decision was made as to which source would be coded in the attributes. Priority was given depending on the type of source information, in the order of the three methods listed above. If the conflicting sources were of the same source type, a decision was made with the DNR to determine which should be coded. Conflicting ownership is recorded in the field REMARKS. Specific source data and vintage: USFS, Chippewa National Forest:c,1991|USFS, Superior National Forest:c,1993; inholdings:b,1994|NPS, Voyageurs Nat. Park:c,1996; inholdings:b,1994|NPS, Grand Portage Nat. Monument:a,current|NPS, Pipestone Nat. Monument:a,current|USFWS:c,1993|USBLM:c,1983 with corrections:a,current|USBIA:b,1994|Tribal Lands and US-held Trust Lands:a,1997|MNDOT:c,1983|MNDMitaryAffairs:c,Camp Ripley 1997, all others 1983|MNDofCorrections:c,1983|MNDofAgriculture:c,1995|MNDNR:a,1996;Scientific and Natural Areas:c,1997;Counties:a,1996;small amount:b,1994|The Nature Conservancy:a and c,1997|Private Lands listed by county: Aitkin:b,1988|Anoka:b,1988|Becker:b,1995|Beltrami:b,1993|Benton:b,1997|Big Stone:b,1975|Brown:b,1976|Carlton:b,1997|Cass:b,1993|Clay:b,1997|Clearwater:b,1994|Cook:b,1996|Crow Wing:a,1997;b,1995|Cottonwood:b,1997|Dakota:b,1991|Dodge:b,1990|Douglas:b,1993|Goodhue:b,1996|Grant:b,1997|Houston:b,1991|Hubbard:b,1992|Isanti:b,1995|Itasca:a,1997|Kanabec:b,1995|Kittson:b,1995|Koochiching:b,1988;a,1996|Lake:a,1996|Lake of the Woods:a,1996|LeSueur:b,1980|Mahnomen:b,1976|Marshall:b,1990|Mille Lacs:b,1995|Morrison:b,1994|Mower:b,1993|Murray:b,1972|Nicollet:b,1997|Nobles:b,1997|Norman:b,1997|Olmsted:b,1995|Ottertail:b,1994|Pine:b,1997|Pennington:b,1997|Pipestone:b,1977|Polk:b,1997|Pope:b,1987|Red Lake:b,1997|Redwood:b,1997|Renville:b,1998|Rock:b,1977|Roseau:b,1977|St. Louis:a,1997|Sherburne:b,1997|Steele:b,1996|Swift:b,1988|Todd:b,1981|Traverse:b,1997|Wabasha:b,1994|Wadena:b,1977|Waseca:b,1997|Washington:b,1997|Wilkin:b,1997|Winona:b,1990|Wright:b,1996|County Set Asite Lands: Crow Wing:a,1996|Itasca:a,1996|St. Louis:a,1997. DNR staff subjected the data to a series of post-processes following the original data delivery from BRW. These included the following: 1) restructuring PLS attribute fields and domains to conform to internal DNR coding standards, 2) reassigining attribute codes of surface water bodies within the stat. bdy's of the Superior NF to be blank, 3) matching a version of the DNR land records (Apr, 1998) to the base data to add additional data that were not captured in the initial project. Additional matches ranged from approx. 30 to 280 addt'nl matches per 100k tile, 4) restructuring the data into an alternative design.
Source Scale Denominator Source layer gapdipy2: 100000
 
Section 3 Spatial Data Organization Information Top of full metadata Top of page
Native Data Set Environment ArcInfo 7.x
Geographic Reference for Tabular Data Not Applicable
Spatial Object Type vector
Vendor Specific Object Types polygon
Tiling Scheme county
 
Section 4 Spatial Reference Information Top of full metadata Top of page
Horizontal Coordinate Scheme UTM
Ellipsoid GRS1980
Horizontal Datum NAD83
Horizontal Units meters
Distance Resolution
Altitude Datum Not Applicable
Altitude Units Not Applicable
Depth Datum Not Applicable
Depth Units Not Applicable
Cell Width
Cell Height
Latitude Resolution
Longitude Resolution
UTM Zone Number 15
SPCS Zone Identifier
County Coordinate Zone Identifier
Coordinate Offsets or Adjustments Not Applicable
Map Projection Name Transverse Mercator
Map Projection Parameters Not Applicable
Other Coordinate System's Definition Not Applicable
 
Section 5 Entity and Attribute Information Top of full metadata Top of page
Entity and Attribute Overview Data Elements for Attribute Table ADM_MAJLNDPY2.DBF:

AGENCY: Administering agency code

AGEN_NAME: Administering entity long name

AREA_CODE: Area Code of Administering Agency Office

PHONE: Local phone number expressed as a real number

OWNER_FLAG: Identifies records of forties where the owner and administrator of the land unit is different. A principal example of this is state-owned tax forfeit lands, which are administered by the county governments within their jurisdictional boundaries

UNIT: Long name of administrative unit

UNIT_CODE: Numeric unit code provided by contributing agency. These values are not unique within this field

SUBUNIT: Not implemented

MGMT1: Management protection status code

CONFL_FLAG: A field to flag records with conflicting claims to majority ownership

REMARKS: Any remarks, such as conflicting claims, etc

OWNER: Major stewardship category

COUN: Two digit county code

Entity and Attribute Detailed Citation
Value Domain for Data Element AGENCY:
0 = Not classified under a major stewardship category
110 = U.S. Forest Service
120 = U.S. Park Service
130 = U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service
140 = Bureau of Indian Affairs
150 = U.S. Department of the Interior (Other)
160 = U.S. Army Corps of Engineers
170 = Bureau of Land Management
180 = Farmer's Home Administration
210 = Nett Lake Tribe
220 = Fond du Lac Tribe
230 = Grand Portage Tribe
240 = White Earth Tribe
250 = Red Lake Tribe
260 = Bois Fort Band
270 = Minnesota Chippewa Indians, other
310 = Department of Natural Resources (undifferentiated)
311 = DNR Division of Fish and Wildlife
312 = DNR Division of Enforcement
313 = DNR Division of Forestry
314 = DNR Division of Minerals
315 = DNR Division of Parks and Recreation
316 = DNR Division of Waters
317 = DNR Trails and Waterways Unit
330 = Department of Military Affairs
340 = Department of Corrections
350 = Department of Transportation
360 = Minnesota Department of Agriculture. Indicates lands that were enrolled in the Conservation Reserve Program (CRP) for the period ending in 1997.
400 = Undifferentiated Public Lands
500 = Undifferentiated Private Conservancy
600 = Undifferentiated Private Industrial
700 = Undifferentiated Private Non-Industrial
810 = County owned-Undifferentiated
811 = Tax-Forfeit county administration-undifferentiated (State owned)
812 = Tax-Forfeit county administration-State Forest Lands (State owned)
813 = Tax-Forfeit county administration-State Park Lands (State owned)
900 = Other private property-undifferentiated
999 = No administrative code assigned due to lack of information. This code is often assigned to lands that are known to be in federal ownership, but for which no administrating agency has been identifed.

Value Domain for Data Element AGEN_NAME:
A variety of long name conventions are used in this field = For most federal and state land this is the government agency name. For county lands, most are coded with a generic county name, but some contain a specific county agency. For privately administered lands, this is usually identical to UNIT. Tribal lands are coded with the Tribe, a generic identifier, or with Tribal affiliation for individual owners.

Value Domain for Data Element AREA_CODE:

Value Domain for Data Element PHONE:

Value Domain for Data Element OWNER_FLAG:
0 = Owner and administrator are the same
1 = Owner and administrator are different

Value Domain for Data Element UNIT:
Multiple Entries = Long name descriptions provided by the contributing agency

Value Domain for Data Element UNIT_CODE:
1 = Voyageurs National Park, U.S. Park Service
1 = Superior National Forest, U.S. Forest Service
1 = Prairie Island Reservation
100 = Other Trust Lands
100 = Agassiz National Wildlife Refuge, U.S. Fish and Wildlife
101 = Big Stone National Wildlife Refuge, U.S. Fish and Wildlife
102 = Crane Meadows National Wildlife Refuge, U.S. Fish and Wildlife
103 = Hamden Slough National Wildlife Refuge, U.S. Fish and Wildlife
104 = Minnesota Valley National Wildlife Refuge, U.S. Fish and Wildlife
105 = Rice Lake National Wildlife Refuge, U.S. Fish and Wildlife
106 = Rydell National Wildlife Refuge, U.S. Fish and Wildlife
107 = Sherburne National Wildlife Refuge, U.S. Fish and Wildlife
108 = Tamarack National Wildlife Refuge, U.S. Fish and Wildlife
109 = Upper Mississippi Fish and Wildlife Refuge, U.S. Fish and Wildlife
11 = Prior Lake Reservation, Bureau of Indian Affairs
12 = Nett Lake Reservation, Bureau of Indian Affairs
13 = Red Lake Reservation, Bureau of Indian Affairs
2 = Fond du Lac Reservation, Bureau of Indian Affairs
2 = Pipestone National Monument, U.S. Park Service
2 = Chippewa National Forest
2 = Pipestone National Monument
2 = Fond du Lac Reservation
2 = Chippewa National Forest, U.S. Forest Service
200 = Waterfowl Production Area, U.S. Fish and Wildlife
3 = Grand Portage Reservation, Bureau of Indian Affairs
3 = Grand Portage National Monument, U.S. Park Service
3 = Boundary Waters Canoe Area Wilderness, U.S. Forest Service
4 = Leech Lake Reservation, Bureau of Indian Affairs
5 = Mille Lacs Reservation, Bureau of Indian Affairs
6 = Sandy Lake Reservation, Bureau of Indian Affairs
7 = Upper and Lower Sioux Reservations, Bureau of Indian Affairs
8 = Vermilion Reservation, Bureau of Indian Affairs
9 = White Earth Reservation, Bureau of Indian Affairs
99 = Scientific and Natural Areas, U.S. Fish and Wildlife

Value Domain for Data Element SUBUNIT:

Value Domain for Data Element MGMT1:
1 = Areas managed to maintain a natural state and within which natural disturbance events are allowed to proceed without interference.
2 = Areas generally managed for natural values, but which may receive uses that degrade the quality of existing natural communities.
3 = Areas for which permanent land cover conversions from natural or semi-natural habitats to anthropogenic habitats are generally not permitted, but which may be subject to intensive uses such as commercial forestry.
4 = Areas managed for intensive human uses which result in permanent land cover conversions such as mining or agriculture.
7 = Areas managed for conservation in which no land cover conversion is permitted.
8 = Areas for which some type of conservation management is practiced, but permanent land cover conversion is not prohibited, such as Conservation Reserve Program lands.
9 = Areas not rated for conversion management status. This category is the default for private or tribal lands.

Value Domain for Data Element CONFL_FLAG:
0 = No conflicting claims of majority interest identified.
1 = Conflicting majority land interest claims identified during data compilation.

Value Domain for Data Element REMARKS:
COMB OWN = Two entities each share half of the quarter-quarter section. One listed is the source coded in the record, the other is the conflicting entity. Abbreviations and acronyms are used to list the entities.
CONFL OWN = Conflicting ownership between two or more entities. One listed is the source coded in the record, the other is the conflicting entity. Abbreviations and acronyms are used to list the entities. A number indicates the number of the county from which the information comes (see COUN, above, for details).
CRP = This code denotes land administered under the MN Department of Agriculture's Conservation Reserve Program.
DNR LAND_REC POST-PROC = Indicates that the record was coded during a post-processing step that may have resulted in slightly different long-name descriptions within the UNIT field (when compared with neighboring parcels within the same administrative unit)

Value Domain for Data Element OWNER:
0 = Not classified
127 = Federal
227 = Tribal
327 = State, including tax-forfeited lands under county stewardship
427 = Other Public
527 = Private Conservancy
627 = Private Industrial, more than 1000 acres owned within the affected county
727 = Private Non-Industrial Business or Trust, more than 1000 acres owned within the affected county
827 = County
927 = Other private property

Value Domain for Data Element COUN:
1 = Aitkin
2 = Anoka
3 = Becker
4 = Beltrami
5 = Benton
6 = Big Stone
7 = Blue Earth
8 = Brown
9 = Carlton
10 = Carver
11 = Cass
12 = Chippewa
13 = Chisago
14 = Clay
15 = Clearwater
16 = Cook
17 = Cottonwood
18 = Crow Wing
19 = Dakota
20 = Dodge
21 = Douglas
22 = Faribault
23 = Fillmore
24 = Freeborn
25 = Goodhue
26 = Grant
27 = Hennepin
28 = Houston
29 = Hubbard
30 = Isanti
31 = Itasca
32 = Jackson
33 = Kanabec
34 = Kandiyohi
35 = Kittson
36 = Koochiching
37 = Lac Qui Parle
38 = Lake
39 = Lake of the Woods
40 = Le Sueur
41 = Lincoln
42 = Lyon
43 = McLeod
44 = Mahnomen
45 = Marshall
46 = Martin
47 = Meeker
48 = Mille Lacs
49 = Morrison
50 = Mower
51 = Murray
52 = Nicollet
53 = Nobles
54 = Norman
55 = Olmsted
56 = Otter Tail
57 = Pennington
58 = Pine
59 = Pipestone
60 = Polk
61 = Pope
62 = Ramsey
63 = Red Lake
64 = Redwood
65 = Renville
66 = Rice
67 = Rock
68 = Roseau
69 = St. Louis
70 = Scott
71 = Sherburne
72 = Sibley
73 = Stearns
74 = Steele
75 = Stevens
76 = Swift
77 = Todd
78 = Traverse
79 = Wabasha
80 = Wadena
81 = Waseca
82 = Washington
83 = Watonwan
84 = Wilkin
85 = Winona
86 = Wright
87 = Yellow Medicine
0 or null = "doughnut hole" polygon (not in a native plant community)
 
Section 6 Distribution Information Top of full metadata Top of page
Publisher Minnesota DNR
Publication Date 1998-08-11 00:00:00.0
Contact Person Information Hal Watson
GIS Database Specialist
DNR-MIS
500 Lafayette Road, Box 11
St. Paul, MN 55155-4011
Phone: (651) 297-2330
FAX: (651) 297-4946
E-mail:
Distributor's Data Set Identifier adm_majlndpy2
Distribution Liability The Minnesota Department of Natural Resources makes no representation or warranties, express or implied, with respect to the reuse of data provided herewith, regardless of its format or the means of its transmission. There is no guarantee or representation to the user as to the accuracy, currency, suitability, or reliability of this data for any purpose. The user accepts the data 'as is', and assumes all risks associated with its use. By accepting this data, the user agrees not to transmit this data or provide access to it or any part of it to another party unless the user shall include with the data a copy of this disclaimer. The Minnesota Department of Natural Resources assumes no responsibility for actual or consequential damage incurred as a result of any user's reliance on this data.
Transfer Format Name Shapefile
Transfer Format Version Number Not Applicable
Transfer Size 171
Ordering Instructions See Online Linkage or Distribution Contact
Online Linkage http://deli.dnr.state.mn.us
 
Section 7 Metadata Reference Information Top of full metadata Top of page
Metadata Date 2005-01-19 15:26:04.0
Contact Person Information Robert Maki, GIS Data and Infrastructure Supervisor
DNR-MIS
500 Lafayette Road, Box 11
St. Paul, MN 55155-4011
Phone: (651) 297-2329
FAX: (651) 297-4946
E-mail:
Metadata Standard Name Minnesota Geographic Metadata Guidelines
Metadata Standard Version 1.2
Metadata Standard Online Linkage http://www.lmic.state.mn.us/gc/stds/metadata.htm



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