Section 1	Identification Information
Originator	Natural Resources Research Institute
Title	Great Lakes Ownership
Abstract	This data set describes the major land ownership for the Lake Superior Basin. It includes a breakdown of public ownership by agency, and also includes private industrial forest holdings.
Purpose	A base data layer.
Time Period of Content Date	1990
Currentness Reference	Middle range of publication dates for specified coverages.
Progress	Complete
Maintenance and Update Frequency	As needed
Spatial Extent of Data	All states and provinces withing the Lake Superior Drainage Basin including: Minnesota, Wisconsin, Michigan, and Ontario, Canada.
Bounding Coordinates	-97.293 -81.564 49.255 41.573
Place Keywords	Michigan, Minnesota, Wisconsin, all county names
Theme Keywords	None
Theme Keyword Thesaurus	None
Access Constraints	None
Use Constraints	None
Contact Person Information	Mark White, Research Fellow Natural Resources Research Institute 5013 Miller Trunk Hwy Duluth, Minnesota 55811 Phone: (218)-720-2710 FAX: (218)-720-4328 E-mail: mwhite@sage.nrri.umn.edu
Browse Graphic File Name	none available
Browse Graphic File Description
Associated Data Sets
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Attribute Accuracy	Contact Mark White, NRRI
Logical Consistency	Contact Mark White, NRRI
Completeness	Contact Mark White, NRRI
Horizontal Positional Accuracy	Contact Mark White, NRRI
Vertical Positional Accuracy	Not applicaple
Lineage	Michigan data for the UP is from two sources: Miris data and Industrial Forest Data of the UP of Michigan. Unfortunately there is little metadata on the Miris coverage. The Industrial Forest data is from the UPOWN coverage, developed by the Mead Corporation 1/24/95, of Escanaba Michigan. Ownership was captured for this cover from several scales: 1:24000, 1:63000, and 1:1000000. The Wisconsin land ownership data was digitized at NRRI from a map entitled Major Public Open Space and Forest Crop Law Lands, 1:500,000, published in 1974 by the Wisconsin Planning Agency under the Land Resources Analysis Program. The Minnesota land ownership data contains land ownership information for the entire state of Minnesota at 1:100,000 scale. Ownership reflects surface features only. Ownership may only be 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. Data for MN, WI, and MI were brought together and combined into one coverage. Data was then clipped with the 50 km lake superior basin boundary, and split into county coverages.
Source Scale Denominator	500000
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Native Data Set Environment	UNIX-ARC/INFO Ver. 7.1.2, Sun Solaris operating system
Geographic Reference for Tabular Data	None
Spatial Object Type	Vector
Vendor Specific Object Types	arc, line, polygon
Tiling Scheme	State
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Horizontal Coordinate Scheme	Geographic (Lat. Long.)
Ellipsoid	GRS80
Horizontal Datum	NAD83
Horizontal Units	Meters
Distance Resolution
Altitude Datum	Not applicable
Depth Datum	Not applicable
Map Projection Name	Albers Equal Area
Map Projection Parameters	Standard Parallel: 29.5 Standard Parallel: 45.5 Longitude Of Central Meridian: -96 Latitude Of Projection Origin: 23 False Easting: 0 False Northing: 0
Other Coordinate System's Definition	Planar Coordinate Encoding Method: Coordinate Pair Abscissa Resolution: 1 Ordinate Resolution: 1 Semi-Major Axis: 6378206.4 Denominator of Flattening Ratio: 294.98
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Entity and Attribute Overview	Entity and attribute information is mostly self-explanatory. lsb_class class_desc 0 Other Private/unclassified 2 County Park 3 County Forest 11 State Park 12 State Forest 13 State Fish&Wildlife 14 Other State 21 National Forest 22 National Park 23 National Wildlife Refuge 24 Wilderness Area 25 Bureau of Indian Affairs 26 Army Corps of Engineers 27 Other Federal 27 Other Federal 28 Bureau of Land Management 30 Tribal 41 Private Industrial Forest 42 Other Private/unclassified 43 Non-industrial Private Forest 50 Other Public lsb_class2 class2_des 1.0000 County 1.0000 County 10.0000 State 10.0000 State 10.0000 State 10.0000 State 20.0000 Federal 20.0000 Federal 20.0000 Federal 20.0000 Federal 20.0000 Federal 20.0000 Federal 20.0000 Federal 20.0000 Other Federal 20.0000 Federal 30.0000 Tribal 40.0000 Private/unclassified 40.0000 Private/unclassified 40.0000 Private/unclassified 50.00 Other public lsb_class3 class3_des 1.0000 County 1.0000 County 11.0000 State Park 12.0000 State Forest 13.0000 State Fish&Wildlife 14.0000 Other State 21.0000 National Forest 22.0000 National Park 23.0000 National Wildlife Refuge 21.0000 National Forest 24.0000 Other Federal 24.0000 Other Federal 24.0000 Other Federal 24.0000 Other Federal 24.0000 Other Federal 30.0000 Tribal 41.0000 Private Industrial Forest 42.0000 Other Private/unclassified 42.0000 Other Private/unclassified 50.0000 Other Public
Entity and Attribute Detailed Citation	None
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Publisher	Natural Resources Research Institute
Publication Date	Unpublished material
Contact Person Information	Gerald Sjerven, GIS Specialist Natural Resources Research Institute 5013 Miller Trunk Hwy Duluth, Minnesota 55811 Phone: (218)-720-4388 FAX: (218)-720-4328 E-mail: gsjerven@sage.nrri.umn.edu
Distributor's Data Set Identifier
Distribution Liability	No warranty expressed or implied is made regarding the accuracy or utility of the data on any other system or for general or scientific purposes, nor shall the act of distribution constitute any such warranty. This disclaimer applies both to individual use of the data and aggregate use with other data. It is strongly recommended that careful attention be paid to the contents of the metadata file associated with these data. The University of Minnesota shall not be held liable for improper or incorrect use of the data described and/or contained herein.
Transfer Format Name	ARC/Info export format
Transfer Format Version Number
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Ordering Instructions
Online Linkage	Click here to download data. (See Ordering Instructions above for details.) By clicking here, you agree to the notice in "Distribution Liability" above.
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Metadata Date	08/25/1999
Contact Person Information	Joel Nelson, GIS Intern Natural Resource Research Institute 5013 Miller Trunk Highway Duluth, Minnesota 55811 Phone: (218)-720-4254 FAX: (218)-720-4328 E-mail: jnelson@sage.nrri.umn.edu
Metadata Standard Name	Minnesota Geographic Metadata Guidelines
Metadata Standard Version	Datalogr 2.01
Metadata Standard Online Linkage	http://www.lmic.state.mn.us/gc/stds/metadata.htm

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