U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service
Region 4, Southeast
Produced by U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service Ecological Service Field Office
Lafayette, Louisiana
This project was initiated by the Ecological Services office in Lafayette, Louisiana to develop digital data sets that could be used in fish and wildlife resource planning by the Service and other agencies. Digital data sets already existed for permanently protected State and Federal lands in Louisiana, such as wildlife management areas and national wildlife refuges, however, there was no digital data available for non-federal protected lands.
All of the datasets developed for this project contain locations of private lands that are protected through a Federal sponsorship program with the exception of certain Farmers Home Administration (FmHA) lands which can be under private or State/Federal ownership (see below). These data sets will be used in landscape planning to identify priority forested wetland restoration sites in Louisiana that would benefit recovery of the Louisiana black bear and area-sensitive neotropical migratory songbirds, and future wetland restoration projects and habitat management areas throughout the state.
Four types of protected lands in Louisiana were digitized: USFWS Partners for Wildlife projects, Natural Resource Conservation Service's Wetland Reserve Program sites, Wetland Mitigation Banks, and FmHA sites. At the locations below, metadata can be viewed immediately; metadata and data in the Arc/Export format can also be downloaded. All of the Arc/Export data has been compressed using Pkzip.
If you do not have a copy of the Pkunzip utility you can download a self-extracting copy of the utility by clicking here . Just type pkzipdoc and it will uncompress. To get a list of the command parameters just type pkunzip without any other commands, and you will get a simple list. Basic unzipping syntax is pkunzip filename.
A boundary file for Louisiana is available. It was created by selecting for state_name contains 'Louisiana' from the ESRI ARCUSA 1:2Million st2m database, projecting from albers to UTM 15, and then reselecting out area greater than 300,000,000 to get just 1outline polygon. This polygon is included only for reference purposes, to enable you to see where in the state the quads and lands are located; the scale and accuracy are much less precise than the boundary information. To download the state coverage click here .
The quad coverages that are included, also for reference, were created at the Mid-Continent Ecological Center (MESC) by running an aml in Arc/Info. This aml creates a single quad coverage based on typing in the Lat/Long corners of a quad. The individual quad coverages were later mapjoined to create the 4 layers referenced in the datasets.
Farmers Home Administration Properties
For additional information regarding this Web page, contact David Soileau, in the Lafayette, LA Ecological Services Field Office, at David_Soileau@fws.gov.
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Last Modified August 9, 2004