Vegetation - Ciervo Panoche Northwest [ds3126]

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Ciervo Panoche Northwest, Bureau of Land Management, BLM, California Department of Fish and Wildlife, CDFW, Ciervo-Panoche Natural Area, CPNA, National Vegetation Classification Standard, NVCS, Vegetation Classification and Mapping Program, VegCAMP, California Native Plant Society, CNPS, The Nature Conservancy, San Luis Obispo County


Summary

California Native Plant Society (CNPS) has initiated a project with partners at the Bureau of Land Management (BLM) and The Nature Conservancy (TNC) to create a detailed vegetation map in the northwestern portion of the CiervoPanoche Natural Area (CPNA). The classification is fully compatible with the National Vegetation Classification System (NVCS) (FGDC 2008) and the Manual of California Vegetation (Sawyer et al. 2009), which CNPS and CDFW jointly maintain.

Description

California Native Plant Society (CNPS) has initiated a project with partners at the Bureau of Land Management (BLM) and The Nature Conservancy (TNC) to create a detailed vegetation map in the northwestern portion of the CiervoPanoche Natural Area (CPNA). The classification is fully compatible with the National Vegetation Classification System (NVCS) (FGDC 2008) and the Manual of California Vegetation (Sawyer et al. 2009), which CNPS and CDFW jointly maintain.

Phase 1 of the project includes detailed vegetation mapping in the northwestern portion of the CiervoPanoche Natural Area (CPNA). The project objectives during Phase 1 have included vegetation field sampling and vegetation mapping (photointerpretation, delineation, and attribution) in the northwestern CPNA. The vegetation map was based upon onemeter resolution NAIP imagery taken in the summer of 2012. The minimum mapping unit (MMU) was 1 acre, with exceptions for wetland and other special types (0.5 acre MMU).

In March 2015, CNPS staff conducted 189 field validation surveys across 192 preselected polygons. From this data, users' and producers' accuracy was estimated. Producers accuracy across all types with a sample size of 3 or more was 81%, while the users accuracy of types with a sample size of 3 or more was 86%, meeting state standards for accuracy. Producer and user accuracy was slightly lower across all types regardless of sample size (i.e., 77% and 81% respectively), though several types had only one sample.

More information can be found in the project reports, which are bundled with the vegetation map published for BIOS here: https://filelib.wildlife.ca.gov/Public/BDB/GIS/BIOS/Public_Datasets/3100_3199/ds3126.zip .

Credits

This map was created by the California Native Plant Society (CNPS) in partnership with the Bureau of Land Management (BLM) and The Nature Conservancy (TNC). It was prepared for publication in BIOS by the California Department of Fish and Wildlifes (CDFW) Vegetation Classification and Mapping Program (VegCAMP).

Use limitations

CDFWs VegCAMP appreciates learning how these vegetation datasets are being used so that we can leverage support for classifying and mapping new areas and let users know of any updates. Please contact us at VegCAMP@wildlife.ca.gov or call any of the staff listed here: https://wildlife.ca.gov/Data/VegCAMP .

License: This work is licensed under Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License ( https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ ). Using the citation standards recommended for BIOS datasets ( https://www.wildlife.ca.gov/Data/BIOS/Citing-BIOS ) satisfies the attribution requirements of this license.

Disclaimer: The State makes no claims, promises, or guarantees about the accuracy, completeness, reliability, or adequacy of these data and expressly disclaims liability for errors and omissions in these data. No warranty of any kind, implied, expressed, or statutory, including but not limited to the warranties of non-infringement of third party rights, title, merchantability, fitness for a particular purpose, and freedom from computer virus, is given with respect to these data.

Extent

West -120.953849 East -120.709876
North 36.816681 South 36.550634

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Minimum (zoomed out) 1:500,000

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Themes or categories of the resource biota, environment, imageryBaseMapsEarthCover


* Content type Downloadable Data
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Place keywords Ciervo-Panoche Natural Area, CPNA, San Luis Obispo County, California

Theme keywords Ciervo Panoche Northwest, Bureau of Land Management, BLM, California Department of Fish and Wildlife, CDFW, National Vegetation Classification Standard, NVCS, Vegetation Classification and Mapping Program, VegCAMP, California Native Plant Society, CNPS, The Nature Conservancy

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Citation

Title Vegetation - Ciervo Panoche Northwest [ds3126]
Publication date 2024-12-0600:00:00


Presentation formats * digital map


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Responsible party
Individual's name Michael Westphal
Organization's name Bureau of Land Management
Contact's position Ecologist
Contact's role owner


Contact information
Phone
Voice 831-630-5023

Address
Type
e-mail address mwestpha@blm.gov

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Responsible party
Individual's name Jennifer Buck-Diaz
Organization's name California Native Plant Society
Contact's position Vegetation Ecologist
Contact's role originator


Contact information


Responsible party
Individual's name VegCAMP (Vegetation Classification and Mapping Program)
Organization's name California Department of Fish and Wildlife
Contact's position VegCAMP Program Lead
Contact's role point of contact


Contact information
Address
Type postal
Delivery point PO Box 944209
City Sacramento
Administrative area California
Postal code 94244-2090
Country US
e-mail address VegCAMP@wildlife.ca.gov

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Responsible party
Individual's name Kelsea MacDonald
Organization's name California Department of Fish and Wildlife
Contact's position Ecological Data Curator
Contact's role processor


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Dataset languages * English(UNITED STATES)
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Status completed
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Supplemental information
Rarity Ranking: Rarity ranks for various types in this map have been updated utilizing the NatureServe Conservation Status Assessments Rank Calculator Version 3.186, and are current as of August 2024 . Rarity ranks are subject to change due to changing threats and trends and as ranking methodologies are further refined. Please check CDFWs Natural Communities page for the most up-to-date rarity ranks (https://www.wildlife.ca.gov/Data/VegCAMP/Natural-Communities). References: California Native Plant Society (CNPS) Vegetation Program. 2015. Vegetation Mapping for Wildlife Habitat, Conservation Planning and Land Management Analysis in the Central Coast Region and including the Ciervo Panoche Natural Area. https://nrm.dfg.ca.gov/FileHandler.ashx?DocumentID=227652 J. Buck-Diaz, K. Sikes, S. Vu, A. LaFever-Jackson & J.M. Evens. 2023. Vegetation Sampling, Classification, and Mapping Report for the inner Central Coast Ranges of California, including Ciervo-Panoche Natural Area and the Hubbard Hill Unit. Final Report prepared for the U.S. Bureau of Land Management. California Native Plant Society, Vegetation Program, Sacramento, CA. https://nrm.dfg.ca.gov/FileHandler.ashx?DocumentID=220225
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Credits
This map was created by the California Native Plant Society (CNPS) in partnership with the Bureau of Land Management (BLM) and The Nature Conservancy (TNC). It was prepared for publication in BIOS by the California Department of Fish and Wildlifes (CDFW) Vegetation Classification and Mapping Program (VegCAMP).
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Individual's name VegCAMP (Vegetation Classification and Mapping Program)
Organization's name California Department of Fish and Wildlife
Contact's position VegCAMP Program Lead
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City Sacramento
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Limitations of use

CDFWs VegCAMP appreciates learning how these vegetation datasets are being used so that we can leverage support for classifying and mapping new areas and let users know of any updates. Please contact us at VegCAMP@wildlife.ca.gov or call any of the staff listed here: https://wildlife.ca.gov/Data/VegCAMP .

License: This work is licensed under Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License ( https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ ). Using the citation standards recommended for BIOS datasets ( https://www.wildlife.ca.gov/Data/BIOS/Citing-BIOS ) satisfies the attribution requirements of this license.

Disclaimer: The State makes no claims, promises, or guarantees about the accuracy, completeness, reliability, or adequacy of these data and expressly disclaims liability for errors and omissions in these data. No warranty of any kind, implied, expressed, or statutory, including but not limited to the warranties of non-infringement of third party rights, title, merchantability, fitness for a particular purpose, and freedom from computer virus, is given with respect to these data.


Limitations of use

Study area boundary: The study area covers approximately 85,000 acres and encompasses the northwestern portion of the Ciervo-Panoche Natural Area (CPNA).

Minimum Mapping Unit (MMU): The minimum mapping unit (MMU) was 1 acre, with exceptions for wetland and other special types (0.5 acre MMU).


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Internal feature number.
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Sequential unique whole numbers that are automatically generated.


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Positive real numbers that are automatically generated.


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The standardized name of the vegetation description used in the Manual of California Vegetation (https://vegetation.cnps.org/). human land use or otherwise unvegetated land descriptions may be drawn from the California Wildlife Habitat Relationships (CWHR).
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The code for a vegetation association, alliance, group, unvegetated type, or land use for polygons that are not natural vegetation
Description source
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Description source
J. Buck-Diaz, K. Sikes, S. Vu, A. LaFever-Jackson & J.M. Evens. 2023.
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Description source
CNPS/BLM/TNC. 2014. Ciervo Panoche Natural Area Vegetation Map Attributes. Internal report: unpublished.
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Absolute percent cover of shrubs in 1% increments, based on birds-eye view (what an interpreter can see from the sky looking down).
Description source
CNPS/BLM/TNC. 2014. Ciervo Panoche Natural Area Vegetation Map Attributes. Internal report: unpublished.
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Absolute percent cover of herbs in 1% increments, based on birds-eye view (what an interpreter can see from the sky looking down).
Description source
CNPS/BLM/TNC. 2014. Ciervo Panoche Natural Area Vegetation Map Attributes. Internal report: unpublished.
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Level of impact by exotic or invasive species.
Description source
CNPS/BLM/TNC. 2014. Ciervo Panoche Natural Area Vegetation Map Attributes. Internal report: unpublished.
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Level of impact by paved and unpaved roads or hiking (human) trails. Impact is defined by proportion of any polygon of vegetation that is roadless. This has the advantage of helping to identify roadless areasbut the disadvantage of being scale independent. A polygon with a road more or less bisecting it will have a rating of Medium, regardless of size; a very large polygon with this rating might still contain a big roadless area.
Description source
CNPS/BLM/TNC. 2014. Ciervo Panoche Natural Area Vegetation Map Attributes. Internal report: unpublished.
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Description source
CNPS/BLM/TNC. 2014. Ciervo Panoche Natural Area Vegetation Map Attributes. Internal report: unpublished.
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Lists the level of impact for the Other Impact Type.
Description source
CNPS/BLM/TNC. 2014. Ciervo Panoche Natural Area Vegetation Map Attributes. Internal report: unpublished.
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Attribute identifies what type of field data (if any were available) supported the vegetation type decision for that polygon. Some of the stands were assessed from a distance using a compass, laser rangefinder or binoculars. For reconnaissance, multiple stands were often assessed from a single location.
Description source
CNPS/BLM/TNC. 2014. Ciervo Panoche Natural Area Vegetation Map Attributes. Internal report: unpublished.
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If a data point was used to help identify the vegetation in a polygon, its database id is included in this field.
Description source
CNPS/BLM/TNC. 2014. Ciervo Panoche Natural Area Vegetation Map Attributes. Internal report: unpublished.
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Open text field for any comments that the mapper might have. Field Check indicates that it would be beneficial to make a field check of the polygon.
Description source
CNPS/BLM/TNC. 2014. Ciervo Panoche Natural Area Vegetation Map Attributes. Internal report: unpublished.
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Description source
CNPS/BLM/TNC. 2014. Ciervo Panoche Natural Area Vegetation Map Attributes. Internal report: unpublished.
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Description source
CNPS/BLM/TNC. 2014. Ciervo Panoche Natural Area Vegetation Map Attributes. Internal report: unpublished.
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Description source
CNPS/BLM/TNC. 2014. Ciervo Panoche Natural Area Vegetation Map Attributes. Internal report: unpublished.
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Absolute percent cover of hardwoods in 1% increments, based on birds-eye view (what an interpreter can see from the sky looking down).
Description source
CNPS/BLM/TNC. 2014. Ciervo Panoche Natural Area Vegetation Map Attributes. Internal report: unpublished.
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Description source
CNPS/BLM/TNC. 2014. Ciervo Panoche Natural Area Vegetation Map Attributes. Internal report: unpublished.
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Prescence/Absence of Hesperoyucca whipplei which is an important habitat for lizards in the Panoche region. (e.g. for at least 2% or more of cover).
Description source
CNPS/BLM/TNC. 2014. Ciervo Panoche Natural Area Vegetation Map Attributes. Internal report: unpublished.
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The number assigned to each polygon delineated within the mapping area, which does not change with GIS processing.
Description source
CNPS/BLM/TNC. 2014. Ciervo Panoche Natural Area Vegetation Map Attributes. Internal report: unpublished.
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Description source
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Description source
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Description source
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Description source
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The global rarity ranking of the plant community mapped (ranks are available for all California alliances, and some associations). Ranks are based on a set of criteria including the rarity of the community (extent and occupancy), the threats that the community is subject to, and any known trends in the quality, size, or quantity of stands within the state. Ranks go from G1 which is critically imperiled/has very few occurrences to G5, when a community is demonstrably secure due to broad distribution with area not subject to threats. Ranks G1-G3 are considered sensitive. See: http://www.natureserve.org/sites/default/files/publications/files/natureserveconservationstatusmethodology_jun12_0.pdf and https://wildlife.ca.gov/Data/VegCAMP/Natural-Communities Ranks are current as of the publication date or update date.
Description source
http://www.natureserve.org/sites/default/files/publications/files/natureserveconservationstatusmethodology_jun12_0.pdf and https://wildlife.ca.gov/Data/VegCAMP/Natural-Communities
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The state rarity ranking of the plant community mapped (ranks are available for all California alliances, and some associations). Ranks are based on a set of criteria including the rarity of the community (extent and occupancy), the threats that the community is subject to, and any known trends in the quality, size, or quantity of stands within the state. Ranks go from S1 which is critically imperiled/has very few occurrences to S5, when a community is demonstrably secure due to security globally. Ranks S1-S3 are considered sensitive. See: http://www.natureserve.org/sites/default/files/publications/files/natureserveconservationstatusmethodology_jun12_0.pdf and https://wildlife.ca.gov/Data/VegCAMP/Natural-Communities Ranks are current as of the publication date or update date.
Description source
http://www.natureserve.org/sites/default/files/publications/files/natureserveconservationstatusmethodology_jun12_0.pdf and https://wildlife.ca.gov/Data/VegCAMP/Natural-Communities
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Description source
https://www.wildlife.ca.gov/Data/VegCAMP/Natural-Communities/Background
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The Sensitive Flag is a field where exceptions to what is in the ranking for an alliance or a determination for a group based on alliances are captured. For example, an alliance might be ranked as G4/S4, because it is broadly distributed in the state and covers a considerable area. However, every association within that alliance is considered sensitive because it isn't broadly distributed or is locally threatened. Such an alliance would have Sensitive = Y because everywhere the alliance is represented the association community is sensitive. States for this field include: "AllAssocOfAlliance" (described above); "AllAllianceOfGroup" (similar to AllAssocOfAlliance but used when all the alliances in the group are ranked as sensitive); "AllAssocOfMapClass" (used when the map only contains a subset of associations known in the state and all of these are sensitive); "SecondryFromSplit" (this can occur when the alliance or other community/level which was mapped was subsequently split into multiple, both sides of the split are known to be present in the map, the primary is not sensitive but the less common community/level from the split is sensitive); and "AllAssocFromRegion" (when it is known that only a subset of associations from alliance exist within the ecoregion that the map is in and all these are sensitive).
Description source
https://vegetation.cnps.org/
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Field CaCode
* Alias CaCode
* Data type String
* Width 255
* Precision 0
* Scale 0
Field description
California Natural Community Codes - unique code assigned to alliances and associations.
Description source
https://www.wildlife.ca.gov/Data/VegCAMP/Natural-Communities
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Field MCVAlliance
* Alias MCVAlliance
* Data type String
* Width 255
* Precision 0
* Scale 0
Field description
The standardized name for the alliance within the National Vegetation Classification System as interpreted in the Manual of California Vegetation.
Description source
https://vegetation.cnps.org/
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Field MCVGroup
* Alias MCVGroup
* Data type String
* Width 255
* Precision 0
* Scale 0
Field description
The standardized name for the group within the National Vegetation Classification System, with some potential exceptions within the Manual of California Vegetation Database.
Description source
https://vegetation.cnps.org/
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Field MCVMacrogroup
* Alias MCVMacrogroup
* Data type String
* Width 255
* Precision 0
* Scale 0
Field description
The standardized name for the macrogroup within the National Vegetation Classification System, with some potential exceptions within the Manual of California Vegetation Database.
Description source
https://vegetation.cnps.org/
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Field SecondCaCode
* Alias SecondCaCode
* Data type String
* Width 255
* Precision 0
* Scale 0
Field description
The secondary California Code of the Alliance or Association, typically when original community was split and both communities could exist in map.
Description source
https://www.wildlife.ca.gov/Data/VegCAMP/Natural-Communities
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Field CommunityLink
* Alias CommunityLink
* Data type String
* Width 255
* Precision 0
* Scale 0
Field description
The link to the alliance in the Manual of California Vegetation Online.
Description source
https://vegetation.cnps.org/
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Field ACRES
* Alias ACRES
* Data type Double
* Width 8
* Precision 0
* Scale 0
Field description
GIS Calculated acres based on calculation done in California (Teale) Albers, NAD83
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Field HECTARES
* Alias HECTARES
* Data type Double
* Width 8
* Precision 0
* Scale 0
Field description
GIS Calculated hectares based on calculation done in California (Teale) Albers, NAD83
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Metadata Details

* Metadata language English(UNITED STATES)
Metadata character set utf8 - 8 bit UCS Transfer Format


Scope of the data described by the metadata * dataset
Scope name * dataset


* Last update 2024-12-06


ArcGIS metadata properties
Metadata format ArcGIS1.0
Standard or profile used to edit metadata FGDC


Created in ArcGIS for the item 2024-12-0614:06:06
Last modified in ArcGIS for the item 2024-12-0614:05:52


Automatic updates
Have been performed Yes
Last update 2024-12-0614:05:52


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Metadata Contacts

Metadata contact
Individual's name VegCAMP (Vegetation Classification and Mapping Program)
Organization's name California Department of Fish and Wildlife
Contact's position VegCAMP Program Lead
Contact's role point of contact


Contact information
Address
Type postal
Delivery point PO Box 944209
City Sacramento
Administrative area California
Postal code 94244-2090
Country US
e-mail address VegCAMP@wildlife.ca.gov

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Metadata Maintenance

Maintenance
Update frequency as needed


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Metadata Constraints

Constraints
Limitations of use

CDFWs VegCAMP appreciates learning how these vegetation datasets are being used so that we can leverage support for classifying and mapping new areas and let users know of any updates. Please contact us at VegCAMP@wildlife.ca.gov or call any of the staff listed here: https://wildlife.ca.gov/Data/VegCAMP

License: This work is licensed under Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License ( https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ ). Using the citation standards recommended for BIOS datasets ( https://www.wildlife.ca.gov/Data/BIOS/Citing-BIOS ) satisfies the attribution requirements of this license.

Disclaimer: The State makes no claims, promises, or guarantees about the accuracy, completeness, reliability, or adequacy of these data and expressly disclaims liability for errors and omissions in these data. No warranty of any kind, implied, expressed, or statutory, including but not limited to the warranties of non-infringement of third party rights, title, merchantability, fitness for a particular purpose, and freedom from computer virus, is given with respect to these data.


Limitations of use

Minimum Mapping Unit (MMU): The minimum mapping unit (MMU) was 1 acre, with exceptions for wetland and other special types (0.5 acre MMU).


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