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Originator: Montana Natural Heritage Program
Publication_Date: 7/16/2001
Title: Land Ownership and Managed Areas of Montana
Online_Linkage: http://nris.state.mt.us/nsdi/nris/ab105/ownerse.html
Online_Linkage: http://nris.state.mt.us/nsdi/nris/ab105/ownerss.html
Description:
Abstract:
Montana public land ownership and management status, including
conservation easement data, special land-management designations,
and administrative units. The original source for much of this
data is 1:100,000 scale Bureau of Land Management (BLM) maps,
digitized by the Montana BLM office in 1996.
Purpose:
Planning Applications:
Land ownership and management information is essential for long- and
short-term land use planning. This data also provides a useful background
in many maps by helping to orient viewers.
Biological Applications:
To assess the conservation status of a species one must know (1) how
much of it there is (how many populations & individuals) and (2) how
secure or threatened those populations and individuals are.
The ownership and management status of the land is a large
determinant of how secure the habitat that supports a given
population may be. Private lands protected by conservation easements
are less likely to have activities that would threaten the population
than are unprotected private lands (activities like subdivision &
development; plowing; draining wetlands; mining; etc.) Similarly
public lands designated as wilderness or research natural areas
generally provide more secure habitat for species than do
undesignated lands.
Supplemental_Information:
This data set is a work in progress; it contains errors of omission
and errors in current attributes.
Time_Period_of_Content:
Beginning_Date: 1975
Ending_Date: 7/16/2001
Currentness_Reference: publication date
Status:
Progress: In work
Maintenance_and_Update_Frequency: Weekly
Use_Constraints:
Data are provided under the condition they are for internal use
within the requester's agency or organization only; and are not to be
distributed to second parties or the general public. Public release
of information may compromise landowner privacy. Persons wanting
additional information must contact the Montana Natural Heritage
Program directly.
This data set is provided "as-is" without warranty of any kind.
MTNHP makes no representations or warranties whatsoever with respect
to the accuracy or completeness of this data set and assumes no
responsibility for the suitability of this data set for a particular
purpose; and MTNHP will not be liable for any damages incurred as a
result of errors in this data set.
Attribute_Accuracy_Report:
Most attribute data is from the June 1998 version of the GAP Project
'stewardship' layer; there are many errors (estimate 1% of values
are wrong) due to processing; updates; omitted data.
Complete metadata for the stewardship layer is available at
http://nris.state.mt.us/nsdi/nris/stew_old.html
Completeness_Report:
The line-work is more complete than the attribute data; but the line-
work is incomplete due to data omitted from the June 1998 GAP Project
layer and changes (land transfers; new easements and special
designations) since June 1998.
Horizontal_Positional_Accuracy_Report:
This is basically 1:100,000 scale (100K) data with a horizontal
accuracy of approximately 170 feet. Originally from the Bureau
of Land Management (BLM) 100K Public Land Survey/Ownership maps
digitized circa 1995-1998. However much of the new data
(especially the conservation easement data and Montana Fish,
Wildlife & Parks data) is 1:24,000 (24K) data, with a horizontal
accuracy of approximately 40 feet. 24K data is incorporated into
the 100K matrix by editing the 100K linework to fit the 24K
linework whenever possible.
Lineage:
Source_Information:
Originator:
Wildlife Spatial Analysis Lab
Publication_Date: 6/30/1998
Title: Montana Gap Stewardship
Publication_Information:
Publication_Place: Missoula
Publisher: Wildlife Spatial Analysis Laboratory
Source_Scale_Denominator: 100000
Type_of_Source_Media: digital
Source_Time_Period_of_Content:
Calendar_Date: 6/30/1998
Source_Currentness_Reference: calendar date
Source_Citation_Abbreviation: GAP9806
Source_Contribution:
The current layer is an edited and reformatted version of GAP9806.
Source_Information:
Originator: Bureau of Land Management
Publication_Date: 12/10/1996
Title: 1:100000 surface management status
Publication_Information:
Publication_Place: Billings
Publisher: Montana Bureau of Land Management
Source_Scale_Denominator: 100000
Type_of_Source_Media: mylar
Source_Time_Period_of_Content:
Calendar_Date: 1975
Calendar_Date: 12/10/1996
Source_Currentness_Reference: calendar date
Source_Citation_Abbreviation: BLM9806
Source_Contribution:
Surface management series maps provided the base layer for
stewardship mapping; later digital updates (most recently
March 1999) used to edit data in GAP9806. (NOTE: GAP9806
is based on a December 1996 edition of the BLM data.)
Process_Step:
Process_Description:
Changed the original (GAP9806) attributes by deleting all and
replacing with OWN; EASE; LEASE; WITHDRAW; DESIG; ADMIN; NOTES;
ACRES. Used reselects on OWNER/MANAGER from the GAP9806 data to
populate the new fields.
Process_Date: November, 1998
Process_Step:
Process_Description:
Made edits by 250K map tiles based on BLM9806 and on review of
card files for state trust lands at DNRC. (edited tiles: 48104
48106 46112 47112 48108 48110 47114 48114 )
Process_Date: January, 1999
Process_Step:
Process_Description:
Various edits in western Montana based on recent BLM land
exchanges (Devils Elbow; Blackfoot River) using tabular BLM
data and updated Canyon Ferry area based on new BLM map.
Process_Date: February, 1999
Process_Step:
Process_Description:
Made edits to the Ovando valley; Mission Valley; Medicine Lake
Wetlands Management District; mostly to incorporate USFWS
easement data but also including other ownership/management
data supplied by USFWS personnel.
Process_Date: April, 1999
Process_Step:
Process_Description:
Completed integrating DFWP data for lands owned; leased
or under easement by the department. This is mostly COGO data
received from NRIS April 2000. Arcs are incorporated unchanged
when there are no or few existing & conflicting arcs in 'stew'
(existing arcs are moved to align with the DFWP data.) When
there are many conflicting arcs; the DFWP parcels are added
using or based on the existing 100K data.
Process_Date: February, 2001
Process_Step:
Process_Description:
The Plum Creek Timber Company ownership data was updated
based on a data set received from them, dated 1/20/2001.
Process_Date: May, 2001
Process_Step:
Process_Description:
The original GAP 9806 data had a number of polygons with no ownership
data, mostly along the southern boundary of the Fort Peck Indian
Reservation. These were either eliminated or coded based on
information in a 1:100,000 scale ownership data set provided by the
Bureau of Land Management or by simply extending existing arcs to
intersect the current reservation boundary or Missouri River arcs.
Ownership for polygons with ID = "?" is really just a guess and data
quality in such areas generally should be considered poor.
Process_Date: May, 2001
Process_Step:
Process_Description:
Conservation easement data was entered and/or checked and coded
with ID numbers supplied by the individual land trusts for all
easements through Year 2000 for the following land trusts:
Flathead Land Trust, Five Valleys Land Trust, Montana Land Reliance,
Rocky Mountain Elk Foundation, The Nature Conservancy.
Process_Date: June, 2001
Direct_Spatial_Reference_Method: Vector
Point_and_Vector_Object_Information
Number of Arcs: 77483
Number of Polygons: 47051
Horizontal_Coordinate_System_Definition
Grid_Coordinate_System_Name: State Plane Coordinate System
SPCS_Zone_Identifier: 2500
Map_Projection_Name: Lambert Conformal Conic
Standard_Parallel: 45
Standard_Parallel: 49
Longitude_of_Central_Meridian: -109.5
Latitude_of_Projection_Origin: 44.25
False_Easting: 600000
False_Northing: 0
Planar_Distance_Units: meters
Geodetic_Model
Horizontal_Datum_Name: North American Datum of 1983
Overview_Description:
Entity_and_Attribute_Overview:
OWN - Code for who owns the land.
0 = Fort Peck Reservation area data mis-match area
10 = undifferentiated Federal
11 = U.S. Bureau of Land Management
12 = U.S. Bureau of Reclamation
13 = U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service
14 = National Park Service
15 = U.S. Forest Service
16 = U.S. Dept of Agriculture research stations
17 = U.S. Army Corps of Engineers
18 = U.S. Dept of Defense
19 = other Federal
20 = undifferentiated State
21 = Montana State trust lands - DNRC
22 = Montana Fish, Wildlife, and Parks
23 = Montana University system
24 = Montana Institutions (prisons, hospitals)
25 = Montana Dept of Transportation
30 = undifferentiated Local Government
31 = County
32 = City
40 = undifferentiated Bureau of Indian Affairs trust
41 = Blackfeet Tribal lands
42 = Crow Tribal lands
43 = Flathead Tribal lands
44 = Fort Belknap Tribal lands
45 = Fort Peck Tribal lands
46 = Northern Cheyenne Tribal lands
47 = Rocky Boys Tribal lands
50 = undifferentiated private lands
52 = Plum Creek Timber lands
60 = undifferentiated Private Conservation lands
61 = The Nature Conservancy
62 = Montana Land Reliance
63 = Rocky Mountain Elk Foundation
64 = Ducks Unlimited
65 = Boone & Crockett Club
66 = Five Valleys Land Trust
67 = Flathead Land Trust
68 = Gallatin Valley Land Trust
69 = Prickly Pear Land Trust
88 = water
EASE - Code for agency with a conservation easement on the land
(same values as the codes for OWN)
LEASE - Code for agency which is leasing the land.
(same values as the codes for OWN)
DESIG - contains acronyms for any special designation that includes the parcel
This field is incompletely coded
WILD = Wilderness
NFH = National Fish Hatchery
NHS = National Historic site
NM = National Monument/Battlefield
NP = National Park
NRA = National Recreation Area
NWR = National Wildlife Refuge
WSR = Wild & Scenic River
Horse = Wild Horse Range
PRIM = Primitive Area
ExpFor = Experimental Forest
ACEC = Area of Critical Environmental Concern
ONA = Outstanding Natural Area
RNA = Research Natural Area
SIA = Special Interest Area
WPA = Waterfowl Production Area
FAS/FAA = State Fishing Access Site or Area
SP = State Parks Area
GP = State Game Preserve (permanent hunting closure)
WMA = State Wildlife Management Area
TWILD = Tribal wilderness
TPRIM = Tribal primitive
TBUFF = Tribal buffer area
Distribution_Liability:
The user of this data set agrees to release The Montana Natural
Heritage Program, its officers, directors, agents, employees, and
those acting on its behalf from all debts, claims, and liability of
any kind arising out of or in connection with the use of the data.
Features shown on this map do not imply public access to any lands.
Information on this map is frequently updated or changed. This map
is valid for a maximum of six months after the issue date shown.
The land status data displayed on this map are likely incomplete
and contain errors in boundary locations and/or coding. MTNHP
makes no representations or warranties whatsoever with respect to
the accuracy or completeness of the data contained in these maps
and assumes no responsibility for the suitability of this data for
a particular purpose; and MTNHP will not be liable for any damages
incurred as a result of errors displayed here.
Metadata_Date: 7/16/2001
Metadata_Contact: Cedron Jones
Contact_Organization: Montana Natural Heritage Program
Contact_Position: Mapping/GIS Specialist
Address: PO BOX 201800
City: Helena
State_or_Province: MT
Postal_Code: 59620-1800
Contact_Voice_Telephone: (406) 444-2817
Contact_Electronic_Mail_Address: cjones@state.mt.us