The Fish and Wildlife Research Institute serves a variety of terrestrial related data through our Terrestrial Resources Geographic Information System (TRGIS) Internet Map Server (IMS). This page provides a short description of each layer with links to Federal Geographic Data Clearinghouse (FGDC) compliant metadata and zipped files for download. The datum for all files is NAD83, using a customized Albers projection, in meters.
This file was last updated October, 2008.
The zipped shapefiles provided below can be uncompressed using shareware programs Winzip or IZArc.ArcExplorer, a lightweight GIS data viewer, can be used to view these shapefiles. A free copy of ArcExplorer may be downloaded from the ESRI Web site.
Many GIS data layers from the Center For Spatial Analysis have been converted to Google Earth files for easy viewing within the free Google Earth viewer. Google Earth requires an Internet connection. In order to view these files.you must have Google Earth installed on the computer you are using. If you do not have Google Earth, you can download it from the Google Earth web site. Google Earth requires an Internet connection, so if you do not have one, you will not be able to view these files. If you do and Google Earth is installed on your computer, you can simply click on the highlighted links below and choose "open" or "save" when you are prompted.
Critical Wildlife Areas
(1) Critical wildlife areas may be established by the Commission with prior concurrence in such designation by the owner of the property wherein the area is situated. All areas shall be described in the order with sufficient specificity as to permit identification and shall be posted by the Commission so as to provide due notice as to the identity and status of the area. The order establishing the critical wildlife area shall contain the dates during which the tract shall be accorded maximum protection from human or vehicular disturbance. (2) No person shall take or disturb any wildlife within any critical wildlife area during the period designated by the order establishing such area. No person shall enter or operate a vehicle within any critical wildlife area during any period in which public access is prohibited by the order establishing such area. No person shall knowingly allow a dog under their care to enter or remain upon a critical wildlife area during any period in which public access is prohibited by the order establishing such area.
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Florida Wildlife Management Areas
This GIS data set represents the 2007-2008 Wildlife Management Areas administered by the Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission (FWC), and other associated public use areas. These data are intended as a general reference map only. More information on activities permitted in individual areas can be found from the links on
FWC's Web site.
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FWC Wildlife Observations
This is a point shapefile created from the qryLipExport2 query of the FWC WildObs database. The WildObs database provides a standardized format for recording and managing incidental, casual, or short-term systematic observations of wildlife. Various information on geographic location, species (number, age, sex, etc.), habitat and activities can be recorded on wildlife observation forms using Microsoft Access 2000. Suggested target species and groups vary with the seasons. This system is defined to be useful to biologists to maintain species lists or to track wildlife populations in protected or managed areas. The Nongame Wildlife program is interested in maintaining current records of species distributions within Florida. This database is used as a repository for both data from planned surveys, contracted projects, and casual observations. The manual, available from the contact, provides details of each table and field of the database structure as well as overview of the contents. All data included in the database is recorded as points.
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Wildlife Crossings - Jan 2007
This dataset contains Wild Life Crossings from the January 2007 version of the Florida Department of Transportation Roads Characteristics inventory (RCI) dataset. The dataset has been updated from the previous versions of FGDL.
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Amphibians - Class Amphibia
Bog Frog
Collection of known Bog Frog locations compiled for the FWC Wildlife Habitat Conservation Needs report
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Flatwoods Salamander - 2001 to 2005
Positive identification of Flatwoods Salamanders from a 4 year FWC survey of ponds (2001-2005) through the range of Flatwoods Salamanders in Florida
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Pine Barrens Treefrogs
All known Pine Barrens Treefrog locations digitized from paper maps maintained by Paul Moler of the Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission
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Striped Newt
Positive identification of Striped Newts from two sources: (1) Means, D. B., and R. C. Means. 1998. Distribution of the striped newt (Notophthalmus perstriatus) and gopher frog (Rana capito) in Munson sand hills of the Florida panhandle. U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, Jackson, Mississippi, USA. (2) Johnson, S. A., and R. D. Owen. 2005. Status of historical striped newt (Notophthalmus perstriatus) locations in peninsular Florida and some "new" locations. Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission, Tallahassee, Florida, USA.
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Reptiles - Class Reptilia
Reptile Regions
This GIS data set comprises a portion of the Gulf-Wide Information System (G-WIS) database for the entire coastal zone of Florida and the lower St. Johns River. These data characterize coastal environments and wildlife resources for environmental planning and natural resource management purposes. The G-WIS data include three main components: Shoreline habitats, sensitive biological resources, and human-use resources. This data set contains sensitive biological resource data for reptiles (GT-polygon)
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Sand Skinks
All known Sand Skink locations digitized from paper maps maintained by Paul Moler of the Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission
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Turtle Nesting Beaches
The State of Florida, through the Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission's Florida Marine Research Institute, coordinates the Statewide Nesting Beach Survey program (SNBS). The SNBS was initiated in 1979 under a cooperative agreement between FWC (then DNR) and the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service. Its purpose is to document the total distribution, seasonality, and abundance of nesting by sea turtles in Florida. Three species of sea turtles, the loggerhead (Caretta caretta), the green turtle (Chelonia mydas), and the leatherback (Dermochelys coriacea), nest regularly on Florida's beaches. All the species are listed as either Threatened or Endangered under the Endangered Species Act. Survey data are derived from observations of tracks and other nesting signs left on the beach by sea turtles. Species identifications and determinations of nesting or non-nesting emergences are based on the evaluation of features of the track and the nest. Data are gathered through a network of permit holders consisting of private conservation groups, volunteers, consultants, academics, local governments, federal agencies, and the Florida Park Service. Results are used by managers to evaluate and minimize impacts to turtles and their nests due to human activities such as coastal construction, beach renourishment, and recreation, as well as to identify important areas for enhanced protection or land acquisition.
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Turtle Stranding report, August 2008
Coordinated by the Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission - Fish and Wildlife Research Institute (FWRI), the Florida Sea Turtle Stranding and Salvage Network (STSSN) is responsible for gathering standardized data on stranded marine turtles throughout the state. The Florida STSSN functions as a part of an eighteen state network led by NOAA's National Marine Fisheries Service (NMFS). In Florida, strandings are documented by FWRI staff biologists and by a network of permitted participants located around the state. Live strandings are rescued and transported to properly permitted rehabilitation facilities. Data from strandings are collected on a standardized reporting form and include date, species, location, carapace length and width, carcass condition, carcass disposition, and information on anomalies (e.g., entanglement, propeller damage, fibropapillomas). Additionally, certain carcasses are regularly collected by FWRI staff for gross or detailed necropsy. Each week, FWRI reports Florida strandings to NMFS as a part of a management plan that is intended to reduce the incidental take of turtles in the shrimp fishery. FWRI also generates monthly and yearly stranding summary reports to monitor mortality and to detect and describe any unusual stranding events. Stranding data collected through the Florida STSSN have been used extensively in the identification of mortality factors and in the development of recovery actions (e.g., Turtle Excluder Device (TED) requirements, gill net regulations).
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Breeding Bird Atlas
The Breeding Bird Atlas project was a collaborative effort of Audubon of Florida, the Florida Ornithological Society, and the Florida Fish & Wildlife Conservation Commission. More than 1,880 participants, most of them volunteers, were involved in conducting surveys and compiling data.
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Florida Eagle Nesting
Known bald eagle nesting territories within the state of Florida were surveyed by the Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission (FWC) during the 2006 and 2007 nesting season with fixed-wing or rotary-wing aircraft beginning in late November 2005 and extending through mid-April 2006. Nest locations were determined with the use of aircraft-based Global Positioning System (GPS) units. Accuracy of locations is estimated to be within 0.1 miles of the true location. Locations are given in longitude and latitude to hundredths of a minute. The Township, Range, and Section of each nest location are also provided. Township, Range, and Section were determined from the Public Land Survey System grid that includes Land Grant parcels. Yearly nest activity status is listed for the 2002 through 2007 nesting seasons. "Y" denotes an active nest, "N" denotes an inactive nest, and "-" denotes an unobserved nest or a nest whose activity status is unknown.
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Red Cockaded Woodpecker
This shapefile contains location information on the Red Cockaded Woodpecker collected by various state and federal agencies including the Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission. There is no attribute data for these RCW locations. Data were compiled by requesting information from a variety of federal, state, and local biologists, RCW researchers, and area managers who provided the information they had on hand. None of the data were collected in any standardized format nor under any certain protocol. Similar data, e.g., date recorded, location accuracy level, active/inactive status, were not collected or maintained between sites. The data set includes locations of active and inactive nest trees and centroids of cluster locations. The best description of those data would be as general locations of where RCWs have previously occurred. We urge caution against their use as definitive representation of RCW occurrence.
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Scrub Jays - 1992 to 1993
This shapefile plots the locaitons of all Florida Scrub-Jays in 1992-1993 including the size (numbers) of individual families wherever possible. Participants in this project revistited known Florida Scrub-Jay localities to determine their current status; searched new, previously unsurveyed scrub patches for the presence of Florida Scrub-Jays; and compiled and attempted to confirm all existing information on recent Florida Scrub-Jay localities. Information was compiled from reliable , published or unpublished Florida Scrub-Jay surveys.
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Scrub Jay Habitat - 1992 to 1993
This shapefile contains a Florida Scrub-Jay species-wide distribution map which plots the locaion of all Florida Scrub-Jay populations adn their occuped habitat still extant as of 1992-1993 as well as identifies tracts of apparently suitable or restorable habitat that were not occupied by Florida Scrub-Jays in 1992-1993.
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Snowy Plover Nests - 2002 to 2006
Snowy plover nest site locations collected from a 2002-2006 FWC snowy plover status and distribution study. The FWC initiated its snowy plover survey project to (1) reassess the population size and distribution of snowy plovers breeding in Florida, (2) assess the population size and distribution of snowy plovers wintering in Florida, (3) assess productivity of snowy plovers nesting on Florida beaches, and (4) conduct a review of the literature on the Cuban snowy plover.
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Wading Bird Rookeries - 1999
This shapefile contains a range map of wading bird rookeries located in 1999 by the Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission. The Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission conducted a statewide aerial survey during 26 January-25 June 1999 to locate waterbird (herons, egrets, ibises, spoonbills, storks, anhingas, cormorants, and pelicans) breeding colonies and estimate colony size and species composition. Fixed-wing aircraft were used to fly statewide East-West survey transects at 5-km intervals. Survey routes deviated at times to allow inventory of previously known colonies from earlier surveys. This database contains records for all known and verified colonies in the state of Florida that were surveyed by the FWC during the period 1999 nesting season. Nests discovered more recently than this are not included in the database. Each year, a number of new colony sites are found. For this reason, users of this database are cautioned that the absence of a colony record for a given property does not necessarily mean wading birds are not present. This colony locator service is not meant to replace a specific on-the-ground survey. Disturbance to the colony may occur if a visit is made, and many of the colonies are located on private land. Providing these locations does not confer any permission by FWC to access private property.
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Florida Black Bear Range
This shapefile contains a range map of the Florida Black Bear created in 2004 and updated in 2005, 2007, and 2008. The range map was created by the Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission
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Panther Habitat Preservation Plan
The Florida Panther Interagency Committee (FPIC), comprised of the FWS, NPS, GFC, and DEP, was established in 1986 to coordinate recovery of the Florida panther. A Habitat Preservation Plan (HPP), prepared in 1993 for the FPIC, identified 374,868 ha of occupied and potential habitat considered essential to maintaining a minimum viable population of 50 breeding adult panthers in South Florida. These data represent Priority 1 and Priority 2 areas identified by the FPIC
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Panther Habitat Zones
Panther habitat zones were developed by the US Fish and Wildlife Service's panther subteam of Multi-Species/Ecosystem Recovery Implementation Team (MERIT). Members of the MERIT panther recovery subteam identified lands essential to the long-term survival of the Florida panther. The MERIT subteam defined the Primary Zone as "all lands essential for the survival of the Florida panther in the wild." A Secondary Zone includes "lands contiguous with the Primary Zone, and areas which panthers may currently use, and where expansion of the Florida panther population is most likely to occur". Lastly, a Dispersal Zone was identified as an area needed for panthers to disperse north of the Caloosahatchee River.
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Panther Mortality
The Florida panther (Felis concolor coryi) mortality database contains all known and documented mortalities including known or likely causes.
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Habitat Models (not yet available)
Wildlife Habitat Ranking System
Go to the current Wildlife Habitat Ranking System site.
This GIS data set represents the sugar cane habitat type reselected from the fl_veg03 data set (2003).
In 1990, the Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission (FWC) completed a project to map Florida vegetation and land cover using 1985-89 Landsat Thematic Mapper satellite imagery. The resulting digital database contained 17 natural and semi-natural land cover types, 4 land cover types indicative of human disturbance, and 1 water class. By 2003 (the year of the imagery used in this project), the earlier data set (comprised mostly of 1986-87 imagery) was about 16-17 years old, and could no longer be considered current. Not only was the earlier vegetation and land cover data set becoming out of date, but so were the wildlife and strategic habitat models that were based on that data. In order to keep our vegetation, land cover, and wildlife habitat models current, FWC staff realized the need to develop a new, updated vegetation and land cover map for Florida.
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Agriculture - Row Field Crops
This GIS data set represents the row/field crops habitat type reselected from the fl_veg03 data set (2003).
In 1990, the Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission (FWC) completed a project to map Florida vegetation and land cover using 1985-89 Landsat Thematic Mapper satellite imagery. The resulting digital database contained 17 natural and semi-natural land cover types, 4 land cover types indicative of human disturbance, and 1 water class. By 2003 (the year of the imagery used in this project), the earlier data set (comprised mostly of 1986-87 imagery) was about 16-17 years old, and could no longer be considered current. Not only was the earlier vegetation and land cover data set becoming out of date, but so were the wildlife and strategic habitat models that were based on that data. In order to keep our vegetation, land cover, and wildlife habitat models current, FWC staff realized the need to develop a new, updated vegetation and land cover map for Florida. Row crops are agricultural fields in which rows remain well defined even after crops have been harvested. Typical row crops in Florida include corn, tomatoes, potatoes, cotton, and beans. Field crops are agricultural croplands not planted in rows. Typical field crops in Florida include hay and grasses.
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This GIS data set represents the other agriculture habitat type reselected from the fl_veg03 data set (2003).
In 1990, the Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission (FWC) completed a project to map Florida vegetation and land cover using 1985-89 Landsat Thematic Mapper satellite imagery. The resulting digital database contained 17 natural and semi-natural land cover types, 4 land cover types indicative of human disturbance, and 1 water class. By 2003 (the year of the imagery used in this project), the earlier data set (comprised mostly of 1986-87 imagery) was about 16-17 years old, and could no longer be considered current. Not only was the earlier vegetation and land cover data set becoming out of date, but so were the wildlife and strategic habitat models that were based on that data. In order to keep our vegetation, land cover, and wildlife habitat models current, FWC staff realized the need to develop a new, updated vegetation and land cover map for Florida. Agricultural lands other than pasture land, sugar cane fields, citrus groves, and croplands. Types of agricultural lands included in this category are peach orchards, pecan and avocado groves, nurseries and vineyards, specialty farms, aquaculture, fallow cropland, and unidentified agricultural uses.
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Coastal strand occurs on well-drained sandy soils and typically includes the zoned vegetation of the upper beach, nearby dunes, or on coastal rock formations. This community generally occurs in a long, narrow band parallel to the open waters of the Atlantic Ocean or Gulf of Mexico, and along the shores of some saline bays or sounds in both north and south Florida. This community occupies areas formed along high-energy shorelines, and is strongly affected by wind, waves, and salt spray. Vegetation within this community typically consists of low growing vines, grasses, and herbaceous plants with very few small trees or large shrubs. Pioneer or early successional herbaceous vegetation characterizes the foredune and upper beach, while a gradual change to woody plant species occurs in more protected areas landward. Typical plant species include beach morning glory, railroad vine, sea oats, saw palmetto, Spanish bayonet, yaupon holly, wax myrtle, along with sea grape, cocoplum, and other tropicals in southern Florida. The coastal strand community only includes the zone of early successional vegetation that lies between the upper beach, and more highly developed communities landward. Adjacent or contiguous community types such as xeric oak scrubs, pinelands, or hardwood forests would therefore be classified and mapped accordingly.
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Australian Pine
This GIS data set represents the Australian pine habitat type reselected from the fl_veg03 data set (2003).
In 1990, the Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission (FWC) completed a project to map Florida vegetation and land cover using 1985-89 Landsat Thematic Mapper satellite imagery. The resulting digital database contained 17 natural and semi-natural land cover types, 4 land cover types indicative of human disturbance, and 1 water class. By 2003 (the year of the imagery used in this project), the earlier data set (comprised mostly of 1986-87 imagery) was about 16-17 years old, and could no longer be considered current. Not only was the earlier vegetation and land cover data set becoming out of date, but so were the wildlife and strategic habitat models that were based on that data. In order to keep our vegetation, land cover, and wildlife habitat models current, FWC staff realized the need to develop a new, updated vegetation and land cover map for Florida.
This habitat type is represented by sites known to be dominated by Australian pine through field inspection.
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Brazilian Pepper
This GIS data set represents the Brazilian pepper habitat type reselected from the fl_veg03 data set (2003).
In 1990, the Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission (FWC) completed a project to map Florida vegetation and land cover using 1985-89 Landsat Thematic Mapper satellite imagery. The resulting digital database contained 17 natural and semi-natural land cover types, 4 land cover types indicative of human disturbance, and 1 water class. By 2003 (the year of the imagery used in this project), the earlier data set (comprised mostly of 1986-87 imagery) was about 16-17 years old, and could no longer be considered current. Not only was the earlier vegetation and land cover data set becoming out of date, but so were the wildlife and strategic habitat models that were based on that data. In order to keep our vegetation, land cover, and wildlife habitat models current, FWC staff realized the need to develop a new, updated vegetation and land cover map for Florida.
Sites known to be dominated by Brazilian pepper through field inspection.
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Melaleuca
This GIS data set represents the melaleuca habitat type reselected from the fl_veg03 data set (2003).
In 1990, the Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission (FWC) completed a project to map Florida vegetation and land cover using 1985-89 Landsat Thematic Mapper satellite imagery. The resulting digital database contained 17 natural and semi-natural land cover types, 4 land cover types indicative of human disturbance, and 1 water class. By 2003 (the year of the imagery used in this project), the earlier data set (comprised mostly of 1986-87 imagery) was about 16-17 years old, and could no longer be considered current. Not only was the earlier vegetation and land cover data set becoming out of date, but so were the wildlife and strategic habitat models that were based on that data. In order to keep our vegetation, land cover, and wildlife habitat models current, FWC staff realized the need to develop a new, updated vegetation and land cover map for Florida.
Sites known to be dominated by melaleuca through field inspection.
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Lake Cypress - 2005
This dataset serves as documentation of vegetation in the littoral zones around Lake Istokpoga, Lake Tohopekaliga, Lake Kissimmee, Lake Cypress, and Lake Hatchineha, Florida using digital aerial photography. The Vegetation communities were mapped using digital aerial imagery acquired from a Leica ADS40 camera in December of 2005 at a scale of 1 foot pixel resolution. Fieldwork was documented of vegetative species and communities to ensure that imagery signatures correlated to field conditions. A combination of automated image classification and manual photointerpretation was used to delineate vegetation types from the imagery. Each distinct community of emergent and floating vegetation was mapped according to the Florida Land Use, Cover and Forms Classification System (FLUCCS) as detailed in the full metadata file.
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Lake Tohopekaliga (east) - 2007
This dataset serves as documentation of vegetation in the littoral zones around Lake Lochloosa , Lake Istokpoga, East Tohopekaliga, Lake Tohopekaliga and Lake Orange, Florida using digital aerial photography. The Vegetation communities were mapped using digital aerial imagery acquired from a DMC camera in June of 2007 at a scale of 1 foot pixel resolution. Fieldwork was documented of vegetative species and communities to ensure that imagery signatures correlated to field conditions. Photointerpretation was completed steroscopically on stereo workstations.
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Lake Hatchineha - 2005
This dataset serves as documentation of vegetation in the littoral zones around Lake Istokpoga, Lake Tohopekaliga, Lake Kissimmee, Lake Cypress, and Lake Hatchineha, Florida using digital aerial photography. The Vegetation communities were mapped using digital aerial imagery acquired from a Leica ADS40 camera in December of 2005 at a scale of 1 foot pixel resolution. Fieldwork was documented of vegetative species and communities to ensure that imagery signatures correlated to field conditions. A combination of automated image classification and manual photointerpretation was used to delineate vegetation types from the imagery.
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Lake Istokpoga - 2005
This dataset serves as documentation of vegetation in the littoral zones around Lake Istokpoga, Lake Tohopekaliga, Lake Kissimmee, Lake Cypress, and Lake Hatchineha, Florida using digital aerial photography. The Vegetation communities were mapped using digital aerial imagery acquired from a Leica ADS40 camera in December of 2005 at a scale of 1 foot pixel resolution. Fieldwork was documented of vegetative species and communities to ensure that imagery signatures correlated to field conditions. A combination of automated image classification and manual photointerpretation was used to delineate vegetation types from the imagery.
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Lake Istokpoga - 2007
This dataset serves as documentation of vegetation in the littoral zones around Lake Lochloosa , Lake Istokpoga, East Tohopekaliga, Lake Tohopekaliga and Lake Orange, Florida using digital aerial photography. The Vegetation communities were mapped using digital aerial imagery acquired from a DMC camera in June of 2007 at a scale of 1 foot pixel resolution. Fieldwork was documented of vegetative species and communities to ensure that imagery signatures correlated to field conditions. Photointerpretation was completed steroscopically on stereo workstations.
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Lake Kissimmee - 2005
This dataset serves as documentation of vegetation in the littoral zones around Lake Istokpoga, Lake Tohopekaliga, Lake Kissimmee, Lake Cypress, and Lake Hatchineha, Florida using digital aerial photography. The Vegetation communities were mapped using digital aerial imagery acquired from a Leica ADS40 camera in December of 2005 at a scale of 1 foot pixel resolution. Fieldwork was documented of vegetative species and communities to ensure that imagery signatures correlated to field conditions. A combination of automated image classification and manual photointerpretation was used to delineate vegetation types from the imagery.
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Lake Newnans - 2007
This dataset serves as documentation of vegetation in the littoral zone within Newnans Lake, Alachua County, Florida using digital aerial photography. The Vegetation communities were mapped using digital aerial imagery acquired from a DMC camera in June of 2007 at a scale of 1 foot pixel resolution. Fieldwork was documented of vegetative species and communities to ensure that imagery signatures correlated to field conditions. Photointerpretation was completed through mono-viewing of imagery. Each distinct community of emergent and floating vegetation was mapped according to the Florida Land Use, Cover and Forms Classification System (FLUCCS) as detailed in the full metadata file. Each polygon was also assigned a "OCBWG" code which corresponded to the classification system used by the Orange Creek Basin Working Group, within FL Fish & Wildlife Conservation Commission (FWC) - also defined in the full metadata file.
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Lake Orange - 2007
This dataset serves as documentation of vegetation in the littoral zones around Lake Lochloosa , Lake Istokpoga, East Tohopekaliga, Lake Tohopekaliga and Lake Orange, Florida using digital aerial photography. The Vegetation communities were mapped using digital aerial imagery acquired from a DMC camera in June of 2007 at a scale of 1 foot pixel resolution. Fieldwork was documented of vegetative species and communities to ensure that imagery signatures correlated to field conditions. Photointerpretation was completed steroscopically on stereo workstations. Each distinct community of emergent and floating vegetation was mapped according to the Florida Land Use, Cover and Forms Classification System (FLUCCS) as detailed in the full metadata file. The existing HABITAT field was edited to match the desired classification system for this lake. FWC edited the HABITAT field to correspond with a classification system used by the Orange Creek Basin Working Group. All other fields were completed by Avineon.
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Lake Tohopekaliga - 2005
This dataset serves as documentation of vegetation in the littoral zones around Lake Istokpoga, Lake Tohopekaliga, Lake Kissimmee, Lake Cypress, and Lake Hatchineha, Florida using digital aerial photography. The Vegetation communities were mapped using digital aerial imagery acquired from a Leica ADS40 camera in December of 2005 at a scale of 1 foot pixel resolution. Fieldwork was documented of vegetative species and communities to ensure that imagery signatures correlated to field conditions. A combination of automated image classification and manual photointerpretation was used to delineate vegetation types from the imagery.
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Lake Tohopekaliga - 2007
This dataset serves as documentation of vegetation in the littoral zones around Lake Lochloosa , Lake Istokpoga, East Tohopekaliga, Lake Tohopekaliga and Lake Orange, Florida using digital aerial photography. The Vegetation communities were mapped using digital aerial imagery acquired from a DMC camera in June of 2007 at a scale of 1 foot pixel resolution. Fieldwork was documented of vegetative species and communities to ensure that imagery signatures correlated to field conditions. Photointerpretation was completed steroscopically on stereo workstations.
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Marine-Esturarine Wetlands
Mangroves
These dense, brackish water swamps occur along low-energy shorelines and in protected, tidally influenced bays of southern Florida. This community is composed of freeze-intolerant tree species that are distributed south of a line from Cedar Key on the Gulf coast to St. Augustine on the Atlantic coast. These swamp communities are usually dominated by red, black, and white mangroves that progress in a sere from seaward to landward areas, respectively, while buttonwood trees occur in areas above high tide. Openings and transitional areas in mangrove swamps sometimes contain glasswort, saltwort, and other salt marsh species. All three major species of mangroves are mapped as a single class with no effort made to differentiate these species into separate zones.
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This GIS data set represents Florida's salt marsh areas. These data are intended as a general reference map only.
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Tidal Flats
This GIS data set represents the tidal flat habitat type reselected from the fl_veg03 data set (2003). Tidal flats are areas composed of that portion of the shore environment protected from wave action and primarily composed of muds transported by tidal channels.
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Cabbage Palm - Live Oak Hammock
This plant community is characterized by cabbage palms and live oaks occurring in small clumps within prairie communities. These hammocks typically have an open understory which may include such species as wax myrtle, water oak, and saw palmetto. Cabbage palm-live oak hammocks are often found bordering large lakes and rivers, and are distributed throughout the prairie region of south central Florida and extend northward in the St. John's River basin. Cabbage palms often form a fringe around hardwood islands located within improved pastures.
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Dry Prairies
Dry prairies are large native grass and shrublands occurring on very flat terrain interspersed with scattered cypress domes and strands, bayheads, isolated freshwater marshes, and hardwood hammocks. This community is characterized by many species of grasses, sedges, herbs, and shrubs, including saw palmetto, fetterbush, staggerbush, tar flower, gallberry, blueberry, wiregrass, carpet grasses, and various bluestems. The largest areas of these treeless plains historically occurred just north of Lake Okeechobee, and they were subject to annual or frequent fires. Many of these areas have been converted to improved pasture. In central and south Florida, palmetto prairies, which consist of former pine flatwoods where the overstory trees have been thinned or removed, are also included in this category. These sites contain highly scattered pines that cover less than 10 to 15 percent of an area.
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Hardwood Hammock Forests
This hardwood hammock and forest class includes the major upland hardwood associations that occur statewide on fairly rich sandy soils. Variations in species composition, and the local or spatial distributions of these communities are due in part to differences in soil moisture regimes, soil type, and geographic location within the state. Mesic and xeric variations are included within this association. The mesic hammock community represents the climax vegetation type within many areas of northern and central Florida. Characteristic species in the extreme north include American beech, southern magnolia, Shumard oak, white oak, mockernut hickory, pignut hickory, sourgum, basswood, white ash, mulberry, and spruce pine. Mesic hammocks of the peninsula are less diverse due to the absence of hardwood species that are adapted to more northerly climates, and are characterized by laurel oak, hop hornbeam, blue beech, sweetgum, cabbage palm, American holly, and southern magnolia. Xeric hammocks occur on deep, well-drained, sandy soils where fire has been absent for long periods of time. These open, dry hammocks contain live oak, sand-live oak, bluejack oak, blackjack oak, southern red oak, sand-post oak, and pignut hickory
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Mixed Hardwood - Pine Forests
This mixed pine-hardwood forest community is the southern extension of the Piedmont southern mixed hardwoods, and occurs mainly on the clay soils on the northern Pandhandle. Younger stands may be predominantly pines, while a complex of various hardwoods become co-dominants as the system matures over time through plant succession. The overstory consists of shortleaf and loblolly pine, American beech, mockernut hickory, southern red oak, water oak, American holly, and dogwood. Also included in this category are other upland forests that occur statewide and contain a mixture of conifers and hardwoods as the co-dominant overstory component. These communities contain longleaf pine, slash pine, and loblolly pine in mixed association with live oak, laurel oak, and water oak, together with other hardwood species characteristic of the upland hardwood hammocks and forests class.
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Natural Pinelands
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Tropical Hardwood Hammock
These upland hardwood forests occur in extreme south Florida and are characterized by tree and shrub species on the northern edge of a range that extends southward into the Caribbean. These communities are sparsely distributed along coastal uplands south of a line from about Vero Beach on the Atlantic coast to Sarasota on the Gulf coast. They occur on many tree islands in the Everglades and on uplands throughout the Florida Keys. This cold-intolerant tropical community has very high plant species diversity, sometimes containing over 35 species of trees and about 65 species of shrubs. Characteristic tropical plants include strangler fig, gumbo-limbo, mastic, bustic, lancewood, ironwoods, poisonwood, pigeon plum, Jamaica dogwood, and Bahama lysiloma. Live oak and cabbage palm are also sometimes found within this community. Tropical hammocks in the Florida Keys may also contain several plants, including lignum vitae, mahogany, thatch palms, and manchineel, which are extremely rare within the United States.
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Palustrine Wetland Communities
Bay Swamp
These hardwood swamps contain broadleaf evergreen trees that occur in shallow, stagnant drainages or depressions often found within pine flatwoods, or at the base of sandy ridges where seepage maintains constantly wet soils. The soils, which are usually covered by an abundant layer of leaf litter, are mostly acidic peat or muck that remains saturated for long periods but over which little water level fluctuation occurs. Overstory trees within bayheads are dominated by sweetbay, swamp bay, and loblolly bay. Depending on the location within the state, other species including pond pine, slash pine, blackgum, cypress, and Atlantic white cedar can occur as scattered individuals, but bay trees dominate the canopy and characterize the community. Understory and gound cover species may include dahoon holly, wax myrtle, fetterbush, greenbriar, royal fern, cinnamon fern, and sphagnum moss.
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Bottomland Hardwood Forests
These wetland forests are composed of a diverse assortment of hydric hardwoods which occur on the rich alluvial soils of silt and clay deposited along several Pandhandle rivers including the Apalachicola, Choctawhatchee, and Escambia. These communities are characterized by an overstory that includes water hickory, overcup oak, swamp chestnut oak, river birch, American sycamore, red maple, Florida elm, bald cypress, blue beech, and swamp ash .
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Cattail Marshes
Freshwater marsh habitat areas dominated by cattails.
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Cypress Swamp
Cypress swamps are regularly inundated wetlands form a forested border along large rivers, creeks, and lakes, or occur in depressions as circular domes or linear strands. These communities are strongly dominated by either bald cypress or pond cypress, with very low numbers of scattered black gum, red maple, and sweetbay. Understory and ground cover are usually sparse due to frequent flooding but sometimes include such species as buttonbush, lizard's-tail, and various ferns.
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Cypress-Pine-Cabbage Palms
This community includes cypress, pine and/or cabbage palm in combinations in which none of the species achieves dominance. This assemblage forms a transition between moist upland and hydric sites.
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Freshwater Marsh and Wet Prairie
These freshwater marsh and wet prairie wetland communities are dominated by a wide assortment of herbaceous plant species growing on sand, clay, marl, and organic soils in areas of variable water depths and inundation regimes. Generally, freshwater marshes occur in deeper, more strongly inundated situations and are characterized by tall emergents and floating-leaved species. Freshwater marshes occur within flatwoods depressions, along broad, shallow lake and river shorelines, and scattered in open areas within hardwood and cypress swamps. Also, other portions of freshwater lakes, rivers, and canals that are dominated by floating-leaved plants such as lotus, spatterdock, duck weed, and water hyancinths are included in this category. Wet prairies commonly occur in shallow, periodically inundated areas and are usually dominated by aquatic grasses, sedges, and their associates. Wet prairies occur as scattered, shallow depressions within dry prairie areas and on marl prairie areas in south Florida. Also included in this category are areas in Southwest Florida with scattered dwarf cypress having less than 20 percent canopy coverage, and a dense ground cover of freshwater marsh plants. Various combinations of pickerel weed, sawgrass, maidencane, arrowhead, fire flag, cattail, spike rush, bulrush, white water lily, water shield, and various sedges dominate freshwater marshes and wet prairies. Many marsh or wet prairie types, such as sawgrass marsh or maidencane prairie, have been described and so-named based on their dominant plant species.
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Hardwood Swamp
These wooded wetland communities are composed of either pure stands of hardwoods, or occur as a mixture of hardwoods and cypress where hardwoods achieve dominance. This association of wetland-adapted trees occurs throughout the state on organic soils and forms the forested floodplains of non-alluvial rivers, creeks, and broad lake basins. Tree species include a mixed overstory containing black gum, water tupelo, bald cypress, dahoon holly, red maple, swamp ash, cabbage palm, and sweetbay.
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Hydric Hammocks
Hydric hammocks occur on soils that are poorly drained or have high water tables. This association is a still-water wetland, flooded less frequently and for shorter periods of time than mixed hardwood and cypress swamps. Outcrops of limestone are common in the gulf coastal area. Typical plant species include laurel oak, live oak, cabbage palm, southern red cedar, and sweetgum. Canopy closure is typically 75-90%. The sub-canopy layer and ground layer vegetation is highly variable between sites. Wax myrtle is the most frequent shrub in hydric hammock. Other shrubs include yaupon, dahoon, and swamp dogwood. Ground cover may be absent or consist of a dense growth of ferns, sedges, grasses, and greenbriars. Sites are usually between mesic hammocks or pine flatwoods and river swamp, wet prairie, or marsh. This hammock type is found in a narrow band along parts of the Gulf coast and along the St. Johns river where they often extend to the edge of coastal salt marshes.
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Mixed Wetland and Forests
This category includes mixed wetland forest communities in which neither hardwoods nor conifers achieve dominance. The mix can include hardwoods with pine or cypress and can represent a mixed hydric site or a transition between hardwoods and conifers on hydric/mesic sites.
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Sawgrass Marshes
Freshwater marshes dominated by sawgrass.
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Shrub Swamp
Shrub swamps are wetland communities dominated by dense, low-growing, woody shrubs or small trees. Shrub swamps are usually characteristic of wetland areas that are experiencing environmental change, and are early to mid-successional in species complement and structure. These changes are a result of natural or man-induced perturbations due to increased or decreased hydroperiod, fire, clear cutting or land clearing, and siltation. Shrub swamps statewide may be dominated by one species, such as willow, or an array of opportunistic plants may form a dense, low canopy. Common species include willow, wax myrtle, primrose willow, buttonbush, and saplings of red maple, sweetbay, black gum, and other hydric tree species indicative of wooded wetlands. In northern Florida, some shrub swamps are a fire-maintained subclimax of bay swamps. These dense shrubby areas are dominated by black titi, swamp cyrilla, fetterbush, sweet pepperbush, doghobble, large gallberry, and myrtle-leaf holly.
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Bare Soil and Clearcut
Areas of bare soil representing recent timber cutting operations, areas devoid of vegetation as a consequence of recent fires, natural areas of exposed bare soil (e.g., sandy areas within xeric communities), or bare soil exposed due to vegetation removal for unknown reasons.
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Grassland
These are upland communities where the predominant vegetative cover is very low growing grasses and forbs. This very early successional category includes all sites with herbaceous vegetation during the time period between bare ground, and the shrub and brush stage. It also includes areas that may be maintained in this stage through periodic mowing, such as along dikes or levees.
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Shrub Brushland
This association includes a variety of situations where natural upland community types have been recently disturbed through clear-cutting commercial pinelands, land clearing, or fire, and are recovering through natural successional processes. This type could be characterized as an early condition of old-field succession, and various shrubs, tree saplings, and lesser amounts of grasses and herbs dominate the community. Common species include wax myrtle, saltbush, sumac, elderberry, saw palmetto, blackberry, gallberry, fetterbush, staggerbush, broomsedge, dog fennel, together with oak, pine and other tree seedlings or saplings.
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Extractive
These areas encompass surface and subsurface mining operations. Areas included are sand, gravel and clay pits, phosphate mines, and limestone quarries. Industrial complexes were the extracted material is refined, packaged or further processed may also be included in this category.
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High Impact - Urban
Unvegetated areas such as roads, residential and commercial buildings, parking lots, etc.
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Low Impact - Urban
Disturbed areas within urbanized areas that may or may not be vegetated. Examples of land uses included in this category are lawns, golf courses, road shoulders, grassy areas surrounding places such as airports, park facilities, etc. Many secondary roads, such as forest roads, are included in this category.
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Sandhills
Sandhill communities occur in areas of rolling terrain on deep, well-drained, white to yellow, sterile sands. This xeric community is dominated by an overstory of scattered longleaf pine, along with an understory of turkey oak and bluejack oak. The park-like ground cover consists of various grasses and herbs, including wiregrass, partridge pea, beggars tick, milk pea, queen's delight, and others. Fire is an important factor in controlling hardwood competition and other aspects of sandhill ecology. Although many of these sites throughout the state have been modified through the selective or severe cutting of longleaf pine, these areas are still included in the sandhill category.
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Sand Scrub Pines
Sand pine scrub occurs on extremely well drained, sorted, sterile sands deposited along former shorelines and islands of ancient seas. This xeric plant community is dominated by an overstory of sand pine and has an understory of myrtle oak, Chapman's oak, sand-live oak, and scrub holly. Ground cover is usually sparse to absent, especially in mature stands, and rosemary and lichens occur in some open areas. Sites within the Ocala National Forest that have an overstory of direct seeded sand pine, and an intact understory of characteristic xeric scrub oaks, are also included in this category. Fire is an important ecological management tool, and commonly results in even-aged stands within regenerated sites. The distribution of this community type is almost entirely restricted to within the state of Florida.
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Xeric Scrub Oaks
Xeric oak scrub is a xeric hardwood community typically consisting of clumped patches of low growing oaks interspersed with bare areas of white sand. This community occurs on areas of deep, well-washed, sterile sands, and it is the same understory complex of scrubby oaks and other ground cover species that occurs in the sand pine scrub community. This condition frequently occurs when the short time periods between severe fires results in the complete removal of sand pine as an overstory species. Also included in this category are sites within the Ocala National Forest which have been clear-cut, and are sometimes dominated during the first one to five years by the xeric oak scrub association. The xeric oak scrub community is dominated by myrtle oak, Chapman's oak, sand-live oak, scrub holly, scrub plum, scrub hickory, rosemary, and saw palmetto. Fire is important in setting back plant succession and maintaining viable oak scrubs
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Reservoir or Managed Lakes
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Seepage or Steephead Streams
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Springs - First Magnatude
This is a 2006 statewide point coverage representing a more comprehensive and accurate springs database than the previous Springs coverage provided. The majority of these springs have been verified by name.
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This data set represents the extent, approximate location and type of wetlands and deepwater habitats in the conterminous United States. These data delineate the areal extent of wetlands and surface waters as defined by Cowardin et al. (1979).
Certain wetland habitats are excluded from the National mapping program because of the limitations of aerial imagery as the primary data source used to detect wetlands. These habitats include seagrasses or submerged aquatic vegetation that are found in the intertidal and subtidal zones of estuaries and near shore coastal waters. Some deepwater reef communities (coral or tuberficid worm reefs) have also been excluded from the inventory. These habitats, because of their depth, go undetected by aerial imagery.
By policy, the Service also excludes certain types of "farmed wetlands" as may be defined by the Food Security Act or that do not coincide with the Cowardin et al. definition. Contact the Service's Regional Wetland Coordinator for additional information on what types of farmed wetlands are included on wetland maps.
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FKNMS Boundary
These GIS data represent the boundary of the Florida Keys National Marine Sanctuary (FKNMS) in polygon format. These data were generated from latitude and longitude coordinates in degrees, minutes, and seconds as given in the Federal Register. The first version of this data set was created at FWRI in 1998. The current version includes the January 2001 changes, including the Tortugas Ecological Reserve North and South areas as part of the FKNMS, in the boundary description.
Because the FKNMS shares boundaries with other existing managed areas, every effort was made to use the most precise coordinates available for these boundaries. However, due to precision differences in the definitions, these shared boundaries may appear different in GIS layers that were created based on definitions of the other managed areas. This edition was created using the most precise coordinates available.
The following sources were used to make these data: 1) boundary of FKNMS, Federal Register 2) boundary of Everglades National Park, National Park Service (based on 1:24k USGS Quads) 3) boundary of Biscayne Bay National Park, National Park Service (based on 1:24k USGS Quads) 4) existing shoreline at 1:40,000 scale.
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Florida Aquatic Preserves
This GIS data set represents aquatic preserves (AP) in the State of Florida. The Fish and Wildlife Research Institute (FWRI) originally created Aquatic Preserves (AP) in the State of Florida from legal descriptions using 1:24000 scale shoreline. Florida Department of Environmental Protection (FDEP) Coastal and Aquatic Managed Areas (CAMA) now maintains the data set. Aquatic preserves are ecologically significant submerged lands maintained in relatively pristine condition.
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Florida Beach Names
This GIS data layer contains polygon features for Florida Beach names. The classification of features is based upon guidelines for developing digital ESI (Environmental Sensitivity Index) atlases and databases. The ESI classification was performed 06/1993.
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Florida State Parks
This GIS polygon data set represents the state parks of Florida. The Florida Department of Environmental Protection (FDEP) maintains these data and provides biannual updates. FDEP last updated this data set in 2005. Attributes were derived from Properties Under the Jurisdiction of Division of Recreation and Parks.
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Tortugas Ecological Reserve
These GIS data represent the Dry Tortugas Ecological Reserve boundary. Attribute data explain restrictions for each area as well as name of area. These data were generated from latitude and longitude coordinates from the Federal Register.
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Florida Managed Areas
This is a polygon data layer for public (and some private) lands that the Florida Natural Areas Inventory (FNAI) has identified as having natural resource value and that are being managed at least partially for conservation purposes. The term "Managed Area" refers to a managed conservation land.
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Florida Water Management Districts
This is a Florida GIS data set containing the boundaries of the five water management districts, reflecting the boundary change effective July 1, 2003. FMRI obtained these data from the Southwest Florida Water Management District (SWFWMD.) Although only the region polygon shapefile is served on the ArcIMS site, an arc version is also available. The arcs have been coded so that they may be drawn with or without the coastline. This data set is intended for cartographic purposes only.
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Florida Regional Planning Council
This GIS data set represents Regional Planning Council (RPC) boundaries, with attributes to also describe zones, regions, and counties. These data were an arc coverage then merged with a Florida shoreline at a 1:100,000 scale to create a polygon coverage.
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FWC Regional Boundaries
This GIS data set shows the FWC regions with a generalized shoreline.
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Florida BER Districts
This polygon GIS data set visually represents the Florida Department of Environmental Protection, Division of Law Enforcement,Bureau of Emergency Response (BER) Districts. The Bureau of Emergency Response District boundaries are based on the counties that each BER Office serves. The data set was created from FMRI's 1:24000 counties data set, which was attributed to include the BER district name and then DISSOLVEd on that name. Attributes were added to include contact information for each district. The extensions of county boundaries into water may be arbitrary. These data are for cartographic use only; they are not intended for use as legal boundaries.
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Florida Shoreline(1:1,000,000)
This GIS data set represents the shoreline of Florida in polygon format at a 1:1,000,000 scale. FWRI acquired this data set from the Defense Mapping Agency.
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Florida Shoreline(1:500,000)
This GIS data set represents a general Florida shoreline in a quick drawing, minimally detailed polygon and line format.
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Florida Shoreline(1:100,000)
This GIS data set represents the shoreline of the state of Florida, including inland lakes and rivers, at a 1:100,000 scale. The data were obtained from US census 2000 files. The census data downloaded by county from ESRI's ArcData Online, were MAPJOINed to form a Florida data set. The "water polygons" and "counties" data were used to create the shoreline data set.
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Florida Shoreline(1:40,000)
This GIS data set represents the Florida shoreline as polygons and lines. Initially digitized in 1990 by USFWS under FMRI contract, the data set was created from the most current National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) Nautical Charts available at the time. The scale of the source charts varied from 1:10,000 in some harbors to 1:80,000 in the Big Bend area. However, most of the source scale is 1:40,000. The current data set is the result of revisions to the 1990 version. Some areas, including inland areas where there is no chart coverage and areas that have needed more accuracy for individual projects, have been digitized from USGS 7.5-minute Quadrangles and Digital Orthophoto Quarter Quadrangles (DOQQs).
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Florida County Boundary(1:500,000)
This polygon and line GIS data set represents the counties of the state of Florida. The county boundaries and shoreline draw quickly, but detail is minimal. The original source and scale of the data are unknown, but the scale is believed to be approximately 1:500,000.
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Florida County Boundary(1:100,000)
This GIS data set represents the counties and shoreline of the state of Florida, including inland lakes and rivers, at a 1:100,000 scale. Data obtained from US census 2000 files were downloaded by county from ESRI's ArcData Online and MAPJOINed to form the Florida data set. The "water polygons" and "counties" data were used to create this data set.
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Florida County Boundary(1:24,000)
This GIS data set contains Florida county boundaries found on the most recent 7.5-minute USGS (1:24000 scale) quadrangles available in 1997. The county borders extend to the state water line. The linework along the state borders with Alabama and Georgia exactly matches FMRI's 1:40K shoreline.
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Southeastern US EEZ
This GIS data set represents the exclusive economic zone (EEZ) line of the southeast United States. The EEZ line represents the separation of federal waters from international waters. On March 10, 1983, U.S. President Ronald Reagan signed proclamation 5030, which established the U.S. Excusive Economic Zone (EEZ). This consists of those areas adjoining the territorial sea of the U.S., the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico, the Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands, and U.S. overseas territories and possessions. The EEZ extends up to 200 nautical miles (370 km) from the U.S. coastline. About 15 percent of this area lies on the geologic continental shelf and is shallower than 200 meters. Within its EEZ, the U.S. has sovereign rights over all living and non-living resources. Other nations may exercise freedom of vessel navigation and overflight within the U.S. EEZ (Source: Year of the Ocean Discussion Papers 1998; 2nd Ed. of Coastal and Ocean Law by Kalo et al. 1994).
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Environmental Sensitivity Index (ESI) Shoreline
This GIS data set comprises an update to the shoreline habitat component of the Environmental Sensitivity Index (ESI) and Gulf-Wide Information System (G-WIS) databases for the coastal zone of Florida, including the lower St. Johns River. The ESI and G-WIS data suites characterize coastal habitats and resources for environmental planning and natural resource management purposes, including oil spill planning and response. The ESI and G-WIS data include three main components: shoreline habitats, sensitive biological resources, and human-use resources. The data layer described in this document contains the linear ESI (complete chains) shoreline habitat classification.
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Florida Township Range Grid(1:100,000)
This GIS data set represents the Public Lands Survey System (PLSS) grid at 1:100000 scale. These data were derived from U.S. Census Topologically Integrated Geographic Encoding and Referencing system (TIGER) files. FMRI acquired these data in a GIS format from the Florida Joint Legislative Management Committee on Economic and Demographic Research.
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County Boundaries of the Southeast US
This GIS data set represents the counties of the states bordering the Gulf of Mexico and Atlantic ocean, from Delaware to Texas. This data set also includes a general shoreline of eastern Mexico.
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