| | Accession Number | 5003909 |
| | Title | Development and dissemination of a presettlement forest land cover map for guiding |
| | landscape scale ecosystem restoration in Wisconsin |
| | Project Description | This project represents a collaboration between the State of Wisconsin and the Biological |
| | Resources Division to develop, produce, and disseminate detailed quantitative map coverages and |
| | data sets of the pre-European forest cover of the northern forested part of Wisconsin. The |
| | description of landscape condition prior to large-scale alteration by European settlement is a |
| | critical component of state and regional forest management plans. A knowledge of pre-European |
| | landscape condition is needed to initiate landscape level ecosystem restoration projects. |
| | Landscape-scale forest management and restoration are increasingly viewed as a significant |
| | component of sustainable ecosystem initiatives and assessments of state and national forests |
| | must consider the historical context of changing land cover and land use. New GIS and spatial |
| | modeling techniques will be used to transform the historic data sets of tree species spatial |
| | coverage found in the General Land Office presettlement surveys of federal lands into a series of |
| | forest coverages and maps at various scales and spatial resolutions. |
| | Keywords | forests, gis, glo, landscape, mapping, restoration, spatial statistics, |
| | Principal | Dr. G R, USGS Patuxent Wildlife Research Center: glenn_guntenspergen@usgs.gov; |
| | Investigators |
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