Directory of data containing large scale conservation and public lands at town or regional levels. Includes federal, state, town, and land trust ownership and easement. This data should not be redistributed outside USFWS (digital or portrayed on a map) without approval by Gulf of Maine Coastal Program or the data source. Private lands in these data sets also should not be displayed on maps without permission of the source (usually the land trust). Data should not be displayed without a note similar to: "Public access to these lands may be limited. Contact landowner for more information."
To add most conservation lands data to ArcMap, load M:\gis\ME-Conservation-Public lands.lyr
Most recent/relevant data is in bold or blue.
| MNRCP.gdb | Maine Natural Resource Conservation Program; File Geodatabase containing the following feature classes (use Layer file to add data to MXD): | |
| Feature Class | Description (see Word doc in this directory for more info) | Currentness |
| FishPassage | Fish passage restoration projects; linear | 8/2012 |
| FullProposals | Subset of LOI; Projects receiving Full Proposal consideration; polygon. | 8/2012 |
| ILF_Impacts | DEP/Corps impact projects where in-lieu fee was used; points. | 8/2012 |
| LOI | Every compensation project received by MNRCP; points. | 8/2012 |
| gomp_conspub.gdb | File geodatabase of conservation lands collected by GOMP with the following feature classes: | |
| Feature Class | Description | Currentness |
| acadia_boundary | Acadia NPS boundary (originally ParkBoundry_Poly_CARTO_200901.shp; from NPS). | 1/2009 |
| acadia_nat_park | Data from COA/ANP for ANP protected parcels in and around Mount Desert Island; parcel level scale; currentness ~ 2000 (anp46_nad27; acquired 12/00) | ~2000 |
| arundel | From CMP (arundel-conser; acquired 3/01) | 1999/2000 |
| biddeford | From CMP (bidd-conserva; acquired 3/01) | 1999/2000 |
| BPL_Cons_Lands_region | Maine BPL's conservation lands. See BPL_Con_Lands 2011-10.txt for field descriptions. | 10/2011 |
| brlt | Conservation holdings of Boothbay Region Land Trust; from SVCA 7/2011; originally called brltpy_0408 and assumed to be current as of 4/2008. | 4/2008 |
| cape_elizabeth | From CMP (cpecon~1; acquired 3/01) | 1999/2000 |
| cmlt_1 | Conservation holdings of Coastal Mountains Land Trust; from SVCA. | 7/2011 |
| cnld03 | From Wells NERR, conservation and public lands for Southern coastal ME, acq'd May 2004. | 5/2003 |
| conserved_lands | Conservation lands layer developed by MDOC. Moved to me_vector. | |
| dlwa | Conservation holdings of Damariscotta Lake Watershed Alliance; from SVCA; originally called dlwa_12_09. | 12/2009 |
| dra | Conservation holdings of Damariscotta River Association; from SVCA, originally called dra_03_09. | 3/2009 |
| eliot | From CMP (eliot conserv; acquired 3/01) | 1999/2000 |
| grlt | Conservation holdings of Georges River Land Trust; from SVCA. | 7/2011 |
| gomp_conspub | Conservation and public lands shapefile maintained by GOMP. Includes many parcels in progress. See metadata for full description and lutables directory for lookup tables. | 2/19/10 |
| kennebunk | From CMP (klt holdings; acquired 3/01) | 1999/2000 |
| kennebunkport | From CMP (kennebkpt-conserva; acquired 3/01) | 1999/2000 |
| kep_tracts8 | TNC parcels/conslands for Kennebec Estuary; also see newer version 'TNC' below. | 2002 |
| lutables | Directory of lookup tables for codes in gomp_conspub. | |
| maine_land_trusts | Work areas of Maine land trusts; individual files from MCHT appended by GOMP | 2001 |
| mcht | Maine Coast Heritage Trust conservation lands | 1/2012 |
| mdi-mcht2000 | Protected lands on Mount Desert Island as determined by MCHT; from COA; (allmcht2000; acquired 12/00) | 2000 |
| mdi | from COA; additional parcel level protected lands data for Mount Desert Island; currentness uncertain; (mdipro12; acquired 12/00 | ~1999 |
| mecnslnd | Replaced by conserved_lands above. Contains conservation lands ownership boundaries at 1:24,000 scale for Maine land in federal, state, and non-profit ownership with easements. See metadata in ArcCatalog. Often called ME Kelly. | 2004 |
| MFT | Maine Farmland Trust holdings; see email in this directory. | 6/18/2012 |
| mvlt | Conservation holdings of Medomak Valley Land Trust; from SVCA 7/11; originally mvlt_6_11. | 6/2011 |
| old_orchard_beach | From CMP (acquired 3/01) | 1999/2000 |
| pwa | Conservation holdings of Pemaquid Watershed Association. From SVCA. | 7/2011 |
| saco | From CMP (sacocon; acquired 3/01) | 1999/2000 |
| scarborough | From CMP | 1999/2000 |
| SoMeConlandSouthMCHT2012 | Conservation lands in Southern Maine, in conjunction with Wells, NERR. | 2010 |
| SoMeConlandNorth | Southern Maine conservation lands from WNERR; 3/2008 (note currentness is incorrect in metadata). | 3/2008 |
| SoMeConlandSouth | Southern Maine conservation lands from WNERR; 3/2008 (note currentness is incorrect in metadata). | 3/2008 |
| SoMeConlandSouthold | Older version of conservation lands from WNERR. | |
| svca | Conservation holdings of Sheepscot Valley Conservation Association. From SVCA. | 7/2011 |
| svca_other | Other conservation lands in the Sheepscot Valley Conservation Association service center area. From SVCA 7/2011. | 7/2011 |
| swla | Conservation holdings of Sheepscot Wellspring Land Alliance (upper Sheepscot River Valley). From SVCA | 7/2011 |
| TNC | TNC Managed Area Polygons; includes TNC, and shareable State, Federal, and Land Trust lands. See notes in this directory. | 5/2012 |
| wells | From CMP (wells conservation; acquired 3/01) | 1999/2000 |
| wma_boundaries | MDIFW Wildlife Management Boundaries from Ryan Robicheau. Lines developed based on handheld GPS data collection at corners where possible and bearings/distances from surveys. | 6/1/2012 |
| york | From CMP (york-conserv; acquired 3/01) | 1999/2000 |
| YorkLT_holdings | From York Land Trust; they received from WNERR. | 10/2009 |
parcels.dbf - Database of ME land trust conserved lands; compiled by Curtis Bohlen's env. studies class at Bates College 1997; from MCHT; no geographical referencing. See also the MS Access database 'ME land trust conserved lands.mdb.'
LEVEL OF PROTECTION (PDF)table used in gomp_conspub defines 5 distinct levels of protection for conservation and public lands.
Acronyms used:
ANP=Acadia National Park
CMP=Coastal Mosaic Project (project no longer in existence; part of WNERR)
COA=College of the Atlantic
MCHT=Maine Coast Heritage Trust
NAWCA=North American Wetland Conservation Act
