Data from Maine Natural Areas Program (MNAP)
All data in this directory is from MNAP and should not be redistributed or portrayed on maps outside of the USFWS without permission of MNAP. EOS data is usually updated quarterly (Jan/April/July/Oct).
Directory of \gis\me\mnap Data was put into the File Geodatabase "MNAPdata.gdb" October, 2009 |
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name -feature class |
description |
date acq'd or |
| Focus_areas | Focus areas for protection based on State data. These polygons are included in the Beginning With Habitat program. Inland criteria for selection. Coastal focus areas added in 2007. | 4/2008 |
| mnap_eos | The same as S_Precision except that all of the long text fields have been removed, orchids are buffered by 0.125 miles and hidden, and "rare plant" was substituted for the names of orchids and ginseng. This is the data MNAP puts out for general use on the state GIS server and is the one that is used in creation of BwH maps. Metadata available in ArcCatalog. |
02/2010 |
| MNAP_historic_Extant_EOs | All tracked rare plants and rare or exemplary natural communities and ecosystems that have been documented within the state, and includes historical occurrences and records for all S4 and S5 natural communities and ecosystems, not just exemplary ones. Includes a G (general) and M (minutes) precision records. G precision records are those mapped to an entire township, and generally represent things like old herbarium specimens where the collection info only indicates the town in which the specimen was collected. M precision records have better locational info, but not good enough to say exactly where something was found. |
02/2010 |
| MNAP_mega_ecosystems | Contains 2 very large ecosystems, a Central Hardwoods Oak Forest at Mt. A and a Spruce-Fir-Northern Hardwood Forest on MDI. Metadata available in ArcCatalog. | 10/2009 |
| Plant_Centroids | Locations of rare plant CENTROIDS. Created from S_Precision file to make data more visible. Metadata available in ArcCatalog. | 02/2010 |
| S_Precision | Locations of rare plants and rare and exemplary natural communites and ecosystems. Replaces former "Extant_EOs" shapefile. This feature class includes records that ar tracked, for which there is good locational information (including records older than 20 years). Look at the LAST_OBS_D field to see the date of the last observation, as well as the EO_RANK field to see what the quality ranking is of a particular occurrence. Many of the records that were previously excluded are in fact still good (e.g., some of the large peatlands that nobody has visited in the past 20 years). Metadata available in ArcCatalog. | 02/2010 |
| S_Precision_single | S_Precision feature class with multi-part polys exploded into single part (by GOMP). | 02/2010 |
Last updated: February 22, 2010
