MINNESOTA RIVER BASIN DATA CENTER State Data Inventory Summary for Land Cover/Land Use


MINNESOTA RIVER BASIN DATA CENTER

State Data Inventory Summary for Land Cover/Land Use


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Agricultural and Transition Areas (1989 State Land Use)

Data Summary The 1989 State Land Use data categorized 17 classes of land use from a variety of late 1980’s source materials. This data is available for all counties within the Minnesota River Basin except Carver, Scott, Dakota, Hennepin, and Ramsey.
 
Data Description Format (s):   GIS ARC/INFO
                                      
Period of Record:  1988-1990
Extent: partial state coverage
Retrieval: by county
Contact Information Agency:  Minnesota Land Management Information Center (LMIC)
Name:  Nancy Rader
Phone:  651-296-1211
Last update 5/99


Conservation Reserve Program (CRP) and Reinvest in Minnesota (RIM) Mapping

Data Summary The Minnesota Department of Agriculture (MDA) has mapped statewide CRP and RIM easement acres from 1986 - 1992 enrollment years in ARC/INFO and EPPL 7.
 
Data Description Format (s):   Electronic Database
             GIS ARC/INFO
             EPPL 7
            
Period of Record:  1986 - 1992
Extent: statewide
Retrieval: by Lat/Long
Contact Information Agency:  Minnesota Department of Agriculture (MDA)
Name:  Barbara Weisman
Phone:  612-282-6831
Last update 5/99


Permitted Feedlots

Data Summary The Minnesota Pollution Control Agency (MPCA) administers the statewide Feedlot Permitting Program. Data are numbers of permitted feedlots per county, available for those counties participating in the Feedlot Permitting Program.
 
Data Description Format (s):   Electronic Document
                                      
Period of Record:  1990 - present
Extent: statewide
Retrieval: by county
Contact Information Agency:  Minnesota Pollution Control Agency (MPCA)
Name:  Paul Trapp
Phone:  651-296-8456
Last update 5/99


Tillage Transect Survey

Data Summary Tillage Transect data can be queried by county, watershed, Minnesota River Basin, or statewide. Examples of data from the Tillage Transect Survey include soil loss/acre and %residue acres/county. Data are distributed in hard copy format, electronic documents, or converted to ASCII files.
 
Data Description Format (s):   Electronic Database
                                      
Period of Record:  1995- 1998
Extent: statewide
Retrieval: by County
Contact Information Agency:  Minnesota Board of Water and Soil Resources (BWSR)
Name:  Merrill Anderson
Phone:  320-202-0554
Last update 5/99



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