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Land use and disturbance history for Badlands National Park, South Dakota, through March 2018

Dates

Publication Date
Start Date
1850
End Date
2018-03-01

Citation

Modlin, M.C., and Symstad, A.J., 2018, Land use and disturbance history for seven northern Great Plains National Park Service units, ~1850-2018: U.S. Geological Survey data release, https://doi.org/10.5066/P9YBJA1G.

Summary

This spatial data set provides information pertaining to the known land use and disturbance history for lands within the March 2018 administrative boundary of the North Unit of Badlands National Park, South Dakota. Land use and disturbance history presented here are not a comprehensive record of all potential land uses and disturbances but rather a record of known and documented land uses and disturbances based on the best available information. Additional land use and disturbance information may exist but due to time and budget constraints may not have been discovered during the research and development of this data set. The information in this data set was gathered through a variety of sources including but not limited to communication [...]

Contacts

Point of Contact :
Amy Symstad
Originator :
Matthew C Modlin, Amy Symstad
Metadata Contact :
Amy Symstad
Publisher :
U.S. Geological Survey
Distributor :
U.S. Geological Survey - ScienceBase

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BADL_ABAM_LandUseHistory.gdb.zip
“Badlands National Park land use history geospatial data”
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Purpose

The purpose of this data set is to provide a publicly available, spatially-referenced record of known land use and disturbance within Badlands National Park, South Dakota. Information presented here can be used by a wide range of users for a variety of purposes such as evaluating current vegetation communities or soil characteristics in an area.

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