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Land Economic Inventory (Bordner Survey), Wisconsin 1930s - 1940s

Forest Landscape Ecology Lab, University of Wisconsin-Madison · 1935 Full Details

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Land Economic Inventory (Bordner Survey), Wisconsin 1930s - 1940s
Description
The Forest Landscape Ecology Lab (FLEL) at the University of Wisconsin-Madison has collaborated with the WI State Cartographer's Office (SCO) to digitize and create vector geospatial data from the survey maps published through the Bordner Survey (Wisconsin Land Economic Inventory). These maps give insight to what the landscape of Wisconsin looked like at a time of peak deforestation and land abandonment in addition to how this legacy has impacted the current landscape. Furthermore, these maps offer a tool for future landscape management including but not limited to; shore line changes, erosion, reforestation, and wetland restoration. Included in this geodatabase are: economic natural features (points); land use-land cover (polygons); transportation & water infrastructure (lines).A user guide for this data may be found here:https://docs.google.com/document/d/1WVG-39Kw1Edmsw315vXf-DUWdw2qXEGEBYKpewCkHyw/edit (The user guide is also included as a PDF file with the data upon download.)
Creator
Forest Landscape Ecology Lab, University of Wisconsin-Madison
Temporal Coverage
1935
Access Rights
Public
Format
Geodatabase
Language
English
Date Added
August 28, 2025

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    Forest Landscape Ecology Lab, University of Wisconsin-Madison (n.d.). Land Economic Inventory (Bordner Survey), Wisconsin 1930s - 1940s. . (dataset)
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