Historical Woodland Density of the Conterminous United States, 1873 (Feature Layer)
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posted on 2024-10-31, 02:35authored byU.S. Forest Service
This dataset includes polygons with a minimum of 40 acres of woodlands per square mile as depicted in William H. Brewer�s 1873 map of woodland density and covers the conterminous United States. Each polygon has been labeled with the density category (1-5) depicted on the original map. This dataset was created by georeferencing a scanned version of the source map and by heads-up digitizing each woodland density polygon.
This record was taken from the USDA Enterprise Data Inventory that feeds into the https://data.gov catalog. Data for this record includes the following resources: