20030811 17481300 FALSE 20031112 10151500 20031113 15251700 {939A4BFF-4482-45A4-9718-6B94D844894A} Microsoft Windows 2000 Version 5.1 (Build 2600) Service Pack 1; ESRI ArcCatalog 8.3.0.800 en This dataset contains WCA boundaries (a subset of the 1999 Conservation and Recreation Lands dataset). This database was compiled to support the planning of a statewide greenways system by the Florida Greenways Commission and may not be suitable for other purposes. This is not a highly accurate database and it is inappropriate to utilize this coverage in Site Planning or other large scale modeling or analysis projects. 1999 wca_line_utm vector digital data http://map.fgdl.org/download/ Florida Natural Areas Inventory University of Florida Geoplan Center, Florida Geographic Data Library (FGDL) The original Conservation and Recreation Lands dataset can be downloaded from the FGDL website (http://map.fgdl.org/download/) by agreeing to the FGDL's legal disclaimer, selecting statewide themes, and selecting Conservation and Recreation Lands 99. The Water Conservation Areas dataset is a reprojected subset of the Conservation and Recreation Lands 99 dataset. ground condition 1994 1999 Complete Unknown -80.856649 -80.221710 26.679767 25.759336 514375.100831 577438.539839 2849259.115996 2950975.457234 none water conservation areas WCA conservation Florida none THE DATA INCLUDED IN THIS APPLICATION ARE BASED ON INTERPRETATION OF AVAILABLE INFORMATION AND SHOULD NOT BE CONSTRUED AS LEGALLY BINDING. Scale is an important factor in data usage. Certain scale data sets are not suitable for some projects, analysis, or modeling purposes. Please be sure you are using the best available data. 1:24000 scale data sets are recommended for projects that are at the county level. 1:24000 data should NOT be used for high accuracy base mapping such as property parcel boundaries. 1:100000 scale data sets are recommended for projects that are at the multi-county or regional level. 1:250000 scale data sets are recommended for projects that are at the regional or state level or larger. Vector datasets with no defined scale or accuracy should be considered suspect. Make sure you are familiar with your data before using it for projects or analyses. Every effort has been made to supply the user with data documentation. For additional information, see the References section and the Data Source Contact section of this documentation. For more information regarding scale and accuracy, see our web pages at: <http://www.geoplan.ufl.edu/education.html> Some conservation lands straddle water management district boundaries. To facilitate initial database development, the entire polygon representing a particular park, etc. was included in only one of the water management district coverages. Hence, caution should be exercised in generating statistics from a single coverage for areas within a water management district. Similarly, some polygons in the database include both terrestrial and marine areas. Summary statistics for conservation lands within the St. John's River Water Management District and the South Florida Water Management district which were published with the final report of the Fla. Greenways Commission (December 1994) were calculated by subtracting the area of overlap with marine waters (by unioning the coverages with 1:100K DLG hydrography) from the areas calculated for the polygons in the conservation lands coverages. The final report summary statistics for area in aquatic preserves was calculated from the DEP-FMRI aquatic preserves database, not the aquatic preserve polygons found in this version. Shapefile Florida Natural Areas Inventory (FNAI) mailing and physical address

1018 Thomasville Road

Tallahassee FL 32303 USA (850) 224-8207 http://www.fnai.org Created by the University of Florida Geoplan Center and maintained through fall 1999. Maintenance by Florida Natural Areas Inventory began fall 1999. Microsoft Windows 2000 Version 5.1 (Build 2600) Service Pack 1; ESRI ArcCatalog 8.3.0.800 wca_line_utm 514375.100831 577438.539839 2950975.457234 2849259.115996 1 -80.856649 -80.22171 26.679767 25.759336 1 en FGDC Content Standards for Digital Geospatial Metadata FGDC-STD-001-1998 local time Mike Rugge Florida Coastal Everglades LTER Program Manager mailing address

Southeast Environmental Research Center Florida International University University Park, OE 148

Miami FL 33199 USA (305) 348-6054 (305) 348-4096 20031113 http://www.esri.com/metadata/esriprof80.html ESRI Metadata Profile ISO 19115 Geographic Information - Metadata DIS_ESRI1.0 dataset Downloadable Data 0.031 0.031 Florida Coastal Everglades LTER mailing address Miami FL 33199 USA

Southeast Environmental Research Center

Florida International University

University Park, OE 148

(305) 348-6054 Complete accuracy of data sets cannot be guaranteed. All data are made available "as is". The Florida Coastal Everglades LTER shall not be liable for damages resulting from any use or misinterpretation of data sets. Vector Simple Polyline FALSE 20 TRUE FALSE String 20 GCS_WGS_1984 WGS_1984_UTM_Zone_17N coordinate pair meters 0.000256 0.000256 Universal Transverse Mercator 17 0.999600 -81.000000 0.000000 500000.000000 0.000000 D_WGS_1984 WGS_1984 6378137.000000 298.257224 WGS_1984_UTM_Zone_17N 20 wca_line_utm Feature Class 20 FID FID OID 4 0 0 Internal feature number. ESRI Sequential unique whole numbers that are automatically generated. Shape Shape Geometry 0 0 0 Feature geometry. ESRI Coordinates defining the features. FNODE_ FNODE_ Number 9 TNODE_ TNODE_ Number 9 LPOLY_ LPOLY_ Number 9 RPOLY_ RPOLY_ Number 9 LENGTH LENGTH Number 12 Aquatic Preserve Name - Only used for TYPE APR 3 WCA_LINE2_ WCA_LINE2_ Number 9 Aquatic Preserve Land Type: LAND, WETLAND, WATER WCA_LINE_1 WCA_LINE_1 Number 9 Conservation Land Name ALTNAME ALTNAME String 60 Alternative Name for either Aquatic Preserve or Alternative Name for either Aquatic Preserve or Alternative Name for either Aquatic Preserve or Conservation Land TYPE TYPE String 8 Type of Conservation Land CE Conservation Easement ALT_TYPE ALT_TYPE String 8 Type for conservation lands that are multiple type - See type for description of codes NWR National Wildlife Refuge OWNER OWNER String 6 FED Federal Entity that owns or maintains the conservation landUNKUnknown STATUS STATUS String 3 E Existing SOURCE SOURCE Number 2 The source of the digital boundary data or hardcopy map 1 Water Management District Databases ACRES ACRES Number 12 2 Calculated from the polygon area as digitized using the equation Area(m^2)/4046.86. HECTARES HECTARES Number 16 3 Calculated from the polygon area as digitized using the equation Area(m^2)/10000 DESCRIPT DESCRIPT String 50 Description of the Status of conservation land (see Status) LAST_UPDAT LAST_UPDAT Date 8 20031113 Florida Natural Areas Inventory mailing and physical address

1018 Thomasville Road

Tallahassee FL 32303 USA (850) 224-8207 http://www.fnai.org The conservation lands database was initially compiled and standardized from the existing digital GIS databases maintained by each Florida Water Management District. The compiled database was subsequently enhanced at the Geoplan Center by the addition/standardization of attribute data (such as name, type, status, etc.). The Geoplan Center also corrected all boundary and location inaccuracies identified by reviewers. In addition, every effort was made to incorporate boundary changes precipitated by acquisitions and proposals which occurred as late as December 1998. FNAI Florida Geographic Data Library

431 Architecture Building

physical address

PO Box 115706

Gainesville Florida 32611-5706 USA (352) 3920997, Operator http://www.fgdl.org/fgdldocs/document/techsupp.htm 24 hours/day Please visit the web site, <http://www.fgdl.org>, for all questions or concerns. GeoPlan, during the QA/QC process included the following aspects: (1) Projected data to FGDL Albers (2) Set Tolerances to FGDL Standards (3) Set Precision to DOUBLE (4) Added DESCRIPT item based on TYPE FNAI 1:24,000 1994 1999 ground condition Data representing Conservation and Recreation Lands in 1999 FNAI and GeoPlan Center 1999 map FNAI Mike Rugge Florida Coastal Everglades LTER Program Manager mailing address

Southeast Environmental Research Center Florida International University University Park, OE 148

Miami FL 33199 USA (305) 348-6054 (305) 348-4096 Water conservation areas south of Lake Okeechobee were selected from the 1999 Conservation and Recreation Lands dataset and converted to a shapefile using ArcView 3.3. The shapefile was reprojected to UTM, zone 17N, WGS84 using ArcToolbox 8.3. ArcView 3.3, ArcToolbox 8.3 August 2003 Relied on the integrity of the attribute information within the original data layer. The original map scales and sources for much of the boundary data collected by others is unknown, hence the spatial accuracy of any given boundary is not known. 1:250,000 scale maps depicting the database have been reviewed by representatives of each of the water management districts, the Department of Environmental Protection, and several other state and federal agencies cooperating with the Florida Greenways Commission. The unofficial consensus is that the database offers a representation of the boundaries of existing and proposed conservation lands in Florida which is appropriate for regional and statewide planning. The original map scales and sources for much of the boundary data collected by others is unknown, hence the spatial accuracy of any given boundary is not known. 1:250,000 scale maps depicting the database have been reviewed by representatives of each of the water management districts, the Department of Environmental Protection, and several other state and federal agencies cooperating with the Florida Greenways Commission. The unofficial consensus is that the database offers a representation of the boundaries of existing and proposed conservation lands in Florida which is appropriate for regional and statewide planning. Certain node/geometry and topology (GT)-polygon/chain relationships are collected or generated to satisfy topological requirements. Some of these requirements include: chains must begin and end at nodes, chains must connect to each other at nodes, chains do not extend through nodes, left and right GT-polygons are defined for each chain element and are consistent throughout the transfer, and the chains representing the limits of the file (neatline) are free of gaps. The neatline is generated by connecting the four corners of the digital file, as established during initialization of the digital file. All data outside the enclosed region are ignored and all data crossing these geographically straight lines are clipped at the neatline. (Exception: During the QA/QC process all data is examined and if errors are found and corrections are possible, then data is corrected accordingly. This process is documented in the Process_Step.) Data within a specified tolerance of the neatline are snapped to the neatline. Neatline straightening aligns the digitized edges of the digital data with the generated neatline, that is, with the longitude/latitude lines in geographic coordinates. All internal polygons are tested for closure. Certain attributes and/or entities, e.g. closure line, convey data quality information. When information to be encoded in the subfield is known to be not applicable (undefined, not relevant), then the subfield is valued by a string of "9s"; and when the information to be encoded is relevant but unknown (or missing), then the subfield is valued by a string of "9s." Certain node/geometry and topology (GT)-polygon/chain relationships are collected or generated to satisfy topological requirements. Some of these requirements include: chains must begin and end at nodes, chains must connect to each other at nodes, chains do not extend through nodes, left and right GT-polygons are defined for each chain element and are consistent throughout the transfer, and the chains representing the limits of the file (neatline) are free of gaps. The neatline is generated by connecting the four corners of the digital file, as established during initialization of the digital file. All data outside the enclosed region are ignored and all data crossing these geographically straight lines are clipped at the neatline. (Exception: During the QA/QC process all data is examined and if errors are found and corrections are possible, then data is corrected accordingly. This process is documented in the Process_Step.) Data within a specified tolerance of the neatline are snapped to the neatline. Neatline straightening aligns the digitized edges of the digital data with the generated neatline, that is, with the longitude/latitude lines in geographic coordinates. All internal polygons are tested for closure. Certain attributes and/or entities, e.g. closure line, convey data quality information. When information to be encoded in the subfield is known to be not applicable (undefined, not relevant), then the subfield is valued by a string of "9s"; and when the information to be encoded is relevant but unknown (or missing), then the subfield is valued by a string of "9s."