DOCUMENTATION FOR BEARROAD                                              10/30/00
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COMPREHENSIVE COVERAGE DESCRIPTION
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DATA LAYER SUMMARY
Date of Entry:   10/20/00
Coverage Name:   BEARROAD        
Path:                              
Description:     black bear road crossing areas, Town of Stratton, Vt.       
Feature:         LINE   
Status:           2
Available:         /  /  

DATA MANAGER
Jeff Nugent                             
Windham Regional Commission             
139 Main Street, Suite 505              
Brattleboro, VT  05301                  
802-257-4547    

DATA AUTOMATION
Jeff Nugent                             
Windham Regional Commission                       
139 Main Street                                   
Brattleboro, VT  05301                  

GEOGRAPHIC AREA and TILE STRUCTURE
Tile Structure:  NONE         (Avg.size: 0kB)
Area: Town of Stratton, Vt.                                       

DATA SOURCE & FORMAT
Source Map:   Vt. ANR mapping, VGIS base data                             
Source Date:  1998                           Data Format: pcArc/Info          
Source Scale: 1:5000                         Projection : state plane meters            
Source Media: digital                                  Datum: NAD 1927  
SOURCE DESCRIPTION
  Data developed by selecting road segments extracted from VGIS road       
centerline data based upon input from ANR Department of Fish and Wildlife  
biologist Forrest Hammond.                                                 

ACCURACY & TOLERANCES
Resolution:                               
Fuzzy:     0.000      Dangle:  0.000
FEATURE ACCURACY (in meters)
  The data should accurately reflect road segments frequently crossed by   
bears as defined by Vermont Agency of Natural Resources.                   

DATA AUTOMATION
Dates:  2000                            Software: n/a                           
Device: n/a (Resolution: 0.000)
Maximum RMS:                              
Update Schedule: none planned                                      
Last Update:     10/20/00




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QUALITY CONTROL

  Data reviewed by ANR Department of Fish and Wildlife biologist Forrest   
Hammond.                                                                   

DESCRIPTION, FEATURE DEFINITION, METHODOLOGY, etc.
  This coverage contains "black bear road crossing areas:" road segments   
frequently crossed by bears in the Town of Stratton, Vermont.  These data  
were developed with the assistance of Forrest Hammond, biologist with the  
Springfield office of the Vermont Department of Fish and Wildlife.         
  A somewhat similar data set was developed by Cartographic Technologies,  
Inc. for the Town of Stratton in 1998, using input from Forrest Hammond and
from Bill Jewell, a biologist working for the Town of Stratton.  That data 
set was termed "Significant Bear Areas" a polygon coverage showing areas   
within 400 meters of these road segments.                                  
  This coverage was created by using the 1998 coverage to clip roads data, 
and then was updated based upon new information from Forrest Hammond.      
Hammond felt that it was best to simply represent the road segments instead
of trying to define an area surrounding the road as a "significant bear    
area."                                                                     
  Black bear road crossing areas are segments of highways within bear range
that have the physical characteristics to be preferred crossing sites for  
multiple bears.  These crossing sites may, or may not, be within recognized
bear travel corridors, but their importance to the population is heightened
if they occur within travel corridors where suitable crossing sites are    
limited by terrain features and/or human developments.                     

LIMITS ON DATA USE & INTERPRETATION
  These data are for general planning purposes only.                       

POLYGON ATTRIBUTE DESCRIPTIONS:    NONE.

ARC ATTRIBUTE DESCRIPTIONS:    NONE.

ANNOTATION DESCRIPTION:    NONE.

COVERAGE HISTORY & DEVELOPMENT DESCRIPTION:    NONE.

COVERAGE UPDATE DOCUMENTATION:    NONE.