DOCUMENTATION FOR TRAVCORR                                              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:   TRAVCORR        
Path:                              
Description:     black bear travel corridors, Stratton Vt. vicinity          
Feature:         LINK   
Status:           2
Available:         /  /  

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

DATA AUTOMATION
David Greenewalt                        
Windham Regional Commission                       
139 Main Street, Suite 505                        
Brattleboro, VT  05301                  

GEOGRAPHIC AREA and TILE STRUCTURE
Tile Structure:  NONE         (Avg.size: 37kB)
Area: Stratton, Vt. vicinity                                      

DATA SOURCE & FORMAT
Source Map:   Vt. ANR mapping on USGS topographic maps                    
Source Date:  1984,1986                      Data Format: pcARC/INFO          
Source Scale: 1:25000                        Projection : state plane meters            
Source Media: paper                                    Datum: NAD 1927  
SOURCE DESCRIPTION
  Source maps were obtained from Vermont Agency of Natural Resources.  ANR 
personnel indicated corridors on 4 USGS topographic maps.                  

ACCURACY & TOLERANCES
Resolution:                               
Fuzzy:     5.000      Dangle:  0.000
FEATURE ACCURACY (in meters)
  Unknown.                                                                 

DATA AUTOMATION
Dates:  December 1992                   Software: pcArcEdit                     
Device: Numonics 2000 (Resolution: 0.001)
Maximum RMS:     .005                     
Update Schedule: probably December 2000                            
Last Update:     10/20/00




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QUALITY CONTROL

  Data reviewed by ANR staff (Forrest Hammond, biologist for the Department
of Fish and Wildlife, Springfield Regional Office).                        

DESCRIPTION, FEATURE DEFINITION, METHODOLOGY, etc.
  This coverage contains the location of black bear travel corridors in the
vicinity of Stratton, Vermont.  These corridors were identified by Vermont 
Agency of Natural Resources personnel on topographic maps and then         
digitized by WRC GIS staff in December of 1992 and updated in October 2000.
  Black bear travel corridors, according to Forrest Hammond, biologist with
the Vermont Department of Fish and Wildlife, are forested habitats that are
regionally important and are used by large numbers of bears to access      
critical seasonal foods or to link bear ranges and sub-populations.  Travel
corridors are comprised of bear travel routes and may include one or more  
road crossing areas.                                                       
  This coverage contains data for corridors along Route 100 near the       
Stratton/Dover/Wardsboro line, and in the area between Mundel and Sage Hill
and Stratton Mountain near the Stratton/Jamaica line.                      
  Note:  for projects with Act 250 jurisdiction, the Vermont Department of 
Fish and Wildlife attempts to protect travel corridors and habitat along   
segments of highway within travel corridors.  Area protected is 1/4 to 1/2 
mile along each side of the travel route and 800 feet deep on both sides of
the highway.                                                               

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

POLYGON ATTRIBUTE DESCRIPTIONS
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Date of Entry:   10/30/00
Attribute Item Name: NAME              (C  20  0)
Description:  name of travel corridor (not an official designation)       
Source: ANR staff


ARC ATTRIBUTE DESCRIPTIONS
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Date of Entry:   10/20/00
Attribute Item Name: TYPE              (N   1  0)
Description:  type of line                                                
Source: WRC
ATTRIBUTE DESCRIPTION
  Attribute used to draw lines bordering travel corridors.  Corridors are  
"open ended" but have a somewhat defined width to them.  A TYPE of 1       
defines the corridors side, and should be displayed on a map.  A TYPE of 2 
is a closure arc at the end of the corridor and should not be drawn on a   
map.