Metadata for Montana Fish, Wildlife & Parks Fishing Access Site Noxious Weed Locations (2005-2007)
Identification Information:
Citation:
Originator: Montana Fish, Wildlife & Parks
Originator: Montana Department of Agriculture
Publication date: March 17, 2008
Title:
Montana Fish, Wildlife & Parks Fishing Access Site Noxious Weed Locations (2005-2007)

Abstract:
Noxious weed locations on Montana Fish, Wildlife & Parks' (FWP) fishing access sites based on GPS inventories conducted by Montana Department of Agriculture in the summers of 2005, 2006, and 2007.
Purpose:
Display and anlaysis of noxious weed infestations on fishing access sites managed by Montana Fish, Wildilfe & Parks.

Time period of content:
Beginning date: June 2005
Ending date: September 2007
Currentness reference: ground condition
Status:
Progress: Complete
Maintenance and update frequency: None planned
Access constraints: NONE
Use constraints:
Users must assume responsibility to determine the usability of this data for their purposes. This data set is provided "as is" without warranty of any kind. Montana Fish, Wildlife & Parks (FWP) makes no representations or warranties whatsoever with respect to the accuracy or completeness of this data set and assumes no responsibility for the suitability of this data set for a particular purpose. FWP will not be liable for any damages incurred as a result of errors in this data set.

Noxious weeds may occur on other FWP lands not currently depicted in this layer, or in areas where inventories have not been conducted.
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Data Quality Information:
Lineage:

Process step:
Dept of Ag exported GPS waypoints to shapefile format using ExpertGPS monthly during June, July, August of 2005 and 2006.

FWP merged shapefiles into one feature class, cleaned up species misspellings, and joined additional fields from the FWP Lands tabular database.
Process date: November 1, 2007
Process step: Repeated above process.
Process date: February 22, 2008
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Spatial Data Organization Information:
Point and vector object information:
ESRI feature type: Point
ESRI feature count: 4876
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Spatial Reference Information:
Horizontal coordinate system definition:
Projected coordinate system name: NAD_1983_Lambert_Conformal_Conic
Map projection:
Map projection name: Lambert Conformal Conic
Lambert conformal conic:
Lambert Conformal Conic
Standard parallel: 45.000000
Standard parallel: 49.000000
Longitude of central meridian: -109.500000
Latitude of projection origin: 44.250000
False easting: 600000.000000
False northing: 0.000000
Planar distance units: meters
Geodetic model:
Horizontal datum name: North American Datum of 1983
Ellipsoid name: Geodetic Reference System 80
Semi-major axis: 6378137.000000
Denominator of flattening ratio: 298.257222
Altitude system definition:
Altitude resolution: 0.000010
Altitude encoding method:
Explicit elevation coordinate included with horizontal coordinates
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Entity and Attribute Information:
Entity type label: FASWeeds
Entity count: 4876

Attribute label: OBJECTID
Attribute definition: Internal feature number.
Attribute domain:
Sequential unique whole numbers that are automatically generated.

Attribute label: Shape
Attribute definition: Feature geometry.
Attribute domain: Coordinates defining the features.

Attribute label: LandsName
Attribute definition:
FWP's site name as maintained in Lands Section Oracle database.

Attribute label: FAS
Attribute definition:
Fishing access site name as known by the public. If the site does not have a value for FAS it is not managed for recreation for the public and may not have public access.

Attribute label: SiteID
Attribute definition:
Unique ID associated with the site. SiteID is assigned by the FWP Lands Section and can be used to relate to additional site information in the Lands Section's tabular database.

Attribute label: File4
Attribute definition:
First four digits of FILENUM field maintained in the FWP Lands Section Oracle database.

Attribute label: DateObserved
Attribute definition: Date weed infestation inventory data was collected with GPS.

Attribute label: InventoryID
Attribute definition:
Unique ID for observation for that year. Relates to InventoryID in MS Access database.

Attribute label: Species
Attribute definition: Weed Species


Attribute
Value		 Definition of
Attribute Value
CADDR Whitetop (hoary cress)
CENDI Diffuse Knapweed
CENMA Spotted Knapweed
CENRE Russian Knapweed
CENSO Yellow Starthistle
CHOJU Rush Skeletonweed
CHYLE Oxeye Daisy
CHYVU Common Tansy
CIRAR Canada Thistle
CJNVU Common Crupina
CONAR Field Bindweed
CYWOF Hounds Tongue
EPHES Leafy Spurge
HIEAU Orange Hawkweed
HIECA Meadow hawkweed complex
HYPPE St. Johnswort (goatweed)
IRIPS Yellow Iris
ISATI Dyer's Woad
LEPLA Perennial Pepperweed
LINDA Dalmation Toadflax
LINVU Yellow Toadflax
LYTSA Purple Loosestrife
MYRSP Eurasian Watermilfoil
PTLRC Sulfur Cinquefoil
RANAC Tall Buttercup
SENJA Tansy Ragwort
TAARA Salt Cedar
UNK Unknown

Attribute label: SpeciesFull
Attribute definition: Common name of weed species.

Attribute label: InfestSize
Attribute definition: Acres of infestation.


Attribute
Value		 Definition of
Attribute Value
X < .1 acre
T .1 to 1 acre
S 1 to 5 acres
P More than 5 acres

Attribute label: WaypointID
Attribute definition: GPS Waypoint ID

Attribute label: PictureID
Attribute definition: PictureID

Attribute label: Notes
Attribute definition: Observer notes.

Attribute label: GIS_ObjectID
Attribute definition:
Unique identifier used to relate back to the MS Access tabular data. Based on ObjectID.

Attribute label: GIS_Comment
Attribute definition: Comments made by FWP's GIS staff.
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Distribution Information:
Distributor:
Lydia Bailey
GIS & Natural Resource Data Manager
Montana Fish, Wildlife & Parks
1420 East 6th Ave
PO Box 200701
Helena, MT 59620-0701


Telephone: 406-444-5365
E-Mail: lbailey@mt.gov


Resource description: Downloadable Data



Standard order process:
Digital form:
Format name: ESRI Shapefile
Online option:
http://fwp.mt.gov/insidefwp/gis/shapefiles/fasweeds.zip
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Metadata Reference Information:
Metadata date: 03/17/2008
Metadata contact:
Lydia Bailey
GIS & Natural Resource Data Manager
Montana Fish, Wildlife & Parks
1420 East 6th Ave
PO Box 200701
Helena, MT 59620-0701


Telephone: 406-444-5365
E-Mail: lbailey@mt.gov


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