Dungeness River Area Vegetation, 1858

Metadata:

• Identification_Information
• Data_Quality_Information
• Spatial_Data_Organization_Information
• Spatial_Reference_Information
• Entity_and_Attribute_Information
• Distribution_Information
• Metadata_Reference_Information

Identification_Information:

Citation:

Citation_Information:

Originator: Penelope Jennings Eckert

Publication_Date: 19980604

Title: Dungeness River Area Vegetation, 1858

Geospatial_Data_Presentation_Form: Map

Publication_Information:

Publication_Place: University of Washington, Seattle, WA, USA

Publisher: University of Washington

Other_Citation_Details:

This coverage was produced as part of Penelope Eckert's PhD thesis for the University of Washington College of Forest Resources, Social Sciences

Online_Linkage:

http://www.onrc.washington.edu/pub/clearinghouse/penelope/claldata/landcover/veg1859.e00.gz

Description:

Abstract:

This coverage is a vegetation map of the lower Dungeness river watershed, northern Olympic peninsula, Washington, USA. The vegetation map for 1858 was developed based on notes and maps created for a General Land Office survey of the north Olympic peninsula. The original canvas maps are available at the federal government's Sandpoint Archives, while the maps and notes are available on microfiche from the Bureau of Land Management, Portland. The surveyors were not interested in classifying land, per se, so a land cover/vegetation coverage was developed based on the kinds of things the surveyors said about the vegetation in their notes.

Purpose:

The purpose of this coverage is to be an intermediate step in the developement of a land cover map for the study area. Refer to the land cover map for this same year.

Supplemental_Information:

More detailed information about these coverages is available in Penelope Eckert's PhD Thesis, University of Washington, College of Forest Resources, June 1998.

Time_Period_of_Content:

Time_Period_Information:

Range_of_Dates/Times:

Beginning_Date: 18580101

Ending_Date: 18581231

Currentness_Reference: Ground Condition

Status:

Progress: Complete

Maintenance_and_Update_Frequency: None Planned

 

 
 
 
 
 

Spatial_Domain:

Bounding_Coordinates:

West_Bounding_Coordinate: -123.2917

East_Bounding_Coordinate: -123.0333

North_Bounding_Coordinate: 48.16667

South_Bounding_Coordinate: 48.01667

Keywords:

Theme:

Theme_Keyword_Thesaurus: None

Theme_Keyword: vegetation

Theme_Keyword: prairie

Theme_Keyword: field (cultivated or pasture)

Theme_Keyword: grass swamp

Theme_Keyword: brush swamp

Theme_Keyword: alder/cedar swamp

Theme_Keyword: crabapple swamp

Theme_Keyword: burned conifers

Theme_Keyword: oak-woodland

Theme_Keyword: conifer forest

Theme_Keyword: beach

Place:

Place_Keyword_Thesaurus: None

Place_Keyword: Olympic peninsula

Place_Keyword: Dungeness river watershed

Place_Keyword: Dungeness river

Place_Keyword: Washington

Place_Keyword: Sequim

Place_Keyword: Carlsborg

Access_Constraints: None

Use_Constraints: None

Point_of_Contact:

Contact_Information:

Contact_Person_Primary:

Contact_Person: Penelope Jennings Eckert

Contact_Address:

Address_Type: Mailing Address

Address:

Box 352100, College of Forest Resources,

University of Washington

City: Seattle

State_or_Province: WA

Postal_Code: 98195

Country: USA

Contact_Voice_Telephone: (206) 543-0102

Contact_Electronic_Mail_Address: peckert@fwenc.com

Native_Data_Set_Environment: UNIX-ARC/INFO

Data_Quality_Information:

Attribute_Accuracy:

Attribute_Accuracy_Report:

In relation to attribute accuracy several assumptions were made in order to use the surveyor's maps and notes to produce a vegetation map. 1) To develop a vegetation map for 1858 it was necessary to rely on the surveyors notes on changes in vegetation along the section lines which they were mapping. These changes in vegetation were correlated with similar changes along parallel section lines. Assumptions that burned areas in the forest and swamps were large and contiguous led to the connecting of points indicating burns and swamps using topography and creek locations as guides. This does not take into account changes in vegetation between section lines which the surveyors did not observe. These assumptions are carried over into the land cover map. 2) Assumption that current vegetative associations identified for the hemlock forest type in this century are relevant for identification of vegetation from 140 years ago. Pollen studies tend to support this assumption. 3) Assumption that species names were consistent and identifiable. Surveyors identified species by common name, and although many are still in use today, some are quite different and have no modern equivalent. 4) Descriptions that the surveyors noted in their field books corresponded to the surrounding vegetation.

Logical_Consistency_Report:

Coverage is topologically clean. Test performed using ArcInfo 7.1

Completeness_Report:

For the 1858 survey maps on which this coverage is based the surveyors were required to map township boundaries, section boundaries, coastlines, meander lines of rivers, and to note the presence of dwellings, fences, and fields. In addition, they were required to make sufficient note of vegetation, soils, and topography. The original maps showed prairies, fields, abrupt changes in topography and dwellings. To develop a vegetation map for 1858 it was necessary to rely on both these maps and the surveyors notes on changes in vegetation along the section lines which they were mapping. These changes in vegetation were correlated with similar changes along parallel section lines. Assumptions that burned areas in the forest and swamps were large and contiguous led to the connecting of points along section lines indicating burns and swamps by using topography and creek locations as guides. This does not take into account changes in vegetation between section lines which the surveyors did not observe.

Positional_Accuracy:

Horizontal_Positional_Accuracy:

Horizontal_Positional_Accuracy_Report: none

Vertical_Positional_Accuracy:

Vertical_Positional_Accuracy_Report: none

Lineage:

Source_Information:

Source_Citation:

Citation_Information:

Originator: General Land Office, US government

Publication_Date: 1863

Title:

General Land Office Survey Maps and Notes, Northern Olympic Peninsula, 1858

Geospatial_Data_Presentation_Form: Map

Other_Citation_Details:

The original canvas maps are available at the federal government's Sandpoint Archives, while the maps and notes are available on microfiche from the Bureau of Land Management, Portland.

Type_of_Source_Media: Paper

Source_Time_Period_of_Content:

Time_Period_Information:

Range_of_Dates/Times:

Beginning_Date: 18580101

Ending_Date: 18581231

Source_Currentness_Reference: Ground Condition

Source_Citation_Abbreviation: 1858 General Land Office Survey Maps

Source_Contribution:

These maps were used to develop the vegetation and land cover coverages for 1858.

Process_Step:

Process_Description:

For the 1858 survey maps on which this coverage is based the surveyors were required to map township boundaries, section boundaries, coastlines, meander lines of rivers, and to note the presence of dwellings, fences, and fields. In addition, they were required to make sufficient note of vegetation, soils, and topography. The original maps showed prairies, fields, abrupt changes in topography and dwellings. To develop a vegetation map for 1858 it was necessary to rely on both these maps and the surveyors notes on changes in vegetation along the section lines which they were mapping. These changes in vegetation were correlated with similar changes along parallel section lines. Assumptions that burned areas in the forest and swamps were large and contiguous led to the connecting of points along section lines indicating burns and swamps by using topography and creek locations as guides. This does not take into account changes in vegetation between section lines which the surveyors did not observe. The survey maps supplemented with the field note were digitized into a vegetation coverage.

Source_Used_Citation_Abbreviation: 1858 General Land Office Survey Maps

Process_Date: Unknown

Process_Contact:

Contact_Information:

Contact_Person_Primary:

Contact_Person: Penelope Jennings Eckert

Contact_Address:

Address_Type: Mailing Address

Address:

Box 352100, College of Forest Resources,

University of Washington

City: Seattle

State_or_Province: WA

Postal_Code: 98195

Country: USA

Contact_Voice_Telephone: (206) 543-0102

Contact_Electronic_Mail_Address: peckert@fwenc.com

Spatial_Data_Organization_Information:

Indirect_Spatial_Reference: Dungeness River Watershed

Direct_Spatial_Reference_Method: Vector

Point_and_Vector_Object_Information:

SDTS_Terms_Description:

SDTS_Point_and_Vector_Object_Type: G-Polygon

Point_and_Vector_Object_Count: 68

SDTS_Point_and_Vector_Object_Type: Label Point

Point_and_Vector_Object_Count: 67

SDTS_Point_and_Vector_Object_Type: Node, Planar Graph

Point_and_Vector_Object_Count: 284

SDTS_Point_and_Vector_Object_Type: Complete Chain

Point_and_Vector_Object_Count: 326

Spatial_Reference_Information:

Horizontal_Coordinate_System_Definition:

Planar:

Grid_Coordinate_System:

Grid_Coordinate_System_Name: State Plane Coordinate System 1927

State_Plane_Coordinate_System:

SPCS_Zone_Identifier: 5601

Lambert_Conformal_Conic:

Standard_Parallel: 47.5

Standard_Parallel: 48.7333

Longitude_of_Central_Meridian: 120.8333

Latitude_of_Projection_Origin: 47

False_Easting: 500000

False_Northing: 0

Geodetic_Model:

Horizontal_Datum_Name: North American Datum of 1927

Ellipsoid_Name: Clarke 1866

Semi-major_Axis: 6378206.4

Denominator_of_Flattening_Ratio: 294.98

Entity_and_Attribute_Information:

Detailed_Description:

Entity_Type:

Entity_Type_Label: Vegetation

Entity_Type_Definition:

Vegetation types for study area based on General Land Survey maps.

Entity_Type_Definition_Source:

PhD thesis, The Social Construction of a Watershed: Changing Rights and Changing Land, Penelope Jennings Eckert, June 1998, University of Washington, School of Forestry

Attribute:

Attribute_Label: veg_code

Attribute_Definition: vegetation class

Attribute_Definition_Source:

PhD thesis, The Social Construction of a Watershed: Changing Rights and Changing Land, Penelope Jennings Eckert, June 1998, University of Washington, School of Forestry

Attribute_Domain_Values:

Enumerated_Domain:

Enumerated_Domain_Value: 1

Enumerated_Domain_Value_Definition: prairie

Enumerated_Domain_Value_Definition_Source: PhD Thesis, Penelope Eckert, UW, Forestry

Attribute_Domain_Values:

Enumerated_Domain:

Enumerated_Domain_Value: 2

Enumerated_Domain_Value_Definition: field (cultivated or pasture)

Enumerated_Domain_Value_Definition_Source: PhD Thesis, Penelope Eckert, UW, Forestry

Attribute_Domain_Values:

Enumerated_Domain:

Enumerated_Domain_Value: 3

Enumerated_Domain_Value_Definition: grass swamp

Enumerated_Domain_Value_Definition_Source: PhD Thesis, Penelope Eckert, UW, Forestry

Attribute_Domain_Values:

Enumerated_Domain:

Enumerated_Domain_Value: 4

Enumerated_Domain_Value_Definition: brush swamp

Enumerated_Domain_Value_Definition_Source: PhD Thesis, Penelope Eckert, UW, Forestry

Attribute_Domain_Values:

Enumerated_Domain:

Enumerated_Domain_Value: 5

Enumerated_Domain_Value_Definition: alder/cedar swamp

Enumerated_Domain_Value_Definition_Source: PhD Thesis, Penelope Eckert, UW, Forestry

Attribute_Domain_Values:

Enumerated_Domain:

Enumerated_Domain_Value: 6

Enumerated_Domain_Value_Definition: crabapple swamp

Enumerated_Domain_Value_Definition_Source: PhD Thesis, Penelope Eckert, UW, Forestry

Attribute_Domain_Values:

Enumerated_Domain:

Enumerated_Domain_Value: 7

Enumerated_Domain_Value_Definition: burned conifers

Enumerated_Domain_Value_Definition_Source: PhD Thesis, Penelope Eckert, UW, Forestry

Attribute_Domain_Values:

Enumerated_Domain:

Enumerated_Domain_Value: 8

Enumerated_Domain_Value_Definition: oak-woodland

Enumerated_Domain_Value_Definition_Source: PhD Thesis, Penelope Eckert, UW, Forestry

Attribute_Domain_Values:

Enumerated_Domain:

Enumerated_Domain_Value: 9

Enumerated_Domain_Value_Definition: conifer forest

Enumerated_Domain_Value_Definition_Source: PhD Thesis, Penelope Eckert, UW, Forestry

Attribute_Domain_Values:

Enumerated_Domain:

Enumerated_Domain_Value: 10

Enumerated_Domain_Value_Definition: unmapped

Enumerated_Domain_Value_Definition_Source: PhD Thesis, Penelope Eckert, UW, Forestry

Attribute_Domain_Values:

Enumerated_Domain:

Enumerated_Domain_Value: 11

Enumerated_Domain_Value_Definition: beach

Enumerated_Domain_Value_Definition_Source: PhD thesis, Penelope Eckert, UW, Forestry

Distribution_Information:

Distributor:

Contact_Information:

Contact_Organization_Primary:

Contact_Organization: Olympic Natural Resources Center

Contact_Position: GIS Specialist

Contact_Address:

Address_Type: Mailing Address

Address: PO Box 1628

City: Forks

State_or_Province: WA

Postal_Code: 98331

Country: USA

Contact_Voice_Telephone: 360.374.3220 x258

Contact_Facsimile_Telephone: 3603743336

Contact_Electronic_Mail_Address: onrc@u.washington.edu

Hours_of_Service: M-F 8-5

Contact_Instructions: Email preferred

Resource_Description: dataset as known by distributor: veg1858

Distribution_Liability:

The Olympic Natural Resource Center cannot assure the reliability or suitability of this information for a particular purpose. Original data elements were compiled from various sources. Spatial information may not meet National Mapping Accuracy Standards. This information may be updated, corrected, or otherwise modified without notification. For additional information about this data contact the Olympic Natural Resource Center.

Standard_Order_Process:

Digital_Form:

Digital_Transfer_Information:

Format_Name: ARCE

Format_Version_Number: 7.1

Digital_Transfer_Option:

Online_Option:

Computer_Contact_Information:

Network_Address:

Network_Resource_Name:

http://www.onrc.washington.edu/pub/clearinghouse/penelope/claldata/landcover/veg1859.e00.gz

Fees: None

Metadata_Reference_Information:

Metadata_Date: 19981120

Metadata_Review_Date: 19981120

Metadata_Contact:

Contact_Information:

Contact_Organization_Primary:

Contact_Organization: Olympic Natural Resources Center

Contact_Position: GIS Specialist

Contact_Address:

Address_Type: Mailing Address

Address: PO Box 1628

City: Forks

State_or_Province: WA

Postal_Code: 98331

Country: USA

Contact_Voice_Telephone: 360.374.3220 x258

Contact_Facsimile_Telephone: 3603743336

Contact_Electronic_Mail_Address: onrc@u.washington.edu

Hours_of_Service: M-F 8-5

Contact_Instructions: Email preferred

Metadata_Standard_Name:

FGDC Content Standards For Digital Geospatial Metadata

Metadata_Standard_Version: June 8, 1994