Section 1	Identification Information
Originator	Minnesota Interagency Information Cooperative
Title	Common Forest Road Inventory
Abstract	This ARC/INFO line covergae contains digital forest road inventory data obtained from public and private groups. The data describes forest roads that are inventoried by the groups involved with this project. The data came from a wide range of sources, depending on the group providing it, including: digitized from paper maps, digitized from aerial photos, GPS receivers, and other methods. Each group has translated their detailed data to this, more general, format.
Purpose	To provide a more complete picture of Minnesota's forest roads for management over ownership boundaries.
Time Period of Content Date	2000
Currentness Reference	Original data source depends on each group.
Progress	In work
Maintenance and Update Frequency	Unknown
Spatial Extent of Data	Forest roads in Northeast MN (St. Louis, Lake, Cook, and Carlton Counties).
Bounding Coordinates
Place Keywords	Minnesota, Northeast
Theme Keywords	Forest Road Inventory, Forest Roads, Interagency Information Cooperative, IIC, Common Format
Theme Keyword Thesaurus
Access Constraints	The MFRC Landscape Program, and participants providing data have direct access. All the data on public agency roads is available upon request. All the data on private roads will only be made available if permission is granted from the private land owner who provided the data.
Use Constraints	This data is intended to be used by the MFRC Landscape Program, and the participants who provided the data, for forest road coordination planning.
Contact Person Information	Chad Skally, GIS Specialist Minnesota Interagency Information Cooperative 500 Lafayette Box 44 St.Paul, MN 55155-4044 Phone: 651-296-0757 FAX: 651-296-5954 E-mail: chad.skally@dnr.state.mn.us
Browse Graphic File Name	none available
Browse Graphic File Description
Associated Data Sets	Detailed forest road inventory data is available from the Minnesota Department of Natural Resources Divsion of Forestry, the Forest Service, and some other groups.
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Attribute Accuracy	Refer to metadata from original forest road databases. Most attribute data is gathered from field inventories, some may from aerial photograph interpretation.
Logical Consistency	Since there data is formed from data from many different groups, there are numerous spatial inaccuracies. This data is not meant for on-the-ground forest management. It is meant to assist in forest management planning.
Completeness
Horizontal Positional Accuracy	Based on data from origanal datasets. A rough estimate is +/- 100 feet.
Vertical Positional Accuracy	Not Applicable
Lineage
Source Scale Denominator
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Native Data Set Environment	ARC/INFO
Geographic Reference for Tabular Data	Line Coverage
Spatial Object Type	Vector
Vendor Specific Object Types	Arcs, Nodes
Tiling Scheme	County
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Horizontal Coordinate Scheme	UTM
Ellipsoid	GRS80
Horizontal Datum	NAD83
Horizontal Units	Meters
Distance Resolution	Unknown
Altitude Datum	Not applicable
Depth Datum	Not applicable
UTM Zone Number	15
Coordinate Offsets or Adjustments	None
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Entity and Attribute Overview	See attribute table definition file.
Entity and Attribute Detailed Citation	forest_rds_table.html
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Publisher	Minnesota Interagency Information Cooperative
Publication Date	Periodically revised
Contact Person Information	Chad Skally, GIS Specialist Minnesota Interagency Information Cooperative 500 Lafayette Road, Box 44 St.Paul, MN 55155-4044 Phone: 651-296-0757 FAX: 651-296-5954 E-mail: chad.skally@dnr.state.mn.us
Distributor's Data Set Identifier
Distribution Liability	The complete data set is not capable of being distributed because it contains private information. Public agency forest road data is available upon request. This data is not meant for any type of field work.
Transfer Format Name	PkZip / Arc Export
Transfer Format Version Number	7.x
Transfer Size	Varies with each county.
Ordering Instructions
Online Linkage	none available
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Metadata Date	12/2000
Contact Person Information	Chad Skally, GIS Specialist Minnesota Interagency Information Cooperative 500 Lafayette Road, Box 44 St.Paul, MN 55155-4044 Phone: 651-296-0757 FAX: 651-296-5954 E-mail: chad.skally@dnr.state.mn.us
Metadata Standard Name	Minnesota Geographic Metadata Guidelines
Metadata Standard Version	1.2
Metadata Standard Online Linkage	http://www.gis.state.mn.us/stds/metadata.htm

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