This GIS data set represents the Wildlife Management Areas administered by the Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission (FWC), and other associated public use areas. These data are intended as a general reference map only. More information on activities permitted in individual areas can be found from the links on FWC's Web site: http://myfwc.com/viewing/recreation/
This GIS data set was created to represent a comprehensive statewide data set of Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission (FWC) Wildlife Management Areas.
Prior to July 1, 2004, the Fish and Wildlife Research Institute (FWRI) was known as the Florida Marine Research Institute (FMRI). The institute name has not been changed in historical data sets or references to work completed by the Florida Marine Research Institute. The institute name has been changed in references to ongoing research, new research, and contact information.
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Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission-Fish and Wildlife Research Institute
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Positional accuracy has not been determined and varies according to linework source. Some data have been edited to align with county parcel data, major roads and Section Township Range (STR) data.
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Spatial and Attribute Information
Spatial and Attribute Information
Spatial and Attribute Information
Chassahowitka WMA, Andrews WMA, Bullfrog Creek Mitigation Park WEA, Crooked Lake WEA, Lake Wales Ridge WEA and Platt Mitigation Park WEA were created by using DOR parcel data, with exceptions below. Contact the individual county property appraisers for questions on accuracy of parcel data. -Bullfrog Creek WMA was created using parcel data, but in the Legal Description it cites the STR line, but the STR line did not exactly match with parcel data, so parcel data was used as default.
Wildlife Management Area boundaries were produced by "heads-up" digitizing from 1999 USGS infrared imagery (DOQQ). In specified cases, Florida Natural Areas Inventory (FNAI) boundaries were used and modified based on the DOQQs. All boundaries are based on information from PDF maps of the Wildlife Management Areas from the FWC Web site: http://myfwc.com/hunting/wma-brochures.
Fish and Wildlife Research Institute
100 Eighth Avenue Southeast
Updated data Fall 2005.
Fish and Wildlife Research Institute
100 Eighth Avenue Southeast
Updated data August 2006.
Fish and Wildlife Research Institute
100 Eighth Avenue Southeast
Updated data August 2007.
Fish and Wildlife Research Institute
100 Eighth Avenue Southeast
Updated data August 2009. WMAs were updated from FNAI and from the Public Hunting Areas Section of the Division of Hunting and Game Management from FWC.
Fish and Wildlife Research Institute
100 Eighth Avenue Southeast
Metadata imported
Fish and Wildlife Research Institute
100 Eighth Avenue Southeast
Added Charles H. Bronson State Forest
Box-R WMA, Judges Cave WEA, Hickey Creek WEA, Chinsegut WEA, Perry Oldenburg WEA, Big Bend WMA, Tenoroc FMA and Apalachee WMA were created by using DOR parcel data, with exceptions below. Contact the individual county property appraisers for questions on accuracy of parcel data. -Judges Cave was created using survey data completed in 2005 by Bannerman Surveyors. -Big Bend was created using heads up digitizing with imagery when needed (when not using parcel data) by the Lead Biologist of the WMA. -Box-R was created using survey information done by Allen Nobles and Associates in November 2003. -Apalachee WMA was partly created with heads up digitizing using aerial photos and using land definitions contained in lease agreement with the US Army Corps of Engineers.
Fish and Wildlife Research Institute
100 Eighth Avenue Southeast
Hickey Creek WEA updated to match survey done by Paul Russo in 2007. Lake Wales Ridge WEA updated to add missing parcel data and to remove TNC parcels.
Fish and Wildlife Research Institute
100 Eighth Avenue Southeast
Janet Butterfield WMA and Florida Keys WEA were created by using DOR parcel data, with exceptions below. Contact the individual county property appraisers for questions on accuracy of parcel data. -Florida Keys WEA new property acquisition (Johnson Tracts) was surveyed on May 6, 2015 by: Bryan Shoaf, Program Consultant, Division of State Land. Fort McCoy WMA removed. Yellow River WMA and Escribano Point were separated out to 2 WMAs. TYPE_SHORT, TYPE, and NAME_SHORT were added or updated.
John C. and Mariana Jones/Hungryland WEA was created by using DOR parcel data and the Lead areas were separated from the Cooperative Areas. Contact the individual county property appraisers for questions on accuracy of parcel data. Escribano Point WMA was received from DEP and the FL SOLARIS data layer. http://geodata.dep.state.fl.us/ Relay, Frog Pond, Twelve Mile and Nassau were deleted. Kicco renamed KICCO. Tates Hell renamed Tate s Hell Lake George WMA-Mary Farms Unit renamed Lake George WMA-Dexter/Mary Farms Unit Crew renamed CREW Fitzhugh Carter Area renamed Fitzhugh Carter Tract Charles H. Bronson State Forest renamed Charles H. Bronson WMA Bond Ranch Property added to Fred C. Babcock-Cecil M. Webb WMA.
Escribano Point WMA updated using the FL SOLARIS data from FDEP (Murphy Tract added). Boundary and Mean High Water Line Survey of Escribano Point, Bureau of Surveying and Mapping, Office File No. 1547.2 Yellow River and Eglin Air Force Base lined up to match surveyed Escribano data. Babcock Webb and Bell Ridge Bell Ridge Longleaf updated using shapefile supplied from HSC (FWC_AREA_11_30_15). These boundaries may not include the newest updates and may have some inaccuracies. Fisheating Creek, Fort White, Joe Budd and Okaloacoochee updated using flma_201509 from FNAI. These boundaries may not include the newest updates and may have some inaccuracies. Joe Budd divided into Lead, Co-Lead and Cooperative. Okaloacoochee divided in to Lead and Cooperative. Dinner Island merged into one polygon. Added Carter Creek parcels to Lake Wales Ridge.
Beavercreek Dam, Juniper Creek, Lower Hillsborough, Marshall Swamp, Weekiwachee and Babcock Ranch Preserve (Cooperative WMAs) added from HGM. PotashCorp WMA was deleted. Hilochee WMA updated using FNAI managed areas shapefile (flma_201601). Split Tates Hell WMA (and Womack Creek) into Lead and Cooperative. Added LaFayette Forest and Bell Ridge Longleaf from DEP Bureau of Surveying and Mapping. Redefined projection created Polygons from Polylines. Box-R updated using FNAI managed areas shapefile (flma_201601).
Merged multiple cooperative areas that were parts of the same WMA or WEA for efficiency and readability. Updated Hungryland (removed private lands). Metadata updated (per David Johnson) to add: The update of these data are an ongoing process. If the Last Updated Date fields are January 2012 or older, the boundaries may have changed. Please verify the boundaries with FWC s Division of Habitat & Species Conservation: Wildlife & Habitat Management Section to the Supplemental Information section.
Fisheating Creek updated from Glades county parcel data and Andrew West from an inherited boundary shapefile. Updated Big Pine tract of Chinsegut WEA per survey created by Bowman Consulting. Old Crystal River Road was removed from shapefile. Caravelle Ranch was updated using surveyed information from SJRWMD and DEP. In places that there were not surveys, county parcel data was used. In some cases, manual changes were made to line up certain overlapping areas. Separated out Lead and Cooperative.
J.W. Corbett WMA was updated using the combination of a boundary shapefile received from the District Biologist and Palm Beach County Parcel data. Updated Rotenberger WMA and Holey Land WMA. Rotenberger s southern boundary was moved to south of L4. Holey Land s southern boundary was moved to north of L5 and the western boundary was moved to the eastern edge of the Miami Canal. The original shapefiles were received from the District Biologist and were based on the Establishment Orders.
Apalachicola River Wildlife and Environmental Area was updated by taking information from FNAI, DSL, DEP LABINS, Gulf and Franklin County Property appraisers and known surveys and creating the boundary. Rotenberger WMA was updated to better match the canals and Everglades and Francis S. Taylor Wildlife Management Area. Holey Land WMA was updated to better match the canals and Everglades and Francis S. Taylor Wildlife Management Area. Lake Wales Ridge WEA was updated by removing an incorrect parcel. Tenoroc FMA was updated using survey and county parcel data. Escribano Point WMA - Eight new parcels were added to the WMA.
GeoPlan downloaded this data in shapefile format from the Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission-Fish and Wildlife Research Institute FTP site on June 21, 2017. The data was received as a shapefile in projection: NAD_1983_2011_Florida_GDL_Albers. The dataset was then projected from NAD_1983_2011_Florida_GDL_Albers to FGDL Albers HARN using NAD_1983_To_HARN_Florida transformation. This is the first time we've received this dataset in NAD_1983_2011_Florida_GDL_Albers. Previously it came in a custom PCS Albers projection. Projecting using the following transformation: nad_1983_harn_to_nad_1983_2011 has introduced a shift between 0.5 and 1 meter. - Reprojected data to FGDL Albers HARN - Added a DESCRIPT field to attribute table based on NAME - Added a FGDLAQDATE field based on date received from source - Renamed shapefile from wildlife_mgt_areas_fl_poly to FWCMAS_APR17 - Deleted fields SHAPE.LEN and SHAPE.AREA - Upcased all records in the attribute table
Dataset copied.
Internal feature number.
ESRI
Feature geometry.
ESRI
Full formal name of managed area.
Producer defined
Formal name of managed area with acronynm.
Producer defined
Type of managed area.
Producer defined
Type of managed area short code.
Producer defined
Air Force Base
Air Force Range
National Wildlife Refuge
Preserve
Public Use Area
Public Waterfowl Area
Small Game Area
Stormwater Treatment Area
Wildlife and Environmental Area
Wildlife Management Area
Name of sub-area within managed area.
Producer defined
Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission (FWC) administrative region that WMA falls within.
Producer defined
Defines FWC as Lead or Cooperative of the managed area.
Producer defined
Year last updated.
Producer defined
Month last updated.
Producer defined
Area of feature in square miles.
Producer defined
FWC website for the managed area.
Producer defined
FGDL added field based on NAME.
GeoPlan
FGDL added field based on date received from source.
GeoPlan
Unique ID added by GeoPlan
GeoPlan
Area in meters
GeoPlan
Perimeter in meters
GeoPlan
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