FLORIDA GEOGRAPHIC DATA LIBRARY DOCUMENTATION

TITLE: Gopher Tortoise Relocation Permit Recipient Sites in Florida - August 2008

Geodataset Name:       GOPHER_TORTOISE_AUG08
Geodataset Type:       SHAPEFILE
Geodataset Feature:    Point
Feature Count:         90
GENERAL DESCRIPTION:
This dataset is a point representation of the Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission Gopher Tortoise standard tortoise relocation permit recipient sites. The standard tortoise relocation permit is available for development projects which require the relocation of more than five tortoises on-site or relocation of any number of tortoises off-site. Off-site relocation of tortoises may require testing of tortoises for Upper Respiratory Tract Disease (URTD) at the discretion of the recipient site landowner.
DATA SOURCE(S):                    Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission-Fish and Wildlife Research Institute
SCALE OF ORIGINAL SOURCE MAPS:     Unknown
GEODATASET EXTENT:                 State of Florida
PUBLICATION DATE: 200808 TIME PERIOD OF CONTENT: 200808 DOWNLOAD LINK: http://www.fgdl.org/metadataexplorer/explorer.jsp

FEATURE ATTRIBUTE TABLES:

Datafile Name: GOPHER_TORTOISE_AUG08.DBF
ITEM NAME WIDTH TYPE
OBJECTID
4 OID
Shape
4 Geometry
SiteName
50 String
GTCapacity
2 SmallInteger
GTPresent
2 SmallInteger
Status
50 String
GTPossible
2 SmallInteger
DESCRIPT
47 String
FGDLAQDATE
36 Date
AUTOID
4 Integer

FEATURE ATTRIBUTE TABLES CODES AND VALUES:

Item
Item Description
OBJECTID Internal feature number.

Shape Feature geometry.

SiteName Name of Major Recipient Site

GTCapacity Total number of Gopher Tortoise the site can accept

GTPresent The current number of Gopher Tortoise present

Status Current status of the site
Open = Site is currently accepting Gopher Tortoise without restriction

Limited Capacity = Site is currently accepting Gopher Tortoise without restriction but total capacity is limited

Exclusive to one firm = Site is only available to accept Gopher Tortoise from one firm


GTPossible The number of Gopher Tortoise the site can still receive

DESCRIPT FGDL added field based on SITENAME

FGDLAQDATE FGDL added field based on date downloaded from source

AUTOID Unique ID added by GeoPlan


USER NOTES:
This data is provided 'as is'. GeoPlan relied on the integrity
of the original data layer's topology
This data is provided 'as is' by GeoPlan and is complete to our
knowledge.
GeoPlan relied on the integrity of the attribute information within
the original data.

To identify the locations of standard tortoise relocation recipient sites.

This data is provided 'as is' and its horizontal positional accuracy
has not been verified by GeoPlan

This data is provided 'as is' and its vertical positional accuracy
has not been verified by GeoPlan

Acknowledgement of the FWC-FWRI (Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation 
Commission-Fish and Wildlife Research Institute) as the data source would be 
appreciated in any products developed from these data, and such acknowledgment 
as is standard for citation and legal practices for data source is expected by users 
of this data.  Please cite the original metadata when using portions of the record 
to create a similar record of slightly altered data, such as reprojection. If any data 
are modified or adjusted, please share the edited information with FWC. Users 
should be aware that comparison with other data sets for the same area from 
other time periods may be inaccurate due to inconsistencies resulting from 
changes in mapping conventions, data collection, and computer processes 
over time. FWC shall not be liable for improper or incorrect use of this data. 
These data are not legal documents and are not to be used as such.  This 
is not a survey data set and should not be utilized as such. These data are 
not to be used for navigation.

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REFERENCES:
Fish and Wildlife Research Institute:
http://myfwc.com/research/

FWRI Gopher Tortoise Info:
http://myfwc.com/wildlifehabitats/managed/gopher-tortoise/

DATA LINEAGE SUMMARY:
GeoPlan downloaded this data set in shapefile format from the Florida Fish and Wildlife 
Conservation Commission-Fish and Wildlife Research Institute website:
http://ocean.floridamarine.org/TRGIS/Description_Layers_Terrestrial.htm#speciesLoc
on February 14, 2012.When received, the data was in Geographic projection 
Albers NAD 83, Spheroid: GRS 80. The file was projected to FGDL Albers HARN.

- Reprojected data to FGDL Albers HPGN
- Added a DESCRIPT field to attribute table based on SITENAME
- Added a FGDLAQDATE field based on date received from source 
- Renamed shapefile from gopher_tortoise_recip_sites to GOPHER_TORTOISE_AUG08
- Upcased all records in the attribute table
Process Date: 20120214

MAP PROJECTION PARAMETERS:

Projection                          ALBERS
Datum                               HPGN
Units                               METERS
Spheroid                            GRS1980
1st Standard Parallel               24  0  0.000
2nd Standard Parallel               31 30  0.000
Central Meridian                   -84 00  0.000
Latitude of Projection's Origin     24  0  0.000
False Easting (meters)              400000.00000
False Northing (meters)             0.00000

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FWC-FWRI (Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission-Fish and Wildlife Research Institute)
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Fish and Wildlife Research Institute, 100 Eighth Avenue Southeast
St. Petersburg, Florida
33701
727-896-8626

http://ocean.floridamarine.org/TRGIS/Description_Layers_Terrestrial.htm#speciesLoc GISLibrarian@MyFWC.com GIS Data Librarian

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