This dataset contains wood stork nesting colonies active in Florida from 2008 to 2017. This dataset includes activity and counts. This is an update to the woodstork_nests_2014 layer.
This dataset was developed for use by US Fish and Wildlife Service staff to construct a graphic representation of wood stork nesting colony locations in the State of Florida active from 2008 to 2017 as recorded in surveys.
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GeoPlan relied on the integrity of the attribute information within the original data.
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.
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
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The GeoPlan Center took the following steps during the QA/QC process: - Downloaded the dataset from USFWS on 6/18/2018 using this link: https://www.fws.gov/northflorida/WoodStorks/wood-storks.htm (original dataset in shapefile format and in the GCS North American 1983 geographic coordinate system). - Dataset projected into the FGDL Albers HPGN projection using NAD_1983_To_HARN_Florida. - NOTE: when projecting, spatial changes were seen in point locations ranging from about 0.01 meters to 0.5 meters. - DESCRIPT field added based on the NAME field. Any records with no data in the NAME field had their DESCRIPT field calculated as 'NO DESCRIPT AVAILABLE'. - FGDLAQDATE field added based on the date the dataset was downloaded from source. - The longest record for each field was found and field character lengths were shortened to the appropriate shortest length possible. - Uppercased fields and appropriate records in the dataset. - Layer name changed from WOST_ColoniesActive_2008_2017_FL.shp to woodstork_nests_2017.shp.
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