VT Biodiversity Project - Core Habitats

(<a href='https://maps.vcgi.vermont.gov/gisdata/metadata/EcologicHabitat_COREHAB.htm' rel='nofollow ugc' target='_blank'>Link to Metadata</a>) This is a raster dataset depicting those areas in Vermont which are at least 100 meters distant from a zone of human disturbance. Grid cells are 26.779 meters. Human disturbance zones were defined as developed, industrial, or residential areas, agricultural openings, and roads. Wetlands, open water, rock outcrops/talus slopes, and other natural openings, and areas identified in imagery as having recently undergone timber harvesting, were considered low-disturbance non-forest--they were not used to generate disturbance edges, nor were they removed from the "core habitat" dataset.