Futures - Wind/Bighorn River Basins (2010)

This dataset contains the irrigated lands mapped for the Wind/Bighorn River Basin Plan. Irrigated lands were divided into the following categories: Irrigated Lands, Sub-irrigated Lands, and Water Awards. All previously unmapped areas were assigned to either Irrigated Lands or Sub-Irrigated Lands based on the visual interpretation of Digital Ortho Quarter Quadrangles (DOQQs) and 1999 Landsat color-infrared satellite imagery. Identified lands were then transposed onto USGS 1:24,000-scale, 7.5 Minute Quadrangle maps, attributed with water rights, digitized and placed into an ArcView 3.2a shapefile. Verification of irrigated versus sub-irrigated lands occurred during the assignment of water right attributes. Previously mapped lands - obtained from the Wyoming State Engineer's Office - were then incorporated into the irrigated lands shapefile and assigned to the appropriate category based on existing attributes. This dataset has been modified to show ONLY the Futures irrigated lands of the project. This was done to simplify the data for the client in the mxd.