Refuge Boundary for Norwalk Harbor Islands Division of Stewart B. McKinney National Wildlife Refuge in Connecticut

This data set contains boundary layers for the Northwalk Harbor
Division of the Stewart B. McKinney National Wildlife Refuge.

National Wildlife Refuges are federal lands managed by the U.S. Fish
and Wildlife Service (USFWS). The primary source for boundary
information is the USFWS Realty program (status maps, legal
surveys). A joint effort between the Region 5 (northeast - ME, MA, NH,
VT, RI, CT, NY, PA, NJ, MD, VA, WV) GIS Lab and Realty program, has
resulted in digital refuge boundaries for all refuges in the northeast
at a 1:24,000 scale.

The intended application of the data is to serve as a spatial
reference of refuge boundaries for other data layers in GIS and
mapping applications. It is specifically not intended to be used as a
land survey or representation of land for conveyance or tax
purposes. The Realty Survey program in USFWS is developing cadastral
information (boundary and acreage data) appropriate for legal
purposes. It is expected that data created in this project will be
replaced as better survey information is collected.

Status maps were registered to geographic coordinates, boundaries
digitized and labeled, then stepped through 3 levels of quality review
for spatial and thematic accuracy. Complete process description can be
found in Service Lands Boundary Data SOP.

[Summary provided by U.S. Fish & Wildlife Service]