Rachel Carson National Wildlife Refuge, Maine: Biddeford Pool Division Boundary Data

This dataset contains boundary layers for Rachel Carson National
Wildlife Refuge: Biddeford Pool Division.

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). An effort by the USFWS Region 5 (northeast states -
ME,NH,VT, MA, RI, CT, NY, PA, NJ, MD, DE, WV, VA) Realty Division,
Cartography and Spatial Data Services Branch has resulted in digital
refuge boundaries for all refuges in the northeast at a scale of
1:24,000.

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.

Status maps were registered to geographic coordinates, boundaries were
digitized and labeled. Digital files were updated using survey and
collateral data, then stepped through 3 levels of quality-control
review for spatial and thematic accuracy.

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