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KRIS Battle Creek: Map Page

Area Basin-wide
Topic Map: 1I EPA Landcover/Landuse, Battle Creek Basin
 
This is a map of the 1992 Environmental Protection Agency Landcover/Landuse in the Battle Creek basin. These data are derived from a 1992 Landsat image. Landcover shows clear trends related to elevation and topography. Many of the flat valleys along streams are covered in agriculture (pale orange), including meadows used for grazing. The Mixed Forest at high elevation is the Montane Chaparral vegetation. Scale = 1:149,736 .

 To view metadata about a map layer, click on a link in the table below.
Name of Layer in Map LegendMetadata File Name
Sub-basins (no labels) subbasins.shp.txt
EPA Landcover (1992 Aggregated)(TIFF) lndcov2.tif.txt

 
 
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