Map of water quality monitoring sites, by Bad River Youth Outdoors 2017 (URL)
Online native plant collection, by Bad River Youth Outdoors 2017 (URL)
-Due to the senstive nature of native plant populations, the project map on iNaturalist has been set to private so that only summer youth workers and leaders can view where species were identified and collected.
Bird's Eye View of the Bad River Watershed & Potential Mine: Overview of the Bad River Watershed, with emphasis on the Penokee Range surface water resources. A profile of the elevation change and geologic bedrock illustrates the drastic differences along a south-to-north transect through the Bad River Watershed.Recent article on Wisconsin Land Information Association web site, by Bad River GIS Specialist, on understanding global health impacts of air pollution: https://www.wlia.org/2018/10/29/interactive-air-quality-mapping-the-first-global-conference-on-air-pollution-and-health-this-week/
Links to Useful and Interesting GIS Data
Many of these sites provide links to even more data, interactive maps, and learning resources, and are designed for users of varying levels of GIS experience and ability. If you are looking for a particular type of data, or are unsure how to use any website containing GIS data and/or interactive maps, you are welcome to contact the GIS specialist for assistance.
Federal Datasets
Many of these sites provide links to even more data and resources, and are designed for varying levels of GIS experience.
Government Data Warehouse: http://catalog.data.gov/dataset
Soils: http://websoilsurvey.sc.egov.usda.gov/app/HomePage.htm
Forest Inventory: http://www.fia.fs.fed.us/tools-data/default.asp
Fish and Wildlife: http://www.fws.gov/gis/index.html
NOAA weather: http://radar.weather.gov/ridge/kmzgenerator.php
NOAA Lake Level Viewer: https://coast.noaa.gov/llv/#/lake/superior
NOAA MODIS Imagery: https://coastwatch.glerl.noaa.gov/modis/region_map.html
USGS hydrography: http://nhd.usgs.gov/data.html
USGS Real-Time Data: https://waterdata.usgs.gov/wi/nwis/rt
Bad River Tribe/USGS 2016 Flood Story Map: https://usgs.maps.arcgis.com/apps/MapSeries/index.html?appid=45f89ed273cf424fac57aaa35cbb0e0a
U.S. Army Corps of Engineers Great Lakes Water Levels: http://www.lre.usace.army.mil/Missions/Great-Lakes-Information/Great-Lakes-Water-Levels/
USDA environmental and natural resources: http://nhd.usgs.gov/data.html
EPA monitored sites: http://www.epa.gov/enviro/geospatial-data-download-service Enforcement and Compliance: http://echo.epa.gov/?redirect=echo
Census TIGER files: http://www.census.gov/geo/maps-data/data/tiger.html Data Ferrett: http://dataferrett.census.gov/
National Pipeline Data: https://www.npms.phmsa.dot.gov/default.aspx
Public Land Survey: http://www.geocommunicator.gov/blmMap/MapLSIS.jsp
National Historical GIS: https://www.nhgis.org/research/related-sites
State of Wisconsin Datasets
WIDNR FTP: ftp://dnrftp01.wi.gov/../
DATCP FTP: ftp://ftp.datcp.state.wi.us/GIS/
WI State Cartographer's Office: http://www.sco.wisc.edu/
Runoff Risk Advisory Forecast, from Wisconsin Manure Management Advisory System: http://www.manureadvisorysystem.wi.gov/app/runoffrisk
Interactive 590 Restriction Maps (includes SWQMA info): https://datcpgis.wi.gov/590/default.htm
General GIS Data, Interactive Maps, and Support
Interested in taking GIS to the next level? Local educational opportunities
LCO Ojibwa Community College GIS Technician Certificate Information
Northland College GIS Minor Program of Study
Gogebic Community College Course: Introduction to GIS for Natural Resources Management
Free GIS Software Available Through: OpenSourceGeo
Bad River GIS & Map Services Program
Program Goal
To securely manage and disseminate data as maps, webpages, interactive maps, and reports that exemplify the political, cultural and natural resources within the Bad River Reservation.
- To establish working relationship with each department and program of the Bad River Band
- To create a self-sustaining Mapping and GIS Program.
- To support outreach to all communities of the Bad River Reservation through map and data sharing in printed and online maps.
- To provide formal and informal training on GIS, mapping, and GPS technology to staff
- To develop and maintain standards for data-sharing and documenting data used in maps and collected in the field.
- Spatial data analysis, GIS training & assistance
- GPS training & assistance
- Custom map creation-both interactive ("webmaps") and static (printed) maps
- Large map plotter printing (costs apply)
- Tribe’s critical infrastructure (e.g., roads, sewers, pipelines, electric lines, housing/structure locations)
- Natural resources (e.g., wells, streams, wildlife locations, forest harvests, land use/land cover, designations of resources)
- Lease sites (e.g., locations of past and present lease boundaries, monuments for legal descriptions, maps for NEPA review of leases)
- Land ownership (e.g., historic allotments, fractionated interests, current owners, land purchases, plat maps)
- Tribal historic preservation (e.g., cemeteries, burials, historic roads and structures, historic plat maps)
- Governmental boundaries(e.g. Reservation boundary, watershed boundaries, PLSS boundaries)