EnviroAtlas - Minneapolis/St. Paul, MN - Riparian Buffer Land Cover by Block Group

Description

This EnviroAtlas dataset describes the percentage of forested, vegetated, and impervious land within 15- and 50-meters of hydrologically connected streams, rivers, and other water bodies within the EnviroAtlas community area. In this community, forest is defined as Trees and Forest and Woody Wetlands. and vegetated cover is defined as Trees and Forest, Grass and Herbaceous, Woody Wetlands, and Emergent Wetlands. This dataset was produced by the US EPA to support research and online mapping activities related to EnviroAtlas. EnviroAtlas (https://www.epa.gov/enviroatlas) allows the user to interact with a web-based, easy-to-use, mapping application to view and analyze multiple ecosystem services for the contiguous United States. The dataset is available as downloadable data (https://edg.epa.gov/data/Public/ORD/EnviroAtlas) or as an EnviroAtlas map service. Additional descriptive information about each attribute in this dataset can be found in its associated EnviroAtlas Fact Sheet (https://www.epa.gov/enviroatlas/enviroatlas-fact-sheets).

Resources

Name Format Description Link
0 https://edg.epa.gov/data/PUBLIC/ORD/ENVIROATLAS/Communities/MinneapolisStPaulMN
23 https://enviroatlas.epa.gov/arcgis/rest/services/Communities/Community_BGmetrics/MapServer
0 https://www.epa.gov/enviroatlas/enviroatlas-data
0 https://www.epa.gov/enviroatlas

Tags

  • environment
  • mn
  • riparian
  • impact
  • natural resources
  • enviroatlas
  • ecosystem
  • ecosystem services
  • water
  • environmental atlas
  • drinking water
  • ground water
  • land cover
  • minnesota
  • census block groups
  • minneapolis/st. paul
  • surface water
  • communities

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