CA Hardwoods Rangeland Monitoring Project 
                        ARC/INFO Data Dictionary

COVERAGE NAME: HARDWOODS

FEATURE TYPE: POLYGON

Source: PMR Classified 1990 Landsat Thematic Mapper Imagery,
        1981 CDF Air Photos,Polygons pulled from existing CDF 
        hardwood maps.
                                 
MINIMUM MAPPING UNIT: 40 Acres

AREAL EXTENT: Hardwood rangeland, areas less thatn 5000 feet msl and over 40 acres in size.  The south coast region data is not available at this time (see
Janine for details).


COLUMN   ITEM NAME        WIDTH OUTPUT  TYPE N.DEC                          
                         
   25  HWPOLYS-ID             4     5     B      -                        
   29  REGION_NUMBER          1     1     I      -                           
   60  COV_TYP               10    10     C      -                        
   70  PILS_CC                6     6     C      -                           
   86  WHR_CC                 6     6     C      -                           
  102  SIZE                   6     6     C      -                        
                      

INFO ITEM DEFINITIONS:

        HWPOLYS-ID -- Original Polygon Coverage Relate Item.

        REGION_NUMBER  NAME -- Ecological analysis regions
               1       Central Coast
               3       San Joaquin/East Side Sierra
               4       Sacramento/North Interior
               5       Central Sierra
               6       North Coast                

        COV_TYP -- Cover type labels based on the Pillsbury
                   classification scheme.

                BOW -- Blue Oak Woodland
                BODP -- Blue Oak \ Foothill Pine
                VOW -- Valley Oak Woodland
                COW -- Coastal Oak Woodland
                MH -- Montane Hardwoods
                OTHER -- Non-Hardwood
                NODATA -- no data for sliver polygon
                POTENTIAL -- vegetation classified as hardwood outside the 
                             Pillsbury hardwood polygons