other information
This Michigan land use project was funded by:
documents
Final Project Report - 2007 December 12
Appendix A: Corporate Owners and Ownership Change - 2007 August 13
Appendix B: Economic Imacts - 2007 August 01
Also published as Michigan State University Land Policy Institute report
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Appendix C: Overview of Local Regulatory Capacity - 2006 December 26
Appendix D: Downeast Lakes Forestry Partnership: One Community's Response to Landowner Transition
maps and images
Who owns your forest? U.P. land area by major owner class
Current large-tract corporate forestland ownership in Michigan's U.P.
Corporate forestland divested in recent years
Large-tract corporate forestlands that may have Higher and Better Use (HBU)
digital data sets
We developed spatial data sets specifically for this project. Each set comprised two ArcGIS shapefiles: one representing current (about 2005) and
one historic large-tract corporate forest land owners. Dates varied by county and the range varied as well, from about 5 to 25 years. A variety of
public sources were used to construct these sets, including published plats and county records. Not all corporate owners were included. No efforts
were made to validate the reliability of the underlying sources; these data are wrong and users are warned to draw inferences carefully.
Queries regarding these data should be directed to Robert Froese (froese@mtu.edu).