Development of boundary and land ownership GIS files for U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service Region 3 national wildlife refuges.

The paper describes the GIS data files representing legislative boundaries and federal land ownership of the approximately 50 refuges in the eight states that comprise Region 3 of the USFWS.Research supported by the College of Natural Resources and Agricultural Experiment Station, University of Minnesota and Cooperative Agreement USDI/1434-HQ-97-RU-01566 WO 49 between the University of Minnesota and the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service