 Land Use/Land Cover for French Creek Watershed
| Landcover statistics are calculated from the
French Creek Watershed Landuse / Landcover map The National Land Cover Datasets for Pennsylvania and New York States were downloaded from USGS (http://landcover.usgs.gov/natllandcover.html) and clipped by the French Creek Watershed boundary. The French Creek Watershed boundary was clipped from Pennsylvania and New York watershed boundaries from PASDA (http://www.pasda.psu.edu). Land Cover Class definition are defined by USGS: (http://landcover.usgs.gov/classes.html) (Data description prepared on June 6, 2003 by Andrea McMillen) French Creek Watershed Landcover Statistics | | Value | Count | Cover Type | % Cover | Acres | Sq. Miles | Hectares | Sq. Km | | 41 | 1480302 | Deciduous Forest | 41.7 | 329211.6 | 514.4 | 133227.2 | 1332.3 | | 81 | 1206186 | Pasture/Hay | 34.0 | 268249.6 | 419.1 | 108556.7 | 1085.6 | | 43 | 348094 | Mixed Forest | 9.8 | 77414.3 | 121.0 | 31328.5 | 313.3 | | 82 | 160746 | Row Crops | 4.5 | 35749.1 | 55.9 | 14467.1 | 144.7 | | 42 | 145661 | Evergreen Forest | 4.1 | 32394.3 | 50.6 | 13109.5 | 131.1 | | 91 | 114743 | Woody Wetlands | 3.2 | 25518.3 | 39.9 | 10326.9 | 103.3 | | 21 | 33267 | Low Intensity Residential | 0.9 | 7398.4 | 11.6 | 2994.0 | 29.9 | | 11 | 20523 | Open Water | 0.6 | 4564.2 | 7.1 | 1847.1 | 18.5 | | 92 | 16400 | Emergent Herbaceous Wetlands | 0.5 | 3647.3 | 5.7 | 1476.0 | 14.8 | | 23 | 15840 | Commercial/Industrial/Transportation | 0.4 | 3522.7 | 5.5 | 1425.6 | 14.3 | | 85 | 3102 | Urban/Recreational Grasses | 0.1 | 689.9 | 1.1 | 279.2 | 2.8 | | 33 | 2310 | Transitional | 0.1 | 513.7 | 0.8 | 207.9 | 2.1 | | 32 | 2141 | Quarries/Strip Mines/Gravel Pits | 0.1 | 476.1 | 0.7 | 192.7 | 1.9 | | 22 | 1399 | High Intensity Residential | 0.0 | 311.1 | 0.5 | 125.9 | 1.3 | | | | | | | | | | | Sum | 3550714 | Sum | 100.0 | 789660.5 | 1233.8 | 319564.3 | 3195.6 |
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