Land Use Data for Latitude 50.25 Longitude -97.75

Area size: .5 degrees latitude by .5 degrees longitude

Locations

Grant's Lake WMA
North, West, and East Shoal Lakes

Agricultural Land Uses

Grasslands - Extensive pastoralism
Grasslands - Mod. intensive pastoralism
Rainfed agriculture (Subsistence/Commercial)
Cropped Agriculture with mod. intensive livestock
Agriculture in protected areas
Open Water - Inland Fisheries

Ecosystems

Temperate drylands

Livestock

Cattle
Pigs

Crops

Cereals and cereal products
Rapeseed
Wheat

Growing Period (days)

120 to 149

Soil Types

Greyzems
Leptosols (Shallow soils)

Terrain

Plain or plateau

Slopes (degrees)

0.5 to 2

Population Density (persons per km2)

0 to 2

Infant mortality (per 1000 live births)

5 to 10

Agricultural use data provided by LADA, 2008. "Mapping Land Use Systems at global and regional scales for Land Degradation Assessment Analysis. Version 1.0" Nachtergaele F. & Petri M.
Mineral extraction data provided by USGS Mineral Resources Data System (MRDS), downloaded June 2, 2010.