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Agricultural Land and Prime and Important
Agricultural Soils
The agricultural land coverage comes from the
RIGIS landuse
coverage. This source was chosen instead of using the parcel
data, because after a visual inspection of the lands are tax
code 09 (Farm), it was clear that this designation underestimates
the amount of farmland in the town. The Landuse 1995 coverage
from RIGIS contains a designation for farmland, and this was
ultimately used to determine farmland.
Detailed
metadata from RIGIS
This coverage comes from the RIGIS
soils coverage. It is made up of soils that fall under the
prime agricultural soils, and soils of statewide importance
designations. This coverage was used in the openspace analysis.
Detailed
metadata from RIGIS
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