MassGIS Data: Division of Fisheries and Wildlife Districts

This layer represents the district boundaries of the Massachusetts Division of Fisheries and Wildlife . These districts are used by DFW and its parent agency, the Department of Fish and Game , for administrative purposes.

Two layers - polygon and arc feature classes - are stored in ArcSDE as DFWDISTRICTS_POLY and DFWDISTRICTS_ARC.

Production

The layer was developed by the Department of Fish and Game GIS Program by dissolving (combining) poygons from MassGIS' 1:25,000 Towns layer. The arc layer was generated by MassGIS using ESRI'S ArcGIS 9.0 software.

Attributes

The polygon attribute table contains the following items:

Item	Description
DISTRICT	DFW District Name
ACRES	Area of DFW District in acres

The arc attribute table contains the following items:

Item	Description
OUTLINE	Boundary type:  9 = DFW District boundary  1 = State outline  4 = Coastline

Maintenance

The DFG GIS Program will provide any updates to MassGIS.

Last Updated 6/22/2007