Bureau of Parks and Lands Conservation and
Recreation Lands
Web Mapping Google Earth Option
You can view
the
Bureau's ownership and land management responsibilities for
Maine’s State Parks, Historic Sites, Public Lands, Multi-Use
Recreational properties and other lands as provided
by law using Google Earth.
Baxter State Park is administered by the Baxter
State Park Authority
and is not a part of the Department of Conservation. Data for
Baxter State Park is provided by Baxter State Park. Detailed
information about Baxter Park can be found at Baxter State Park
Authority.
Notes about using BP&L's Conservation and Recreation Lands Google
Application:
- Visit the Google
Earth Help Center
for understanding of Google Earth and its abilities and limitations.
This Google Earth link will
help you download and install the software on your PC.
- Once you have launched the
Google Earth application you can choose map layer options from the menu at
the left and you can obtain information on each property or site.
- You can obtain information
on each property by
clicking on points or properties to generate a data table.
- The data in the map
layers or tables are
defined
in the following links:
- Parcels
Table: (Click
anywhere on the parcel): provides data
about the individual parcels acquired over time to create the property
as it exists today.
- Contact
Information Table: (Click on yellow dots
in the center of the parcel): provides contact
information for the Bureau of Parks and Lands owned properties.
Additionally the link will direct you to a gps downloadable file in
three different
file formats; csv, text and dbf. The Latitude and Longtitude
coordinates are in decimal
degrees.
- Land and Water
Conservation Sites Table: (Click anywhere
on the blue balloon symbols): these sites
designate recreation project or lands acquired using federal Land and
Water Conservation Funds.
You can obtain
information on boating access sites by
clicking on
the boat symbols in Google Earth. Additional information listing
boating sites by town, waterbody, county, tidal and freshwater can be
found on the Bureau's Boating
Facilities Website.
Launch
our Bureau
of Parks and Lands Conservation and Recreation Lands map
here. Google Earth should automatically execute.
Disclaimers:
- The Maine DOC is only
providing this data to be used in the Google Earth application on the
user's computer. We are not responsible for installing or maintaining
Google Earth software products.
- The Google Earth imagery
dates provided do not necessarily represent the date the image was
captured but show the date the imagery was processed and deployed.
- This data is for visual
representation only and may not contain all data that is available by
contacting the DOC directly.
- All information depicted is
as accurate as avialable data allows.
If you have questions, comments or suggestions feel free to Contact
Us
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