Aerial survey results

The DNR is lucky to have Resource Assessment's Bill Befort and his crack team of aerial sketch-mappers who provide us with a statewide survey of forest health problems each summer. The US Forest Service also shares their aerial survey maps of the national forests, too. This year Resource Assessment expanded their repertoire to include polygon digitization and creation of the final product, a digital file of all mapped polygons and their attributes. This allows foresters to check out forest health problems at several scales, Region, Area, county and township. Here is the statewide summary of sketch-mapped polygons and a map with all of the forest health polygons mapped.