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Title: LITTLE RIVER EXPERIMENTAL WATERSHED, TIFTON, GA, UNITED STATES: A HISTORICAL GEOGRAPHIC DATABASE OF CONSERVATION PRACTICE IMPLEMENTATION

Author
item Sullivan, Dana
item Batten, Herman

Submitted to: Water Resources Research
Publication Type: Peer Reviewed Journal
Publication Acceptance Date: 6/18/2007
Publication Date: 9/14/2007
Citation: Sullivan, D.G., Batten, H.L. 2007. Little river experimental watershed, tifton, ga, united states: a historical geographic database of conservation practice implementation. Water Resources Research. Number 43.

Interpretive Summary: The Little River Experimental Watershed is located in the headwaters of the Upper Suwannee River basin and is one of twelve national benchmark watersheds participating in the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) Conservation Effects Assessment Project-Watershed Assessment Studies (CEAP-WAS). In support of the CEAP-WAS effort a historical geographic database was developed cataloguing the location of all conservation practices initiated by the USDA Natural Resource Conservation Service circa 1980 through 2006. Historical paper files and maps were collected and used to delineate field boundaries and transfer conservation practice notation to digital format. The CEAP-WAS database can be queried by conservation practice, total acreages enrolled, year of implementation and location. The CEAP-WAS database is integral to understanding the links between conservation practice implementation and placement with observed changes in hydrologic processes within a small Southern Coastal Plain watershed. All associated geographic information has been provided in shapefile format and projected into Universal Transverse Mercator Coordinates (zone 17), using NAD83 as the Datum and GRS80 as the ellipsoid. Data may be accessed via ftp://www.tiftonars.org/, archived in a folder named ceap_data.

Technical Abstract: The Little River Experimental Watershed is located in the headwaters of the Upper Suwannee River basin and is one of twelve national benchmark watersheds participating in the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) Conservation Effects Assessment Project-Watershed Assessment Studies (CEAP-WAS). In support of the CEAP-WAS effort a historical geographic database was developed cataloguing the location of all conservation practices initiated by the USDA Natural Resource Conservation Service circa 1980 through 2006. Historical paper files and maps were collected and used to delineate field boundaries and transfer conservation practice notation to digital format. The CEAP-WAS database can be queried by conservation practice, total acreages enrolled, year of implementation and location. The CEAP-WAS database is integral to understanding the links between conservation practice implementation and placement with observed changes in hydrologic processes within a small Southern Coastal Plain watershed. All associated geographic information has been provided in shapefile format and projected into Universal Transverse Mercator Coordinates (zone 17), using NAD83 as the Datum and GRS80 as the ellipsoid. Data may be accessed via ftp://www.tiftonars.org/, archived in a folder named ceap_data.