Description: Stream Habitat
Stream layer that joins separate RMOW GIS (2023) layers for streams and rivers. Some clean-up of data by Bob Brett and Silvi Cafarella (Snowline 2024).
Changes from source mapping:
- Some stream segments were deleted if they appeared to be in error, e.g., appeared to flow back uphill, were discontiguous, etc.
- Streams were grouped into watershed to allow more accurate naming. This process resulted in far fewer line segments labelled as “Stream” rather than by name of watershed.
- Original RMOW data mapped streams and rivers separately due to software constraints. That is, streams were mapped as lines and larger rivers were mapped as polygons, and ArcGIS software does not allow two different shapes (lines and polygons) in the same file. Rivers were therefore redigitized as lines to merge the two features.