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Ecological Landscapesof Wisconsin
®Ecological LandscapesCounty Boundaries
Scale: 1:2,750,000Wisconsin Transverse Mercator NAD83(91)
Map S1 - ams
Wisconsin was divided into 16 ecoregions with similar ecology and managementopportunities. Each of these ecoregions is called an Ecological Landscape. TheEcological Landscapes are based on the National Hierarchical Framework ofEcological Units (NHFEU; Cleland et al. 1997). There were too many NHFEUSubsections and too few NHFEU Sections to be useful for management purposes.Ecological Landscapes use the same boundaries as NHFEU Sections or Subsections.However, some NHFEU Subsections were combined to reduce the number ofgeographical units in the state to a manageable number. Therefore, EcologicalLandscapes are at a size (scale) between NHFEU Sections and Subsections.
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NorthernHighlandNorth
CentralForest
NortheastSands
Northern Lake MichiganCoastal
Central Lake MichiganCoastal
SouthernLake
MichiganCoastal
SoutheastGlacialPlains
CentralSandHills
CentralSand Plains
Forest Transition
WesternPrairie
WesternCoulees
and Ridges
SouthwestSavanna
Northwest Sands
Northwest
LowlandsSuperior Coastal Plain
Ecological Landscapes of Wisconsin Handbook - 1805.1 WDNR, 2011©