About the interactive map

This map was created at the UW-Madison Cartography Lab by Rob Roth, Andy Woodruff, Joel Przybylowski under the supervision of Professor Bill Cronon and Professor Mark Harrower. Melanie McCalmont assisted with info window text and image production. Production: May-November 2006.

Map and website acknowledgements

Interactive map cartography services

To contact us about creating an interactive map for your next project, please email UW Cartography Lab Assistant Director Mark Harrower at: maharrower@wisc.edu

Data sources

We gratefully acknowledge all the individuals and institutions whose work has contributed data without which the layers of the Lakeshore Nature Preserve's interactive map would could not have been created.

Base Map Information

Many of the details on the base map were derived by the UW Cartographic Laboratory team from map layers already developed for the on-line University of Wisconsin-Madison Campus Map, accessible at http://map.wisc.edu/ . Unless otherwise noted below, overlapping information shared between the Preserve map and the Campus Map can be assumed to have derived from the latter.

Visitor Amenities and Other Wayfinding Data

Features of the Wayfinding menu that are not included on the UW Campus Map have generally been added in consultation with Preserve managers Cathie Bruner and Daniel Einstein based on their personal knowledge of these features.

Have You Seen These?

This admittedly quirky layer was created by asking members of the Friends of the Lakeshore Nature Preserve and other knowledgeable users of the Preserve for lists of favorite places that other people might not know about. Locations were finally selected based on whether different locations were relatively less well known; whether their interpretation was suggestive of important historical and natural processes; and whether there were interesting stories to tell about them. Cathie Bruner and Bill Cronon generated most of the material for this layer.

Topographic Elevations

These were derived from the United States Geological Survey at http://seamless.usgs.gov .

Hydrology Data

These are based on the Lakeshore Nature Preserve Master Plan, University of Wisconsin-Madison, 2006.

Soils Data

These were downloaded from the Natural Resources Conservation Service of the United States Department of Agriculture, http://soils.usda.gov/ .

1834 Witness Trees

These are based on the original land survey of the United States as conducted under the Land Ordinance of 1785 and its statutory successors. In Wisconsin, the original notebooks of the surveyors are maintained by the Board of Commissioners of Public Lands, and have been made available in digital format by the UW-Madison Library System as part of the university's digital collections. There is a superb website devoted to these essential historical records at http://digicoll.library.wisc.edu/SurveyNotes/, and we have quoted from its discussion of the land survey in our own treatment of survey points relating to the Lakeshore Nature Preserve.

1939 Vegetation

This is based on the indispensable survey of Wisconsin land use that was conducted in the 1930s as the "Wisconsin Land Economic Inventory," otherwise known as "the Bordner Survey." These land cover maps, originally published on a township-by-township basis, have been digitized by the UW-Madison Libraries and are accessible on-line at http://steenbock.library.wisc.edu/general/bordner.html .

Present and Future Vegetation

These maps are based on the ones published in the Lakeshore Nature Preserve Master Plan, University of Wisconsin-Madison, 2006, which were based in turn on maps created by the Biological Subcommittee of the Lakeshore Nature Preserve Committee, which were based in turn on maps published in the Kline-Bader Report of 1996 (.pdf) A team led by Ann Burgess and including Cathie Bruner and Glenda Denniston revised the map categories and boundaries for present and future vegetation to make these layers more readily comparable on the interactive map.

Indian Habitation Sites and Indian Mounds

These layers are based on the Wisconsin Historic Properties Database, Archaeological Site Inventory, Wisconsin Historical Society, Division of Historic Preservation and Public History. Daniel Einstein was responsible for the intricate work of applying information from this database to the appropriate layers of the interactive map. Archival and field research conducted by George Christiansen III resulted in significant enhancements to the Archaeological Site Inventory database for the UW-Madison campus.

Vanished and Surviving Historic Features

Based in part on the Lakeshore Nature Preserve Master Plan, University of Wisconsin-Madison, 2006, but with considerable modification and ground truthing by Daniel Einstein, Cathie Bruner, Bill Cronon, and others.

Madison Park and Pleasure Drive Association Routes

W.S. Kinne, Annual Report, Madison Park and Pleasure Drive Association, April 1905, " Madison and the Four Lakes Region.”

2004 Orthophoto

University of Wisconsin-Madison, Aerial Map, 2004, University of Wisconsin Board of Regents; the digital version of this was obtained from the Environmental Remote Sensing Center, University of Wisconsin-Madison.

Historic Aerial Photos

Initial preparation of historic orthophotos was performed by Dr. Sam Batzli, Environmental Remote Sensing Center, UW-Madison.

The aerial photos from 1927 and 1937 are from the personal collection of Tom Brock, whose contributions to this and many other features of the map and website are gratefully acknowledged.

“Air map, Picnic Point, Property of Edward J. Young, Madison Wis., Made by Aerial Photographic Service Inc., Chicago,” [c. 1927], in collection of Facilities Planning and Management, UW-Madison.

United States Department of Agriculture. "Dane County Wisconsin July 6, 1937, WU-7-585" [aerial photograph]. 1:20,000. Madison, WI : UW-Madison, Arthur H. Robinson Map Library.

United States Department of Agriculture. "Dane County Wisconsin August 8, 1940, WU9-A-81" [aerial photograph]. 1:20,000. Madison, WI : UW-Madison, Arthur H. Robinson Map Library.

United States Department of Agriculture. "Dane County Wisconsin September 25,1949, WU-3F-150" [aerial photograph]. 1:20,000. Madison, WI : UW-Madison, Arthur H. Robinson Map Library.

United States Department of Agriculture. "Dane County Wisconsin July 12, 1955, WU-1P-57" [aerial photograph]. 1:20,000. Madison, WI : UW-Madison, Arthur H. Robinson Map Library.

United States Department of Agriculture. "Dane County Wisconsin September 11, 1962, WU-3CC-262" [aerial photograph]. 1:20,000. Madison, WI : UW-Madison, Arthur H. Robinson Map Library.

United States Department of Agriculture. "Dane County Wisconsin May 8,1968, WU-2JJ-92" [aerial photograph]. 1:20,000. Madison, WI : UW-Madison, Arthur H. Robinson Map Library.

UW-Madison, aerial map 1996, University of Wisconsin Board of Regents.

UW-Madison, aerial map 1999, University of Wisconsin Board of Regents.

Info Window Texts and Photographs

Documentation for the texts and photographs in the map info windows is supplied where appropriate on the Preserve website.

Text and image credits:

Text list: Bill Cronon, with assistance from Daniel Einstein, Rob Roth, Mark Harrower. Version 1c, 11/16/2006.
Map team photo: Melanie McCalmont