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STANDARD DATA WARNINGS INFORMATION
FOR MAP AND GEOGRAPHIC DATA PRODUCTS FOR MICHIGAN

Revised 2010 January 14

Standard Lands-User Notification:

BE AWARE – for your protection, legal purposes and for the protection and conservation of Michigan’s valuable public natural resources and the environment, this section and the following section are provided and are crucially important information for first-time users of “MI-HUNT” and the represented geographic-related information. Because these notifications and warnings are provided in several locations and because “MI-HUNT” users will have to pass a confirmation screen that they agree that they have read and are aware of these notifications and warnings, it is assumed you are or have reviewed this section and the next. Please take a moment to read these two sections.

NOTE: It is your responsibility as a user of public lands, to ensure you are informed of all current rules and regulations relevant to your activities. The information presented here represents some details relevant to land use, but is not a complete list of all rules and regulations, and may not be as immediately updated as current legislation and rules. This product is not a legal notice, nor a complete collection of hunting and/or trapping regulations and laws. It is a condensed tool issued for convenience on this specific subject. Contact your local DNR office if you have questions, or to verify regulations relating to possible activities before engaging in those activities. The DNRE is on the internet at www.michigan.gov/dnre

Data Quality and Accuracy Warnings:

NOTE: for the State Ownership Public Land Approximation: Efforts have been made to ensure the most recent and best ownership information have been used in creation of this map, however there are some comments readers should note.

• As state land ownerships change with time, there may be some differences in current ownerships from what is depicted on this map – lands transactions may have occurred.
• The State ownership approximation is representation of a composite of generalized and detailed property extents, as property extents (polygons) are being improved.
• The scale and origin of this map prevents detailed representation of all property extents, such as small property areas or some small non- State ownership in-holdings. Therefore these privately-owned property areas may not appear on the view or map product; however they are still valid private property holdings and they should be respected as such (avoid illegal trespass, etc.).
• These data are not legal documents and are not to be used as such ; this data representation is not for cadastral or legal use.
• The variety of types of State ownerships (such as surface rights, mineral rights, or other rights versus conditional rights, life-lease agreements, granted easements, etc.) are more complicated than what is presented in this map.
• In some areas, some private or non-state ownerships may not be depicted in detail. Much of the ownerships are approximated to the minimum map/data unit of a quarter-quarter section (typically 40 acres) of a township/tier and range block. For some areas, no smaller (fine scale) representation is available other than a 40 acre polygon in this state-wide data layer; therefore a quarter- quarter section represents ownership of a tiny fraction (under 1 acre) up to all the quarter-quarter section (typically 40 acres, but some quarter sections are irregular and do not total to 40 acres).

Therefore when reading the map or map viewer application, please consider the representation to indicate the appropriately “owned” shaded area has some state ownership, and not to indicate that the entire shaded area is state-owned. You, as an end-user, must check those details and plan for possible small differences on-the-ground for possible differences in open or closed hunting conditions, and for possible private land where you must avoid illegally trespassing and maintain safety-zone requiremnts.

(revised 2005 Nov. 16, by M.S, D.E, Michigan DNR Wildlife Division, approved by Division Chief R.H and AG Office)