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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©