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        <origin>Montana State Library</origin>
        <pubdate>20211230</pubdate>
        <title>Montana Conservation Easements, 2021</title>
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          <pubplace>Helena, Montana</pubplace>
          <publish>Montana State Library</publish>
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            <title>Montana Conservation Easements, 2021</title>
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      <abstract>Montana lands with conservation easements. This layer shows private lands parcels on which a public agency or qualified Land Trust has placed a Conservation Easement in cooperation with the land owner.  According to State Law (Montana Code Annotated 76-6-207) easements must be recorded in the county where the land lies.  The county clerk and recorder shall provide a copy of the conservation easement to the Department of Revenue office in that county within 30 days.  The Montana Department of Revenue updates this dataset typically once a month.  

Map features in this data set are not intended as a legal depiction of public or private surface land ownership boundaries and should not be used in place of a survey conducted by a licensed land surveyor.  The data are derived from the Montana Cadastral parcel layer.</abstract>
      <supplinf>This data set is a work in progress; it contains errors of omission and errors in current attributes.

Please note that this dataset contains information on surface status only. The dataset contains no information about ownership or status of the mineral estate.</supplinf>
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        <themekey>boundaries</themekey>
        <themekey>environment</themekey>
        <themekey>planningCadastre</themekey>
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        <themekey>conservation easement</themekey>
        <themekey>easements</themekey>
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        <themekey>boundaries</themekey>
        <themekey>stewardship</themekey>
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          <address>PO Box 201800</address>
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          <postal>59620-1800</postal>
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    <complete>This data set is a work in progress; it may contain errors of omission and errors in current attributes.

Data are updated as information becomes available. Delays between changes in land status and their inclusion in this layer can vary from a few weeks to over a year depending on the source of the information.</complete>
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        <horizpar>The Conservation Easement Data is based on the Bureau of Land Management's Geographic Coordinate Database (GCDB). The BLM collects the GCDB Public Lands Survey System data on a township basis.  The survey boundaries are delineated by computing the geographic positions of township, section, aliquot part, government lot, and special survey corners.  Horizontal control positions from published sources and geographic positioning system (GPS) observations are added and the GCDB grid is adjusted using the least squares method of adjustment to determine the best geographic positions for the survey points.

Horizontal Accuracy varies throughout the data: Scale is dependent on the positional accuracy of the GCDB.</horizpar>
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            <title>Montana Cadastral Mapping Project</title>
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              <pubplace>Helena, Montana</pubplace>
              <publish>Montana State Library</publish>
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