NOTE:  Maps are created by Douglas Miskowiak and generated at a size of 44 x 34 inches.  If the maps do not open properly on-line, right-click on the link and choose "Save Target As" and save them to your computer and view them from your desktop.

  2003 State of the Long Lake Watershed (152 pages, 3 MB)
A report summarizing the watershed's environmental and social conditions prepared for the Long Lake Preservation Association. Includes a list of new strategies proposed for the Long Lake Lake Management Plan.

  Identifying and Quantifying Development Constraints for the Townships of Birchwood, Long Lake, and Madge (5 pages, 199 KB)

  Development Constraints Map (10,105 KB)

This map displays areas that have potential for accommodating new development in the townships of Birchwood, Long Lake, and Madge in Washburn County, Wisconsin.   Areas with development potential are those where development constraints are absent.  Development constraints are natural or cultural features that restrict new development. 

Constraints for this map include:

1. Residential, Commercial and Industrial Land Uses

2. Utilities and Community Facilities

3. Government and Institutional Land Uses

4. Road Right of Ways

5. Surface Waters

6. Wetlands

7. Excessive Slopes > 20 Percent

8. Publicly Owned Land

9. Industrial Forests

NOTE:  Data, showing residential, commercial, industrial, government, and institutional land uses, underestimate the size of actual ownership.  Due to these mapping practices, statistics from this analysis overestimate land available for development.

 Identifying and Quantifying Development Potential for the Townships of Birchwood, Long Lake, and Madge (6 pages, 185 KB)

  Development Potential Map (4,391 KB)

This map displays constraints to new development for the townships of Birchwood, Long Lake, and Madge, located in Washburn County, Wisconsin.  Development constraints are natural, managed, or currently developed features that restrict new development from occurring.  For example, wetlands and surface waters restrict the building of new homes.

Land remaining, not touched by constraints, can be considered open to new development (see constraints index). 

NOTE:  Overlap among constraints was taken into account to eliminate double- counting of land acreage.  For example, land occupied both by water and county forests were counted once only. 

The 40-acre public land survey quarter- quarter sections, and a photo- base are included for context.