Playa Lakes Joint Venture Newsletter – September 2011

Wondering how many playas are in your backyard? Playa Lakes Joint Venture has released updated maps that pinpoint the locations of more than 75,000 playas in counties across the PLJV region. Land managers and landowners can use these maps to locate playas in a specific location and see how playas are distributed throughout their county. The new maps were created with Version 4 of the Probable Playas spatial data layer and are available for download as PDFs from the PLJV website. Multiple sources of geographic data went into making the maps, including the National Wetlands Inventory (NWI), Soil Survey Geographic (SSURGO) database and satellite imagery. The wetland data were analyzed for each state where playas are found (Colorado, Kansas, Nebraska, New Mexico, Oklahoma and Texas) to create the most comprehensive playa location maps possible using remote sources. For full story, click here.