Louveterie Lieutenant Jurisdiction Perimeters in Charente, France

Surface objects define the administrative territories assigned to wolf-hunting lieutenants in the French department of Charente. The prefect appoints these lieutenants for six-year terms and determines their jurisdictions, which can be sub-communal. This dataset is provided as a WMS map service by the Bureau de Recherches Géologiques et Minières and was last updated in February 2020.

Use Cases

• Mapping wildlife management jurisdictions based on the described territorial assignments.
• Analyzing the relationship between forest area and lieutenant appointments based on the description of appointment criteria.
• Studying the administrative structure of pest control (louveterie) in France based on the described roles and oversight.

Strengths

• Data is provided as a standardized Web Map Service (WMS) for easy integration into GIS applications.
• The description specifies a clear six-year appointment term for the lieutenants.

Limitations

• Description metadata is limited; actual data quality requires manual inspection after download.
• Last updated 2020-02-07 00:00:00; freshness should be verified.
• Column-level documentation is absent; field semantics must be inferred after download.

Provenance

Source

BUREAU DE RECHERCHES GÉOLOGIQUES ET MINIÈRES

Freshness

Last updated 2020-02-07 00:00:00.

Geography

Charente, France