Natura2000 Management Plans: Historical Agricultural Use in Drents Friesche Wold

Drents Friesche Wold, a Natura2000 site in the Netherlands, has a management plan adopted on March 7, 2017. The dataset likely contains historical maps or map sections depicting existing agricultural land use within the protected area as of the year 2000. It is provided by the Dutch Ministry of the Interior and Kingdom Relations under a public domain license.

Use Cases

• Analyze historical agricultural footprint within a Natura2000 site based on the map data mentioned in the description.
• Compare designated land use in management plans against current conditions based on the documented adoption date.
• Study the integration of agricultural activities in conservation planning based on the 'Existing use' concept.

Strengths

• Includes a specific adoption date (07-03-2017) for the management plan.
• Focuses on a defined geographic area (Drents Friesche Wold).
• Released under a public domain license (CC-PDM-1.0) by a national ministry.

Limitations

• Row count and dataset size are unknown, which may limit suitability assessment.
• Column-level documentation is absent; field semantics must be inferred after download.
• Last update date is unknown; freshness unverified.

Provenance

Source

Ministerie van Binnenlandse Zaken en Koninkrijksrelaties (Dutch Ministry of the Interior and Kingdom Relations)

Collection Method

Likely extracted from official Natura2000 management plan documentation.

Time Range

References historical data from 2000 and a plan adoption date of 2017.

Freshness

Last updated date is unknown.

Geography

Drents Friesche Wold, a Natura2000 site in the Netherlands.