Advantages to Using the DVDs - The DVDs were developed to provide you with high quality, printable and exportable maps, combined with current soils data for making informed land use decisions. Outdoor recreation: Explore and understand your property, public lands, and DNR easements, use base maps, map overlays, and on screen GPS coordinates to scout for hunting, stream fishing or hiking. Evaluate soils to choose the best areas for food plots, trails, tree planting, etc. Construction: Evaluate building, septic, road, and trail soil suitabilities. Agriculture: Examine fields for variability in relative yield potentials, water holding capacity, internal drainage, surface texture, slope, and erodibility. Forest management: Analyze suitability for tree planting and harvesting. Check out the original vegetation survey information from the 1800s Real Estate: Know more about properties by viewing airphotos and topo maps, and analyzing construction suitabilities, soil drainage, and proximity to public lands and waters. Communicate your knowledge to others by exporting high quality maps into your documents. Education: Learn more and teach others about soil science, local glacial geology, original vegetation cover data from the 1800s, local land use changes, airphoto interpretation, geographic positioning systems (GPS), and geographic information systems (GIS).