Menominee GIS

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• Menominee GIS

Emergency Planning and Gaining Trust Taxing
Issues
Paul Crocker, GISP Menominee Tribal
Enterprises And Paul Cegelski, GISP Menominee
Indian Tribe of Wisconsin June 15, 2009
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Outline - A Case Study at Menominee

• Background
• The Event
• Response
• Lessons Learned
• Integration of the Lessons

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Background

• BS. and MS. in Forestry from MTU, emphasis on GIS
  and Remote Sensing
• Working with GIS for over 11 years
• GISP certified
• GIS/Inventory Forester for MTE since 2005
• Responsible for maintaining the GIS and Inventory
  program for the Menominee forest (220,000
  acres)
• Paul Cegelski at Menominee Community Development
  maintains GIS on the non-forested trust lands

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The Event

• June 7, 2007
• EF3 Tornado, up to 1/2 mile wide, covering 12
  miles across the reservation
• Primarily affected timber and severed several
  main roads including State Highway 47
• Affected two heavily-used lakes (high potential
  for death or injury near the lakes)

Photo courtesy WAOW-TV
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Menominee Indian Reservation
Tornado Path
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Response Initial Challenges

• Command Issues (whos responsibility?)
• multiple jurisdictions were affected
• Priorities
• Coordination within and between agencies
• Communication (with the public, within agencies)
• Search and Rescue (was there anyone out there?)
• Timing
• storm occurred after hours
• accuracyperfection is the enemy of good enough
  (tricky balance between speed and quality)

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Response The Plan (and the role of GIS)

• Immediate needs (1-7 days after storm)
• road maps for field personnel
• organizational structure
• information gathering and reproduction
• Intermediate needs (1-5 weeks)
• accurate map of tornado path, and estimate of
  timber volume within this area
• imagery flown by Ayres Associates
• Long-term needs (5 weeks)
• salvage operations
• map updates

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Response

• Implemented the Incident Command System (ICS)
• Initial Assessment GIS and maps to coordinate...
• Overflights, visual estimation and GPS
• Ground recon
• GIS and associated DBs essential for salvage
  planning
• Job delineation
• Volume estimation
• Documentation

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Response

• Resources on-hand were valuable in improving
  coordination between organizations
• base layers
• constantly updated road status and refined the
  tornado footprint
• established Heli-spots to facilitate rapid
  evacuation in the event of medical emergency
• maps and coordinates were distributed to most
  regional EMS organizations

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Lessons Learned

• Having a plan in place before an event occurs is
  essential. Plan should include
• chain of command (ICS proved vital)
• all of the maps in the world only add to the
  chaos in the absence of a systematic approach in
  a rapidly changing situation
• responsibilities
• data
• communications
• trained personnel

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Lessons Learned

• Organization of GIS resources greatly improves
  efficiency
• trained personnel
• leverage existing geodatabases
• maximize use of map templates/base maps
• must have clear process for integrating changes
  and communicating these back to field personnel
  and management
• maintain good relationships with possible imagery
  vendors and other contractors

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Integration of Lessons at MTE

• Developing a Disaster Management Plan
• Emphasis on Training (e.g. Red Cards, ICS mapping
  training/experience)
• Maintain current database and mapping resources
  (e.g. software, printers, etc)
• Be prepared! Be prepared! Be prepared!

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Any quick questions before we move on
Image Courtesy of University of
Wisconsin-Milwaukee
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Outline Gaining Trust Taxing Issues

• Background
• Problems with MIS
• Data! Data! Data!
• Current Issues and Future Plans
• Indian Reservation Roads (IRR) GIS

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Background

• Paul Cegelski, GISP
• GIS Coordinator
• Started at MITW December 2007
• Never worked directly for a government agency
• New to Tribal policies and history
• Learned quickly about parcels owned by Tribe
  (Trust) and County (Tax)

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Menominee Reservation/County
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GIS in the County

• Working together
• Menominee Indian Tribe
• Menominee County
• Menominee Tribal Enterprises
• College of Menominee Nation

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Sorry, we are experiencing technical
difficulties. Please stand by

• MIS difficulties
• No idea what ESRI/ArcInfo was used for
• Lost software installation CDs
• No support
• Had other, more pressing issues
• Thought we would continue to just use AutoCAD,
  no reason to switch

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Dude, wheres my data?

• Utilizing existing data
• In AutoCAD format
• Data created for engineering purposes in no
  coordinate system and origin at 5000,5000
• Sifting through directories and CDs to find
  usable data
• Constantly getting new data requests
• As GIS becomes more known, getting the can you
  do this request

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Parcel Data

• Used AutoCAD file from County GIS dept.
• Slowly cleaning parcels to join to County and
  Tribal property DBs
• Used AutoCAD text to create address and Parcel ID
• Missing on many Trust parcels
• Text insertion point outside parcel polygon
• Need to make up new parcel IDs

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Parcel Data (pt 2)

• Verifying information
• CAD Annotation
• Link to Assessment data
• Local knowledge
• Working towards completion
• Tax Trust are delineated correctly
• County Tribe property DBs joined
• Real Estate has access and uses data
• ArcReader
• ArcGIS Server

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Parcel Data (pt3)

• Original property lines COGOd
• Somehow the parcels around the Legend Lake area
  got moved
• Other data created based on location of bad
  parcels over the years

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Gaining Trust

• For staff to utilize GIS
• Accurate data
• Easy to use
• Data services that support their daily tasks
• Data stewards
• Getting people who use the data to control their
  data
• They will want to make sure the data is correct

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Hurdles

• Organizational Cultural vs. Rebuilding Challenge
• Preserve heritage
• Locate archeological sites keep secure
• Help maintain sustained development
• Supporting new ventures
• Providing new tools to solve age-old problems

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What are we doing now?

• Current projects
• Parcels
• Commercial/Recreational buildings
• Verifying/correcting IHS utility data
• Photos of Trust properties
• ArcSDE ArcGIS Server
• Creating an Indian Reservation Roads GIS

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Creating a useable IRR GIS

• Staff used printed IRR database
• Fields chopped off
• Unless you know where every road is, difficult to
  find data
• Creating dataset
• Merged roads from start to end
• Split by sections

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IRR GIS

• Create unique join fields
• Create new field to concatenate route number and
  section number in both DB and GIS layer

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ArcReader IRR GIS

• Now engineers are able to use the IRR data
  without having to go through paper inventory,
  even use it for planning

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Questions?