information at the species composition level or 
plant community level. 
The vegetation coverage created for the Apostle 
Island National Lakeshore is not limited to the 
applications demonstrated above. It can be used 
as basic natural research data and for providing 
relevant information for various management 
needs. 
ACKNOWLEDGMENTS 
We gratefully acknowledge Emmet J. 
Judziewicz, for his efforts in this project. He 
reviewed all the draft maps and text, and helped 
establish the vegetation classification schema. 
We greatly thank Ms. Julie F. Van Stappen, at 
National Park Service Apostle Island National 
Lakeshore, for her help with the vegetation 
classification schema and logistic support in 
ground truthing field work and Mr. Joseph 
Meyer at Midwest Region GIS Technical 
Support Center, National Park Service for his 
coordination and technical support. We thank 
David J. Mladenoff and Ben Sherman, at 
University of Wisconsin-Madison, for reviewing 
the manuscript and for automating Emmet's 
survey plots respectively. 
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