Historical Land Use Change in the Sligo Creek Watershed

The animation on this page illustrates land use change in the Sligo Creek Watershed over the period 1937 - 2000. Yellow indicates agricultural land uses, Green indicates forested land uses, Red indicates urban land uses. (This is a preliminary simulation assuming initiation from an entirely agricultural condition. This is unrealistic and will be updated shortly.)

For more information about protecting the Sligo Creek watershed, please visit the Friends of Sligo Creek website.

Please see: Moglen, G.E. and R.E. Beighley, (2002). "Spatially Explicit Hydrologic Modeling of Land Use Change." Journal of the American Water Resources Association, 38(1): 241-253 for more information on how this land use time series was compiled.