Landuse within the Pelican River watershed (2000/1990)
Land Use Table
| UNIT | ACRES |
PERCENTAGE |
| Open water | 30,551 |
18.8 |
| Low intensity residential | 1,530 |
0.9 |
| High intensity residential | 327 |
0.2 |
| Commercial/industrial/transportation | 1,035 |
0.6 |
| Mining/gravel pits | 460 |
0.3 |
| Transitional | 52 |
0.03 |
| Decidous forest | 34,724 |
21.4 |
| Evergreen forest | 662 |
0.4 |
| Mixed forest | 98 |
0.06 |
| Shrublands | 45 |
0.03 |
| Pasture/hay | 32,222 |
19.9 |
| Row crops | 23,475 |
14.4 |
| Small grains | 13,143 |
8.1 |
| Urban/recreational grasses | 957 |
0.6 |
| Forested wetlands | 5,276 |
3.1 |
| Emergent herbaceous wetlands | 14,044 |
8.7 |
| Lake homes and other rural dev. (1990s) | 1,801 |
1.1 |
| Rural farmsteads (1990s) | 686 |
0.4 |
| Spruce/fir in wetlands | 62 |
0.04 |
| TOTAL | 162,145 |