Documenting, managing and protecting our lands in the National Park Service, remains fundamental to our understanding of the nationally significant landscapes we steward. The ability to use geographic information systems (GIS) to help manage all aspects of park operations, including wildland fire history and fuel treatments, provides the National Park Service with a powerful tool. In order to take advantage of this tool to adequately plan and maintain wildland fires among other daily activities, we must maintain accurate spatial information for wildland fire history and fuel treatments.This service displays our wildland fire history. It will assist in program direction, reporting and information requests. Purpose and BenefitsThe purpose of creating and utilizing such wildland fire history and fuel treatment spatial data services is to consolidate our wildland fire history and fuel treatment spatial data and integrate the existing feature attribute information into a national database for budgeting, reporting and planning purposes. Visualizing trends in wildland fire history data geographically through a GIS and accessing all available descriptive information at the same time, without needing to physically combine databases creates a powerful management tool. In this way, planners, resource managers, and superintendents can bring all of the various perspectives which may relate to a single wildland fire together via GIS, enabling them to visualize trends and explore how resources of different types may relate to each other and their contexts. Ultimately, use of the wildland fire history service will lead to more comprehensive access to all of our available wildland fire history and fuel treatment data and provide a more integrated approach to wildland fire data management across the NPS and at all levels: park, region and program. As resource specialists and managers continue to move their legacy data into the service and collect new data in the service, it will allow the NPS Fire Program to effectively budget, plan and manage future wildland fires and fuel treatments.LayersThis service is a combination of two feature classes the NPS Fire GIS program uses to store NPS fire program data agency wide. Each polygon feature displayed includes attributes from the shape's corresponding NFPORS Treatment record. Data is updated nightly to reflect any edits from NFPORS, NPS Treatment Inspector and edits made by Regional Fire GIS Specialists.TreatmentA point feature class representing past and future fuel treatments. This feature class is updated on a regular basis from the National Fire Plan Operations and Reporting System (NFPORS). Treatment records can be created for non-NFPORS treatments or for treatments before NFPORS began in 2003. The Treatment feature class has a many to many relationship to the Event feature class - meaning many treatments can have many events and vice versa.EventA polygon feature class representing completed events. This feature class will represent any complete treatments.

Qualified Opportunity Zones are a new community development program established by Congress in the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act of 2017. This program encourages new, long-term investment in property or businesses in specific areas around the City through federal tax incentives for investors. To take advantage of the program, investors must reinvest new capital gains into Qualified Opportunity Funds which are spent in Qualified Opportunity Zones.https://www.columbus.gov/development/economic-development/Opportunity-Zone-Programhttps://opportunityzones.ohio.gov/wps/portal/gov/ooz/home