The FS National Forests Dataset (US Forest Service Proclaimed Forests) is a depiction of the boundaries encompassing the National Forest System (NFS) lands within the original proclaimed National Forests, along with subsequent Executive Orders, Proclamations, Public Laws, Public Land Orders, Secretary of Agriculture Orders, and Secretary of Interior Orders creating modifications thereto, along with lands added to the NFS which have taken on the status of 'reserved from the public domain' under the General Exchange Act. The following area types are included: National Forest, Experimental Area, Experimental Forest, Experimental Range, Land Utilization Project, National Grassland, Purchase Unit, and Special Management Area.

GIS data is available on the Forest’s FTP site in the form of “shape files” or layers and is available free for downloading. To utilize these data layers you will need a program that uses the Geographic Information System (GIS) such as ESRI’s ArcMap, ArcView or the free map reading program ArcGIS Explorer. ArcGIS Explorer has tools that let you zoom in/out, print the map, and query data. It also has map tips to identify features, and a help menu. ArcGIS Explorer is available as a free download from the ESRI website. Included is a list of GIS data files available for the Shawnee National Forest. These GIS data files are updated on a continuing basis. It should be noted that this data may have been developed from sources of differing accuracy, accurate only at certain scales, based on modeling or interpretation, or incomplete while being created or revised. Overall accuracy, completeness and timeliness may vary. The following geospatial information/data was prepared by the Shawnee National Forests (US Forest Service). The Forest Service reserves the right to correct, update, modify or replace GIS data without notification. Resources in this dataset:Resource Title: Geospatial Data. File Name: Web Page, url: https://www.fs.usda.gov/main/shawnee/landmanagement/gis Information about the geospatial data and a ftp link to download Forest GIS Data Shapefiles.

An area encompassing all the National Forest System lands administered by a Region. The area encompasses private lands, other governmental agency lands. All National Forest System lands fall within one and only one Administrative Region Area. Metadata

This dataset shows information about the USDA Forest Service constructed recreation sites used to populate the public facing webpages. This information is the descriptive and qualitative information used to set appropriate expectations for visitor use and may not contain all the exact engineering, constructed features. View Metadata.

Existing Forest Service roads with attributes representing their characteristics. This feature layer includes only open Forest Service Roads. Forest Service roads closed to motorized uses can be found here.

Selected GIS data that encompass Coconino National Forest are available for download from this page. A link to the FGDC compliant metadata is provided for each dataset. All data are in zipped shapefile format, in the following projection: Universal Transverse Mercator Zone: 12 Units: Meters Datum: NAD 1983 Spheroid: GRS 1980 Resources in this dataset:Resource Title: Coconino National Forest GIS Data. File Name: Web Page, url: https://www.fs.usda.gov/detail/r3/landmanagement/gis/?cid=stelprdb5209303

Selected GIS data that encompass Cibola National Forest are available for download from this page. A link to the FGDC compliant metadata is provided for each dataset. All data are in zipped shapefile format, in the following projection: Universal Transverse Mercator Zone: 13 Units: Meters Datum: NAD 1983 Spheroid: GRS 1980 Resources in this dataset:Resource Title: Cibola National Forest GIS Data. File Name: Web Page, url: https://www.fs.usda.gov/detail/r3/landmanagement/gis/?cid=stelprdb5212078

An area having regulations and/or restrictions related to existing buildings, structures, or resource activities such as a constructed fuel breaks. Metadata

A parcel of Forest Service land congressionally designated as wilderness such as National Wilderness Area. Click this link for full metadata description: Metadata

Some of the finest mountain scenery in the Southwest is found in the 1.6-million-acre Santa Fe National Forest. Here, you can find the headwaters of Pecos, Jemez, and Gallinas Rivers; mountain streams; lakes; and trout fishing. Travel into Pecos, San Pedro Parks, Chama, and Dome Wildernesses via wilderness pack trips, saddle, or on 1,000 miles of hiking trails. Try whitewater rafting on the Rio Chama or Rio Grande from May to September. Consider turkey, elk, deer, and bear hunting, or visit one of many nearby Indian pueblos, Spanish missions, and Indian ruins. Golden aspen grace the high country from September to October and snow blankets Santa Fe Ski Basin in winter. The Santa Fe National Forest GIS data available for download includes Santa Fe National Forest Geospatial (GIS) Datasets, Motor Vehicle Use Map (MVUM) Travel Aids - digital maps and data of the SFNF to upload to GPS units or Smart Phones, 7.5 Minute Topographic Maps (PDF and GeoTIFF) - US Forest Service topo maps only, USFS Geospatial Clearinghouse - includes GIS data of vegetation treatments, administrative boundaries, inventoried roadless areas, FSTopo datasets, USGS Map Locator and Downloader - download current and historic topo maps, Hardcopy Maps with information on how to purchase hard copy visitor, wilderness, or topographic maps. Resources in this dataset:Resource Title: Santa Fe National Forest Geospatial Data. File Name: Web Page, url: https://www.fs.usda.gov/main/santafe/landmanagement/gis

A depiction of areas designated as Wild and Scenic Rivers. Metadata

The Pacific Southwest Region has geospatial datasets available for download from this website. These datasets are zipped personal or file geodatabases created using ESRI ArcGis 10.0 software. Additional descriptive information as well as data steward contact information, for each geodatabase, can be found under the metadata link. State Level Datasets Existing Vegetation, Fire History, Fire Return Interval Departure, Direct Protection Areas, and other California extent data sets. Region Level Datasets Forest Activities (FACTS), Vegetation Burn Severity, Allotments and other Regional extent datasets. Forest Planning & Monitoring Datasets Land Manangement Plans, including the Draft Early Adopters (Inyo, Sierra and Sequia National Forests) Forest Datasets Transportation and land suitability class data are available. Resources in this dataset:Resource Title: Pacific Southwest Region Geospatial Data. File Name: Web Page, url: https://www.fs.usda.gov/main/r5/landmanagement/gis The Pacific Southwest Region has geospatial datasets available for download from this website. They include State Level Datasets, Region Level Datasets, Forest Planning & Monitoring Datasets, and Forest Datasets. Freeware, like 7-Zip, for decompressing (unzipping) the geodatabases can be found by utilizing a search engine; as can freeware, like ArcGis Explorer Desktop, for viewing the geospatial dataResource Software Recommended: 7-Zip,url: http://www.7-zip.org/ Resource Title: Pacific Southwest Region Geospatial Data. File Name: Web Page, url: https://www.fs.usda.gov/main/r5/landmanagement/gis The Pacific Southwest Region has geospatial datasets available for download from this website. They include State Level Datasets, Region Level Datasets, Forest Planning & Monitoring Datasets, and Forest Datasets. Freeware, like 7-Zip, for decompressing (unzipping) the geodatabases can be found by utilizing a search engine; as can freeware, like ArcGis Explorer Desktop, for viewing the geospatial dataResource Software Recommended: ArcGIS Explorer Desktop,url: http://www.esri.com/software/arcgis/explorer/index.html

This image service contains high-resolution land cover data for the states of Nebraska, South Dakota, and North Dakota. These data are a digital representation of land cover derived from 1-meter aerial imagery from the USDA National Agriculture Imagery Program (NAIP.) The year of NAIP used for each state was 2014.Data are intended for use in rural areas and therefore do not include land cover in cities and towns. Land cover classes (tree cover, other land cover, or water) were mapped using an object-based image analysis approach and supervised classification. These data are designed for conducting geospatial analyses and for producing cartographic products. In particular, these data are intended to depict the location of tree cover in the county. The mapping procedures were developed specifically for agricultural landscapes that are dominated by annual crops, rangeland, and pasture and where tree cover is often found in narrow configurations, such as windbreaks and riparian corridors. Because much of the tree cover in agricultural areas of the United States occurs in windbreaks and narrow riparian corridors, many geospatial datasets derived from coarser-resolution satellite data (such as Landsat), do not capture these landscape features. This dataset is intended to address this particular data gap. These data can be downloaded by county at the Forest Service Research Data Archive. Nebraska: https://www.fs.usda.gov/rds/archive/catalog/RDS-2019-0038 South Dakota: https://www.fs.usda.gov/rds/archive/catalog/RDS-2022-0068 North Dakota: https://www.fs.usda.gov/rds/archive/catalog/RDS-2022-0067 A Kansas dataset was also developed using the same methods and is located at: Kansas data download: https://www.fs.usda.gov/rds/archive/catalog/RDS-2019-0052 Kansas map service: https://data-usfs.hub.arcgis.com/documents/high-resolution-tree-cover-of-kansas-2015-map-service/explore

This dataset contains the recreation opportunity information that the Forest Service collects through the Recreation Portal and shares with the public on https://www.recreation.gov, the Forest Service World Wide Web pages (https://www.fs.usda.gov/) and the Interactive Visitor Map. This recreation data contains detailed descriptions of recreational sites, areas, activities & facilities. This published dataset consists of one point feature class for recreational areas, one spatial view and three related tables such as activities, facilities & rec area advisories. The purpose of each related table is described below RECAREAACTIVITIES: This related table contains information about the activities that are associated with the rec area.RECAREAFACILITIES: This related table contains information about the amenities that are associated with the rec area. RECAREAADVISORIES: This table contains events, news, alerts and warnings that are associated with the rec area.RECAREAACTIVITIES_V: This spatial view/feature class is generated by joining the RECAREAACTIVITIES table to the RECREATION OPPORTUNITIES Feature Class. Please note that the RECAREAID is the unique identifier present in point feature class and in the related tables as well. The RECAREAID is used as foreign key to access relate records.This published data is updated nightly from an XML feed maintained by the CIO Rec Portal team. This data is intended for public use and distribution. Metadata

Historical FiresLast updated on 06/17/2022OverviewThe national fire history perimeter data layer of conglomerated Agency Authoratative perimeters was developed in support of the WFDSS application and wildfire decision support for the 2021 fire season. The layer encompasses the final fire perimeter datasets of the USDA Forest Service, US Department of Interior Bureau of Land Management, Bureau of Indian Affairs, Fish and Wildlife Service, and National Park Service, the Alaska Interagency Fire Center, CalFire, and WFIGS History. Perimeters are included thru the 2021 fire season. Requirements for fire perimeter inclusion, such as minimum acreage requirements, are set by the contributing agencies. WFIGS, NPS and CALFIRE data now include Prescribed Burns. Data InputSeveral data sources were used in the development of this layer:Alaska fire history USDA FS Regional Fire History Data BLM Fire Planning and Fuels National Park Service - Includes Prescribed Burns Fish and Wildlife ServiceBureau of Indian AffairsCalFire FRAS - Includes Prescribed BurnsWFIGS - BLM & BIA and other S&LData LimitationsFire perimeter data are often collected at the local level, and fire management agencies have differing guidelines for submitting fire perimeter data. Often data are collected by agencies only once annually. If you do not see your fire perimeters in this layer, they were not present in the sources used to create the layer at the time the data were submitted. A companion service for perimeters entered into the WFDSS application is also available, if a perimeter is found in the WFDSS service that is missing in this Agency Authoratative service or a perimeter is missing in both services, please contact the appropriate agency Fire GIS Contact listed in the table below.AttributesThis dataset implements the NWCG Wildland Fire Perimeters (polygon) data standard.https://www.nwcg.gov/sites/default/files/stds/WildlandFirePerimeters_definition.pdfIRWINID - Primary key for linking to the IRWIN Incident dataset. The origin of this GUID is the wildland fire locations point data layer. (This unique identifier may NOT replace the GeometryID core attribute)INCIDENT - The name assigned to an incident; assigned by responsible land management unit. (IRWIN required). Officially recorded name.FIRE_YEAR (Alias) - Calendar year in which the fire started. Example: 2013. Value is of type integer (FIRE_YEAR_INT).AGENCY - Agency assigned for this fire - should be based on jurisdiction at origin.SOURCE - System/agency source of record from which the perimeter came.DATE_CUR - The last edit, update, or other valid date of this GIS Record. Example: mm/dd/yyyy.MAP_METHOD - Controlled vocabulary to define how the geospatial feature was derived. Map method may help define data quality.GPS-Driven; GPS-Flight; GPS-Walked; GPS-Walked/Driven; GPS-Unknown Travel Method; Hand Sketch; Digitized-Image; Digitized-Topo; Digitized-Other; Image Interpretation; Infrared Image; Modeled; Mixed Methods; Remote Sensing Derived; Survey/GCDB/Cadastral; Vector; OtherGIS_ACRES - GIS calculated acres within the fire perimeter. Not adjusted for unburned areas within the fire perimeter. Total should include 1 decimal place. (ArcGIS: Precision=10; Scale=1). Example: 23.9UNQE_FIRE_ - Unique fire identifier is the Year-Unit Identifier-Local Incident Identifier (yyyy-SSXXX-xxxxxx). SS = State Code or International Code, XXX or XXXX = A code assigned to an organizational unit, xxxxx = Alphanumeric with hyphens or periods. The unit identifier portion corresponds to the POINT OF ORIGIN RESPONSIBLE AGENCY UNIT IDENTIFIER (POOResonsibleUnit) from the responsible unit’s corresponding fire report. Example: 2013-CORMP-000001LOCAL_NUM - Local incident identifier (dispatch number). A number or code that uniquely identifies an incident for a particular local fire management organization within a particular calendar year. Field is string to allow for leading zeros when the local incident identifier is less than 6 characters. (IRWIN required). Example: 123456.UNIT_ID - NWCG Unit Identifier of landowner/jurisdictional agency unit at the point of origin of a fire. (NFIRS ID should be used only when no NWCG Unit Identifier exists). Example: CORMPCOMMENTS - Additional information describing the feature. Free Text.FEATURE_CA - Type of wildland fire polygon: Wildfire (represents final fire perimeter or last daily fire perimeter available) or Prescribed Fire or UnknownGEO_ID - Primary key for linking geospatial objects with other database systems. Required for every feature. This field may be renamed for each standard to fit the feature. Globally Unique Identifier (GUID).Cross-Walk from sources (GeoID) and other processing notesAK: GEOID = OBJECT ID of provided file geodatabase (4580 Records thru 2021), other federal sources for AK data removed. CA: GEOID = OBJECT ID of downloaded file geodatabase (12776 Records, federal fires removed, includes RX)FWS: GEOID = OBJECTID of service download combined history 2005-2021 (2052 Records). Handful of WFIGS (11) fires added that were not in FWS record.BIA: GEOID = "FireID" 2017/2018 data (416 records) provided or WFDSS PID (415 records). An additional 917 fires from WFIGS were added, GEOID=GLOBALID in source.NPS: GEOID = EVENT ID (IRWINID or FRM_ID from FOD), 29,943 records includes RX.BLM: GEOID = GUID from BLM FPER and GLOBALID from WFIGS. Date Current = best available modify_date, create_date, fire_cntrl_dt or fire_dscvr_dt to reduce the number of 9999 entries in FireYear. Source FPER (25,389 features), WFIGS (5357 features)USFS: GEOID=GLOBALID in source, 46,574 features. Also fixed Date Current to best available date from perimeterdatetime, revdate, discoverydatetime, dbsourcedate to reduce number of 1899 entries in FireYear.Relevant Websites and ReferencesAlaska Fire Service: https://afs.ak.blm.gov/CALFIRE: https://frap.fire.ca.gov/mapping/gis-dataBIA - data prior to 2017 from WFDSS, 2017-2018 Agency Provided, 2019 and after WFIGSBLM: https://gis.blm.gov/arcgis/rest/services/fire/BLM_Natl_FirePerimeter/MapServerNPS: New data set provided from NPS Fire & Aviation GIS. cross checked against WFIGS for any missing perimeters in 2021.https://nifc.maps.arcgis.com/home/item.html?id=098ebc8e561143389ca3d42be3707caaFWS -https://services.arcgis.com/QVENGdaPbd4LUkLV/arcgis/rest/services/USFWS_Wildfire_History_gdb/FeatureServerUSFS - https://apps.fs.usda.gov/arcx/rest/services/EDW/EDW_FireOccurrenceAndPerimeter_01/MapServerAgency Fire GIS ContactsRD&A Data ManagerVACANTSusan McClendonWFM RD&A GIS Specialist208-258-4244send emailJill KuenziUSFS-NIFC208.387.5283send email Joseph KafkaBIA-NIFC208.387.5572send emailCameron TongierUSFWS-NIFC208.387.5712send emailSkip EdelNPS-NIFC303.969.2947send emailJulie OsterkampBLM-NIFC208.258.0083send email Jennifer L. Jenkins Alaska Fire Service 907.356.5587 send email

This layer contains polygon features of Ecological Units for the state of California as described by ECOMAP (1993) "... mapped based on associations of those biotic and environmental factors that directly affect or indirectly express energy, moisture, and nutrient gradients which regulate the structure and function of ecosystems. These factors include climate, physiography, water, soils, air, hydrology, and potential natural communities."

These divisions were first created by Bailey in 1976 and have been updated since. This dataset is the 2007 (Goudey) version.

This version of the ecoregion subsections was used by the California Department of Fish and Wildlife for their Areas of Conservation Emphasis work and their Wildlife Action Plan (https://wildlife.ca.gov/Data/Analysis/ACE & https://www.wildlife.ca.gov/SWAP/Final).

Complete metadata can be found here: https://www.fs.usda.gov/detail/r5/landmanagement/gis/?cid=fsbdev3_048133. The original data can be downloaded in full here: https://www.fs.usda.gov/Internet/FSE_DOCUMENTS/stelprdb5351343.zip.

This dataset was uploaded to Data Basin and is available with additional information at: https://databasin.org/datasets/81a3a809a2ae4c099f2e495c0b2ecc91/

Filtered (5% slope and less) direct normal solar resource data for the Southwest United States

This data provides filtered solar resource averaged over surface cells of 0.1 degrees in both latitude and longitude, or about 10 km in size. Exclusions: Contiguous Area 1km squared; US Census Urban Areas; MRLC Multi Resolution Land Characteristics Consortium http://www.mrlc.gov/; Argone National Lab ACEC Lands (Areas of Critical Environmental Concern) Federally Protected lands (FS - IRA (Inventoried Roadless Areas, FS - National Monument, FS - National Scenic Area, FS - Wilderness, FS - Wilderness Study Area, BLM - Wilderness, BLM - National Recreation Area, BLM - Forest Reserve, BLM - Wilderness Study Area, BLM - National Monument, BLM - National Conservation Area, FWS - National Wildlife Refuge, FWS - Waterfowl Production Area, FWS - Wildlife Management Area, FWS - Wilderness, FWS - Wilderness Study Area, FWS - Fish Hatchery, NPS - National Battlefield, NPS - National Battlefield Park, NPS - National Capital Park, NPS - National Historic Park, NPS - National Historic Site, NPS - National Lakeshore, NPS - National Mall, NPS - National Memorial, NPS - National Military Park, NPS - National Monument, NPS - National Park, NPS - National Parkway, NPS - National Preserve, NPS - National Recreation Area, NPS - National Reserve, NPS - National River, NPS - National Seashore, NPS - Wilderness, NPS - Wilderness Study Area, NPS - National Wild and Scenic River).

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This data set includes polygons for ecological subsections within Subregions within the conterminous United States. This data set contains regional geographic delineations for analysis of ecological relationships across ecological units. Metadata

The Land Status view of National Forest System land parcels that have legal descriptions such as National Wilderness Area, Primitive Area, or Wilderness Study Area. Areas designated by Congress as a part of the National Wilderness Preservation System, with related details including the date of the designation, status of the final boundary description, authority, and land status case and document. Metadata

The Trails Layer is designed to provide information about National Forest System trail locations and characteristics to the public. When fully realized, it will describe trail locations, basic characteristics of the trail, and where and when various trail uses are prohibited, allowed and encouraged. Because the data readiness varies between Forests, each Forest will approve which level of attribute subset are published for that forest. Forests can provide no information or one of three attribute subsets describing trails. The attribute subsets include TrailNFS_Centerline which includes the location and trail name and number; TrailNFS_Basic which adds information about basic trail characteristics; and TrailNFS_Mgmt which adds information about where and when users are prohibited, allowed, and encouraged. When a Forest chooses to provide the highest attribute subset, TrailNFS_Mgmt, these attributes must be consistent with the Forest's published Motorized Vehicle Use Map (MVUM). Metadata for the individual Forest feature classes used to compile this feature class are available at data.fs.usda.gov/geodata/edw/dir_trails.php. Metadata