Wilderness areas are federally-owned public lands managed by the federal government through four agencies, the Bureau of Land Management, Fish and Wildlife Service, Forest Service, and National Park Service. When the National Wilderness Preservation System started in 1964, only 54 wilderness areas were included. Since then, the system has grown nearly every year to include more than 800. The time component of this service is based on the year in which the wilderness was originally designated (additions may have occurred in subsequent years). Overall, however, only about 5% of the entire United States—an area slightly larger than the state of California— is protected as wilderness. Because Alaska contains just over half of America's wilderness, only about 2.7% of the contiguous United States—an area about the size of Minnesota—is protected as wilderness. To learn more about wilderness areas, visit Wilderness Connect, the authoritative source for wilderness information online. Wilderness Connect also publishes two other map resources:An interactive wilderness map allows visitors to search for and explore all wilderness areas in the United States. Fact-filled storymaps on the benefits of wilderness illustrate how wilderness protects values including clean water, wildlife habitat, nearby recreation, cultural sites and more.

Although wilderness areas are federally-owned, some areas contain non-federal parcels within their boundaries. Non-federal lands within some wilderness areas are included as part of this feature dataset as a separate layer. Termed inholdings or edgeholdings, these lands are privately-owned or owned by local governments, state governments or Indigenous Nations. Hundreds of inholdings and edgeholdings exist across the wilderness system. Generally, however, they are small compared to the size of the wilderness itself. Since the rules and regulations that apply to wilderness areas do not apply to these non-federally-owned parcels, it is important for wilderness visitors to know their location to avoid trespassing where access is not allowed. The owners of inholdings and edgeholdings can develop these parcels (as long as developments do not affect the character of the surrounding wilderness lands) and they retain special and limited access to them, sometimes, but not always, by motorized means.

A map service depicting parcels of Forest Service land congressionally designated as wilderness such as National Wilderness Areas. This map service provides display, identification, and analysis tools for determining current boundary information for Forest Service managers, GIS Specialists, and others. The map service uses a File Geodatabase data source with Web Mercator projection.�Metadata and Downloads

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

The map layer Wilderness Areas North Rhine-Westphalia covers the wilderness development areas in the state forest of North Rhine-Westphalia, which have been designated in North Rhine-Westphalia since 2011. These beech and oak old wood stocks were determined by the State Office for Nature, Environment and Consumer Protection (LANUV NRW) and the State Forest and Wood Plant NRW on the basis of a technically derived concept. Forestry is no longer used in the wilderness development areas and natural developments are permitted. In this way, international and national requirements are met and a contribution is made to increasing biodiversity. The service includes a good 300 individual areas – so-called wilderness biotopes – which are spread over around 100 wilderness development areas, usually FFH and/or nature reserves. In total, about 7,800 hectares of state forest will be taken out of forestry use. In addition, other unused forest areas such as the process protection zone of the Eifel National Park and two larger areas taken out of use by a private nature conservation association or a private forest owner are listed in the map layer.

Wilderness areas are federally-owned public lands managed by the federal government through four agencies, the Bureau of Land Management, Fish and Wildlife Service, Forest Service, and National Park Service. When the National Wilderness Preservation System started in 1964, only 54 wilderness areas were included. Since then, the system has grown nearly every year to include more than 800. The time component of this service is based on the year in which the wilderness was originally designated (additions may have occurred in subsequent years). Overall, however, only about 5% of the entire United States—an area slightly larger than the state of California— is protected as wilderness. Because Alaska contains just over half of America's wilderness, only about 2.7% of the contiguous United States—an area about the size of Minnesota—is protected as wilderness. To learn more about wilderness areas, visit Wilderness Connect, the authoritative source for wilderness information online. Wilderness Connect also publishes two other map resources:An interactive wilderness map allows visitors to search for and explore all wilderness areas in the United States. Fact-filled storymaps on the benefits of wilderness illustrate how wilderness protects values including clean water, wildlife habitat, nearby recreation, cultural sites and more.

Although wilderness areas are federally-owned, some areas contain non-federal parcels within their boundaries. Non-federal lands within some wilderness areas are included as part of this feature dataset as a separate layer. Termed inholdings or edgeholdings, these lands are privately-owned or owned by local governments, state governments or Indigenous Nations. Hundreds of inholdings and edgeholdings exist across the wilderness system. Generally, however, they are small compared to the size of the wilderness itself. Since the rules and regulations that apply to wilderness areas do not apply to these non-federally-owned parcels, it is important for wilderness visitors to know their location to avoid trespassing where access is not allowed. The owners of inholdings and edgeholdings can develop these parcels (as long as developments do not affect the character of the surrounding wilderness lands) and they retain special and limited access to them, sometimes, but not always, by motorized means.

Wilderness areas, defined as areas free of industrial scale activities and other human pressures which result in significant biophysical disturbance, are important for biodiversity conservation and sustaining the key ecological processes underpinning planetary life-support systems. Despite their importance, wilderness areas are being rapidly eroded in extent and fragmented. Here we present the most up-to-date temporally inter-comparable maps of global terrestrial wilderness areas, which are essential for monitoring changes in their extent, and for proactively planning conservation interventions to ensure their preservation. Using maps of human pressure on the natural environment for 1993 and 2009, we identified wilderness as all 'pressure free' lands with a contiguous area >10,000 km2. These places are likely operating in a natural state and represent the most intact habitats globally. We then created a regionally representative map of wilderness following the well-established 'Last of the Wild' methodology; which identifies the 10% area with the lowest human pressure within each of Earth's 60 biogeographic realms, and identifies the ten largest contiguous areas, along with all contiguous areas >10,000 km2.

Lolo National Forest is looking for public input on the draft inventory of lands that maybe suitable for wilderness recommendation, we are using the Talking Points Collaborative map to facilitate this effort. Our first step of the wilderness recommendation process was to develop an inventory of all lands across the Lolo National Forest that may be suitable for wilderness recommendation due to size, roads, and other improvements. The inventory includes previously recommended wilderness areas from the 1986 Lolo National Forest Plan and inventoried roadless areas established under the 2001 Roadless Area Conservation Rule. Areas of 5,000 acres or more that are generally unroaded, undeveloped, or unmodified are included in the inventory of lands to evaluate for potential recommendation.

The Lolo National Forest would appreciate your help to understand what areas may be missing or should be excluded from the inventory, some helpful information and feedback to include:1. Are there areas not included in the inventory that should be? Help us understand additional areas that may fit the unroaded, undeveloped, or unmodified criteria.2. Are there areas currently included that we may want to reconsider due to roads or other developments that exist there that we may have missed? Please tell us where these developments may occur.

Contained within the Atlas of Canada's Various Map Series, 1965 to 2006, is map which is intended to give information about canoeing routes in Canada. The side focusing on this theme contains text about canoeing and has maps showing how routes and portage locations are indicated on maps of the National Topographic Series.

This dataset is meant to depict wilderness areas within the state of New Mexico managed by the Bureau of Land Management These wilderness areas are officially designated by the U.S. Congress. Data was collected by the U.S. Bureau of Land Management (BLM), New Mexico State Office.

This dataset depicts those areas of Rocky Mountain National Park that were designated as wilderness pursuant to Public Law 111-11, Title I, Subtitle N., dated March 30, 2009. This dataset also depicts the portion of Indian Peaks Wilderness that was transferred to Rocky Mountain National Park pursuant to Public Law 96-560, Title I, Sec. 111, dated December 22, 1980. This dataset was used to create the maps entitled: * 'Rocky Mountain National Park Wilderness', numbered 121-101,335A and dated Jan. 2010; * 'Rocky Mountain National Park East Shore Trail Alignment', numbered 121-101,337A and dated Jan. 2010. This dataset was used to create the maps within the document entitled: * 'Rocky Mountain National Park Wilderness Boundary Descriptions', numbered 121-101,336A, and dated Jan. 2010. Pursuant to Public Law No: 111-11, two maps and a detailed boundary description document were prepared for the Secretary of the Interior, for his inspection and approval, and for submission to the Committee of Energy and Natural Resources of the Senate and the Committee on Natural Resources of the House of Representatives. The finalized map and wilderness boundary descriptions were prepared 'as soon as practicable' after P.L. 111-11 was published. The detailed descriptions of the wilderness boundary underwent a thorough in-Park review to check for language consistency and clarity before being submitted to the Secretary. This finalized GIS dataset and the detailed descriptions of the wilderness boundary were made available as public domain data after being submitted to the Secretary and the aforementioned Congressional Committees in April 2010. This dataset depicts that approximately 95% of Rocky Mountain National Park has been designated as wilderness. The legislation stated that "approximately 249,339 acres of land in the Park, as generally depicted on the map" were designated as wilderness. After the final configuration of the East Shore Trail Alignment was established, this finalized dataset depicts 249,125 acres designated as wilderness in 2009. Rocky Mountain National Park Wilderness: 249,125 acres Existing Indian Peaks Wilderness within RMNP: 2,960 acres --------------------------- TOTAL Wilderness within RMNP: 252,085 acres Percent of RMNP that is Wilderness: 94.8% The official and legal TOTAL acreage figure for Rocky Mountain National Park is 265,828.41 acres. This has been determined by summing up all the legal descriptions of all the parcels that make up Rocky Mountain National Park. This figure varies slightly (less than one half of one percent) from the figure calculated for this data by the GIS software. Use the official acreage of 265,828.41 acres in any documents referencing the size of Rocky Mountain National Park.

This dataset includes the polygon features representing the spatial extent and boundaries of the Bureau of Land Management (BLM) National Landscape Conservation System (NLCS) Wilderness Areas (WLD), Wilderness Study Areas (WSA), and Other Related Lands with wilderness characteristics (LWC) or managed for wilderness characteristics (MWC).The data standard for these boundaries will assist in the management of all eleven designations within the NLCS. Particularly, NLCS data pertains to the following BLM groups and their purposes: Land Use Planners, GIS Specialists, NLCS team leads, BLM managers, and public stakeholder groups.As early as 1926, the earliest advocates of wilderness preservation had acknowledged the beauty and important ecological values of the desert lands under the BLM’s administration as candidates for wilderness protection. In 1964, Congress established the National Wilderness Preservation System and designated the first Wilderness Areas in passing the Wilderness Act. The uniquely American idea of wilderness has become an increasingly significant tool to ensure long-term protection of natural landscapes. Wilderness protects the habitat of numerous wildlife species and serves as a biodiversity bank for many species of plants and animals. Wilderness is also a source of clean water.The Federal Land Policy and Management Act of 1976 directed the BLM to inventory and study its roadless areas for wilderness characteristics. Here identified areas became WSAs. The establishment of a WSA served to identify areas for Congress to consider for addition to the National Wilderness Preservation System. To be designated as a WSA, an area must have the following characteristics: Size - roadless areas of at least 5,000 acres of public lands or of a manageable size; Naturalness - generally appears to have been affected primarily by the forces of nature; Opportunities - provides outstanding opportunities for solitude or primitive and unconfined types of recreation. In addition, WSAs often have special qualities such as ecological, geological, educational, historical, scientific and scenic values.In June 2000, the BLM responded to growing concern over the loss of open space by creating the NLCS. The NLCS brings into a single system some of the BLM's premier designations. The Wilderness Areas, WSAs, and Other Related Lands represent three of these eleven premier designations. By putting these lands into an organized system, the BLM hopes to increase public awareness of these areas' scientific, cultural, educational, ecological and other values.The BLM's management of all public lands included data within the NLCS is guided by the Federal Land Policy and Management Act (FLPMA). FLPMA ensures that many of BLM's traditional activities such as grazing and hunting, continue on the lands within the NLCS, provided these activities are consistent with the overall purpose of the area.A Wilderness is a special place where the earth and its community of life are essentially undisturbed; they retain a primeval character, without permanent improvements and generally appear to have been affected primarily by the forces of nature. BLM NLCS Other Related Lands are lands not in Wilderness or WSAs that have been determined to have wilderness character through inventory or land use planning. These lands fall into one of two categories. The first category are lands with "wilderness value and characteristics". These are inventoried areas not in Wilderness or WSAs that have been determined to meet the size, naturalness, and the outstanding solitude and/or the outstanding primitive and unconfined recreation criteria. The second category are "wilderness characteristic protection areas". These are former lands with "wilderness value and characteristics" where a plan decision has been made to protect them.To be designated as a WSA, an area must have the following characteristics: Size - roadless areas of at least 5,000 acres of public lands or of a manageable size; Naturalness - generally appears to have been affected primarily by the forces of nature; Opportunities - provides outstanding opportunities for solitude or primitive and unconfined types of recreation. In addition, WSAs often have special qualities such as ecological, geological, educational, historical, scientific and scenic values.There were forty-seven Wilderness Areas established under the Arizona Wilderness Act of 1984 and Arizona Desert Wilderness Act of 1990. These Acts require the BLM to file boundary legal descriptions and maps to Congress for each Wilderness Area. The standards, format, and language for the legal descriptions and boundary maps were developed during regular meetings of the NLCS Coordinator, GIS specialists and the Cadastral Surveyors. Guidance was provided from congressionally-required map and legal boundary descriptions detailed in the NLCS Designation Manual 6120 (March, 2010). All Arizona BLM Wilderness Area boundary legal descriptions and maps have been transmitted to Congress and certified by the Chief of Cadastral Survey and Arizona State Director. There should be no changes to Wilderness Boundary GIS data. Boundary changes can only be made through an amendment to the legal description and this would need to be sent back to Congress.

Areas managed as WILDERNESSwithin Glacier National Park. This mapping was compiled in 2014, implementing NPS Director's Order 41 (2013), which provides guidelines to NPS units for delineating wilderness boundaries. The two main criteria provided by DO-41 are that boundaries 1) must be easily identifiable on the ground, and 2) standard boundary setbacks from roads, paved or unpaved, should be 100-feet either side of centerline. Included in this mapping are areas EXCLUDED from wilderness, which generally fall within 100-feet of road centerline or are part of the park's Visitor Service Zone (GMP, 1999). Additional areas categorized as 'Excluded from wilderness' include lands designated as part of the Visitor Service Zone (VSZ), documented in the GLAC Commercial Serices Plan (2004). Developed area footprints were mapped and then buffered 300-feet. Utility corridors and point locations were mapped and buffered 25-feet. Also, large lakes with existing commercial services were included in the VSZ and thus were categorized as Excluded.POTENTIAL WILDERNESS AREAS (PWA) are the 3rd map class; these lands are currently in private ownership, providing access to private ownership, or are small fragmented areas (i.e. not easily identified on the ground and difficult to manage as wilderness due to size and surrounding land uses) between areas excluded from wilderness (e.g. utility corridors and lands between utility corridors and other excluded areas).Chronology of edits:Begin edits 11/8/13 to implement DO-41. Update layer March 4, 2014 - create version 3 with the following edits - based on 3/3/14 meeting with GLAC Leadership Team (Kym Hall):1. Camas Cr patrol cabin, include 100-ft buffer of cabin + 100-ft buffer of roadway from Inside Rd.2. Bowman CG area: extend 'excluded' area from admin road to creek edge to accommodate admin road/trail (to bridge) not yet mapped. Also inlcude 100-ft buffered trail and 100-ft buffered buildings due east of bridge. 3. Kintla CG - same changes as Bowman, using standard 100-ft buffer of road/cabins4. Belly River enclave is added to the data set.-----------Update layer January 24, 2014 with these edits:1. Add Marias Pass 'excluded' area; 100-ft buffer of RR turnaround.2. Extend HQ area 'excluded' polygon to river /park bdy3. Create Dev Area footprints for Road Camp & Packer's Roost; buffer 300-ft and add to 'excluded'.----------Update layer January 13, 2014 with these edits:1. Bowman CG - add admin road missed, 2. Walton - remove exclusion area between road buffer and boundary, and 3. Swiftcurrent - include Swiftcurrent+Josephine Lakes as excluded, plus bump-out areas for boat storage and creek used to ferry supplies from Swift. Lake to Josephine Lake.---------Update layer April 15-18, 2014 with these additions/edits:1. Create developed area for Apgar Lookout; buffer 300-ft.2. Create developed area for 1913 Ranger Station (St Mary); buffer 300-ft.3. Add 2 monitoring wells in St Mary Flats (foot of lake south of GTSR); buffer 25-ft and connect to 'excluded area' polygon4. Add water source point for Many Glacier winter cabin (north of MG road near hotel jct; buffer 25-ft and add to 'excluded area' polygon5. Buffer McCarthy Homestead structures 100-ft and add to Excluded Area polygon for Inside North Fork Rd6. Buffer Ford Creek cabin structures 100-ft and add to Excluded Area polygon for Inside North Fork Rd7. Buffer Baring Crek cabin structures 100-ft and add to Excluded Area polygon Going to the Sun Rd8. Add to Excluded Area a strip of land 60-ft south of the International Boundary (per 1974 Wilderness proposal & MOU with GLAC and Int'l Boundary Comm).---------Updated layer 5/27/2014 - add approx. 2 acres to 'Excluded fro mWilderness' near the St Mary River bridge along GTSR. This sliver of land was included to utilize the river bank as a visible and distinguishable boundary in the field.

© NPS, Glacier NP GIS Program

This layer is a component of Glacier National Park.

This map service provides layers covering a variety of different datasets and themes for Glacier National Park. It is meant to be consumed by internet mapping applications and for general reference. It is for internal NPS use only. Produced November 2014.

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Wilderness Intensive Inventory

This shapefile contains boundaries for Designated Wilderness in Chiricahua National Monument, Arizona as of 2021. This dataset is based on the map identified in the law enacting wilderness for the park and the 850 acre wilderness land addition in 1984. The date of the original enactment map is 10/20/1976. The Congressionally Designated Wilderness is based on careful study of roadless areas, public hearings, and written responses. This dataset has been revised from the map to adjust buffers along roads and utilities, account for changes to the boundary and land status, and reflect more accurate measurement available through new GIS technology. Land added to the boundary after the 1976 enactment, except as noted, has not been studied for wilderness. In May of 1984, Congress added adjacent U.S. Forest Service land that was made wilderness at the same time. This dataset identifies 10,629 acres within Chiricahua National Monument as Designated Wilderness. This dataset identifies 0 acres within Chiricahua National Monument as Potential Wilderness (2 acres in 1977). The dataset did not contain the 2 acres because the map identified in the law enacting wilderness for the park did not show its location, however, the 2 acres still exist. This map was updated February 2021 using NAD 83 zone 12N and 40 feet contours created from a 10m DEM in conjunction with the 1976 map.

This map features Class I Wilderness Areas managed by the Forest Service. The pop-up for each Class I Wilderness Area takes users to the corresponding Wilderness page on the... Air Resource Management Program website featuring 1) data sources and monitoring networks, 2) resource concern thresholds for several air quality related values (AQRVs), and 3) natural background visibility summary tables.Wilderness Connect website featuring descriptions, maps, photos, and more.USDA is an equal opportunity provider, employer, and lender.

This dataset was created in conjunction with PLM25, to represent the management overlays. The attributes are based on the PLM25 structure. The overlays have been mapped at 1:25 000, using VicMap topographic data to create more accurate and identifiable boundaries.

PLM25_OVERLAYS is located under the CROWNLAND schema. It has been created in conjunction with PLM25 to ensure the overlays match the PLM25 land management categories.

PLEASE NOTE: This dataset now replaces the PLM100 overlays.

PLM25_OVERLAYS have been created by loading Reference areas, wilderness zones, heritage rivers, remote and natural areas and natural catchment areas into one dataset. They are also available as separate datasets.

This dataset is a representation of the certified plans - the gazettal and certified plans are the official boundaries.

Currently the creation process is not automated or synchronised with PLM25 updates. For more information please contact the Information Services Division.

This map layer consists of National Wilderness Preservation System areas of 640 acres or more, in the United States, Puerto Rico, and the U.S. Virgin Islands. The map layer was created by extracting these wilderness areas from the National Atlas map layer: Federal Lands of the United States. This is a replacement for the December 2005 map layer.

Abstract: This map layer consists of National Wilderness Preservation System areas of 640 acres or more, in the United States, Puerto Rico, and the U.S. Virgin Islands. The map layer was created by extracting these wilderness areas from the National Atlas map layer: Federal Lands of the United States. This is a replacement for the December 2004, map layer. Purpose: These data are intended for geographic display and analysis at the national level, and for large regional areas. The data should be displayed and analyzed at scales appropriate for 1:2,000,000-scale data. No responsibility is assumed by the National Atlas of the United States in the use of these data.

This dataset presents aggregated wildlife accident statistics for large mammals, either collected as “Klövvilt” (excl. reindeer) or “All cloven-hoofed animals” (incl. reindeer), or for the respective species (elk, deer, wild boar, deer, deer and red deer) for a period of five years. The material consists of vector data. The material is based on reported wildlife accidents to the police and hunting reports according to the National Wildlife Accident Council. The material is presented as a complete set of GIS files for external actors at the Last Quay. The material is supplied with a.lyr file for each five-year period. These control visualisation and help in interpreting the material.

Athough MassGIS has served trails information from the Department of Conservation and Recreation (DCR) for many years, this new Trails layer is MassGIS’ first attempt at a statewide, multi-sourced dataset. This layer was created from two primary sources, DCR Trails and the Metropolitan Area Planning Council’s (MAPC) Trailmap. Additionally, a few other trail networks were added from OpenStreetMap (OSM), municipalities, and conservation organizations, but the amount of information from these sources is relatively small.This trails dataset was created for use in the State 9-1-1 Department’s mapping application Response Assist and is intended to assist telecommunicators with lost hikers as well as potentially responding to emergencies within remote areas. Because the layer is primarily being used by 9-1-1, it was decided to focus on those trails found in wilderness areas and used as hiking trails. This resulted in the omission of many arcs from the source data. Examples of these include cart paths on golf courses, the network of paved paths on school campuses, sidewalks, and many other arcs that could functionally serve as trails but were in relatively open and developed areas.Updated with linework from OpenStreetMap in summer 2023 and published on November 14, 2023.See full metadata.Map service also available.