Protected Areas Ownership Map Service - Protected Areas Database of the United States (PADUS) version 1.3
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<div> The Protected Areas Database of the United States (PAD-US) is a geodatabase that illustrates and describes public land
ownership, management and conservation lands nationally, including voluntarily provided privately protected areas. This ArcGIS
map service is pulled from the USGS PADUS site into DataBasin for visualization purposes. </div> <div>
<br /> </div> <div> Â The lands included in PAD-US are assigned conservation measures that qualify their intent
to manage lands for the preservation of biological diversity and to other natural, recreational and cultural uses; managed
for these purposes through legal or other effective means. The geodatabase includes: 1) Geographic boundaries of public land
ownership and voluntarily provided private conservation lands (e.g., Nature Conservancy Preserves); 2) The combination land
owner, land manager, management designation or type, parcel name, GIS Acres and source of geographic information of each mapped
land unit 3) GAP Status Code conservation measure of each parcel based on USGS National Gap Analysis Program (GAP) protection
level categories which provide a measurement of management intent for long-term biodiversity conservation 4) IUCN category
for a protected areaâs inclusion into UNEP-World Conservation Monitoring Centreâs World Database for Protected
Areas. IUCN protected areas are defined as, âA clearly defined geographical space, recognized, dedicated and managed,
through legal or other effective means, to achieve the long-term conservation of nature with associated ecosystem services
and cultural valuesâ and are categorized following a classification scheme available through USGS GAP; 5) World Database
of Protected Areas (WDPA) Site Codes linking the multiple parcels of a single protected area in PAD-US and connecting them
to the Global Community. <br /> </div> <div> <br /> </div> <div> PAD-US version 1.3 Combined updates include: </div> <div>
<ol> <li>State, local government and private protected area updates delivered September 2011 from PAD-US State Data Stewards:
CO (Colorado State University), FL (Florida Natural Areas Inventory), ID (Idaho Fish and Game), MA (The Commonwealthâs
Office of Geographic Information Systems, MassGIS), MO (University of Missouri, MoRAP), MT (Montana Natural Heritage Program),
NM (Natural Heritage New Mexico), OR (Oregon Natural Heritage Program), VA (Department of Conservation and Recreation, Virginia
Natural Heritage Program).<br /></li> <li>Select local government (i.e. county, city) protected areas (3,632) across the country
(to complement the current PAD-US inventory) aggregated by the Trust for Public Land (TPL) for their Conservation Almanac
that tracks the conservation finance movement across the country.<br /></li> <li>A new ÂDate of EstablishmentÂ
field that identifies the year an area was designated or otherwise protected, attributed for 86% of GAP Status Code 1 and
2 protected areas. Additional dates will be provided in future updates.<br /></li> <li>A national wilderness area update from
wilderness.net<br /></li> <li>The ÂÂAccess field that describes public access to protected areas as defined
by data stewards or categorical assignment by Primary Designation Type. . The new ÂAccess Source field documents
local vs. categorical assignments. See the PAD-US Standard Manual for more information: gapanalysis.usgs.gov/padus<br /></li>
<li>The transfer of conservation measures (i.e. GAP Status Codes, IUCN Categories) and documentation (i.e. GAP Code Source,
GAP Code Date) from PAD-US version 1.2 or categorical assignments (see PAD-US Standard) when not provided by data stewards<br
/></li> <li>Integration of non-sensitive National Conservation Easement Database (NCED) easements from August 2011, July 2012
with PAD-US version 1.2 easements. Duplicates were removed, unless âStackedâ = Y and multiple easements exist.<br
/></li> <li>Unique IDâs transferred from NCED or requested for new easements. NCED and PAD-US are linked via Source
UID in the PAD-US version 1.3 Easement feature class.<br /></li> <li>Official (member and eligible) MPAs from the NOAA MPA
Inventory (March 2011, www.mpa.gov) translated into the PAD-US schema with conservation measures transferred from PAD-US version
1.2 or categorically assigned to new protected areas. Contact the PAD-US Coordinator for documentation of categorical GAP
Status Code assignments for MPAs. 10) Identified MPA records that overlap existing protected areas in the PAD-US Fee feature
class (i.e. PADUS Overlap field in MPA feature class). For example, many National Wildlife Refuges and National Parks are
also MPAs and are represented in the PAD-US MPA and Fee feature classes.<br /></li> </ol> </div>
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Title Protected Areas Ownership Map Service - Protected Areas Database of the United States (PADUS) version 1.3