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Resource Abstract:
- description: The Protected Areas Database of the United States (PAD-US) is a geodatabase, managed by U. S. Geological Survey
Gap Analysis Program, that illustrates and describes public land ownership, management and other conservation lands, including
voluntarily provided privately protected areas. Please note that PAD-US version 1.4 is now the most current version available.
Please access PAD-US 1.4 here: http://gapanalysis.usgs.gov/padus/data/. The geodatabase contains four feature classes such
as, ‘Marine Protected Areas (MPA)’ and ‘Easements’ that each contains uniquely associated attributes.
These two feature classes are combined with the PAD-US ‘Fee’ feature class to provide a full inventory of protected
areas in a common schema (i.e. ‘Combined’ file). Legitimate and other protected area overlaps exist in the full
inventory, with Easements loaded on top of Fee and MPAs under both. Parcel data within a protected area are dissolved in this
file that powers the PAD-US Viewer. As overlaps exist, GAP creates separate analytical layers to summarize area statistics
for "GAP Status Code" and "Owner Name". Contact the PAD-US Coordinator for more information. 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 area's inclusion into UNEP-World Conservation
Monitoring Centre's World Database for Protected Areas. IUCN protected areas are defined as, "A 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 values" 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. The geodatabase contains a Marine Protected Area (MPA)
feature class and Easements feature class, each with uniquely associated attribute. These two feature classes are combined
with the PAD-US fee feature class with standard PAD-US attributes to provide a full inventory of protected areas in a common
schema. As legitimate and other overlaps exist in the combined inventory GAP creates separate analytical layers to obtain
area statistics for "GAP Status Code" and "Owner Name". PAD-US version 1.3 Combined updates include: 1)
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 Commonwealth's 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). 2) 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. 3) A new “Date of Establishment” 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. 4) A national wilderness area update from wilderness.net 5) The ”Access” field that
describes public access to protected areas as defined by data stewards or categorical assignment by Primary Designation Type.
. The new “Access Source” field documents local vs. categorical assignments. See the PAD-US Standard Manual for
more information: gapanalysis.usgs.gov/padus 6) 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 7) 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 'Stacked' = Y and
multiple easements exist. 8) Unique ID's 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. 9) 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.(ei; abstract: The Protected Areas Database of the
United States (PAD-US) is a geodatabase, managed by U. S. Geological Survey Gap Analysis Program, that illustrates and describes
public land ownership, management and other conservation lands, including voluntarily provided privately protected areas.
Please note that PAD-US version 1.4 is now the most current version available. Please access PAD-US 1.4 here: http://gapanalysis.usgs.gov/padus/data/.
The geodatabase contains four feature classes such as, ‘Marine Protected Areas (MPA)’ and ‘Easements’
that each contains uniquely associated attributes. These two feature classes are combined with the PAD-US ‘Fee’
feature class to provide a full inventory of protected areas in a common schema (i.e. ‘Combined’ file). Legitimate
and other protected area overlaps exist in the full inventory, with Easements loaded on top of Fee and MPAs under both. Parcel
data within a protected area are dissolved in this file that powers the PAD-US Viewer. As overlaps exist, GAP creates separate
analytical layers to summarize area statistics for "GAP Status Code" and "Owner Name". Contact the PAD-US
Coordinator for more information. 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 area's inclusion into UNEP-World Conservation Monitoring Centre's World Database for Protected Areas.
IUCN protected areas are defined as, "A 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
values" 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. The geodatabase contains a Marine Protected Area (MPA) feature class and Easements feature class, each with uniquely
associated attribute. These two feature classes are combined with the PAD-US fee feature class with standard PAD-US attributes
to provide a full inventory of protected areas in a common schema. As legitimate and other overlaps exist in the combined
inventory GAP creates separate analytical layers to obtain area statistics for "GAP Status Code" and "Owner
Name". PAD-US version 1.3 Combined updates include: 1) 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 Commonwealth's 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). 2) 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. 3) A new “Date
of Establishment” 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. 4) A national wilderness area
update from wilderness.net 5) The ”Access” field that describes public access to protected areas as defined by data
stewards or categorical assignment by Primary Designation Type. . The new “Access Source” field documents local
vs. categorical assignments. See the PAD-US Standard Manual for more information: gapanalysis.usgs.gov/padus 6) 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 7) 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 'Stacked' = Y and multiple easements exist. 8) Unique ID's 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. 9) 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.(ei
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- Title Protected Areas Database of the United States (PAD-US) - Combined: Version 1.3.
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2018-05-10T05:09:59.180274
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