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 "snippet": "The PAD-US geodatabase was originally developed to organize and assess the management status (i.e. apply 'GAP Status Code') of elements of biodiversity protection by identifying species and plant communities not adequately represented in existing conservation lands. In cooperation with the United Nations Environment Programme World Conservation Monitoring Centre (UNEP-WCMC), PAD-US also supports global conservation analyses to inform policy decisions. The dataset is robust and has been expanded in recent years, culminating in major additions to PAD-US 2.1, to support the recreation, natural resource management, wildfire, emergency management, transportation, research, and public health communities. New applications are frequently discovered. Multiple attributes and a flexible database structure provide context for data to be used at local (depending on inventory completeness in the local area), regional, state, national, and international scales. See https://usgs.gov/gapanalysis/PAD-US-resources for more information.",
 "description": "The USGS Protected Areas Database of the United States (PAD-US) is the nation's inventory of protected areas, including public land and voluntarily provided private protected areas, identified as an A-16 National Geospatial Data Asset in the Cadastre Theme (https://communities.geoplatform.gov/ngda-cadastre/). The PAD-US is an ongoing project with several published versions of a spatial database including areas dedicated to the preservation of biological diversity, and other natural (including extraction), recreational, or cultural uses, managed for these purposes through legal or other effective means. The database was originally designed to support biodiversity assessments; however, its scope expanded in recent years to include all public and nonprofit lands and waters. Most are public lands owned in fee (the owner of the property has full and irrevocable ownership of the land); however, long-term easements, leases, agreements, Congressional (e.g. 'Wilderness Area'), Executive (e.g. 'National Monument'), and administrative designations (e.g. 'Area of Critical Environmental Concern') documented in agency management plans are also included. The PAD-US strives to be a complete inventory of public land and other protected areas, compiling \u201cbest available\u201d data provided by managing agencies and organizations. The PAD-US geodatabase maps and describes areas using over twenty-five attributes and five feature classes representing the U.S. protected areas network in separate feature classes: Fee (ownership parcels), Designation, Easement, Marine, Proclamation and Other Planning Boundaries. Five additional feature classes include various combinations of the primary layers (for example, Combined_Fee_Easement) to support data management, queries, web mapping services, and analyses. This PAD-US Version 2.1 dataset includes a variety of updates and new data from the previous Version 2.0 dataset (USGS, 2018 https://doi.org/10.5066/P955KPLE ), achieving the primary goal to \"Complete the PAD-US Inventory by 2020\" (https://www.usgs.gov/core-science-systems/science-analytics-and-synthesis/gap/science/pad-us-vision) by addressing known data gaps with newly available data. The following list summarizes the integration of \"best available\" spatial data to ensure public lands and other protected areas from all jurisdictions are represented in PAD-US, along with continued improvements and regular maintenance of the federal theme. Completing the PAD-US Inventory: 1) Integration of over 75,000 city parks in all 50 States (and the District of Columbia) from The Trust for Public Land's (TPL) ParkServe data development initiative (https://parkserve.tpl.org/) added nearly 2.7 million acres of protected area and significantly reduced the primary known data gap in previous PAD-US versions (local government lands). 2) First-time integration of the Census American Indian/Alaskan Native Areas (AIA) dataset (https://www2.census.gov/geo/tiger/TIGER2019/AIANNH) representing the boundaries for federally recognized American Indian reservations and off-reservation trust lands across the nation (as of January 1, 2020, as reported by the federally recognized tribal governments through the Census Bureau's Boundary and Annexation Survey) addressed another major PAD-US data gap. 3) Aggregation of nearly 5,000 protected areas owned by local land trusts in 13 states, aggregated by Ducks Unlimited through data calls for easements to update the National Conservation Easement Database (https://www.conservationeasement.us/), increased PAD-US protected areas by over 350,000 acres. Maintaining regular Federal updates: 1) Major update of the Federal estate (fee ownership parcels, easement interest, and management designations), including authoritative data from 8 agencies: Bureau of Land Management (BLM), U.S. Census Bureau (Census), Department of Defense (DOD), U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service (FWS), National Park Service (NPS), Natural Resources Conservation Service (NRCS), U.S. Forest Service (USFS), National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA). The federal theme in PAD-US is developed in close collaboration with the Federal Geographic Data Committee (FGDC) Federal Lands Working Group (FLWG, https://communities.geoplatform.gov/ngda-govunits/federal-lands-workgroup/); 2) Complete National Marine Protected Areas (MPA) update: from the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) MPA Inventory, including conservation measure ('GAP Status Code', 'IUCN Category') review by NOAA; Other changes: 1) PAD-US field name change - The \"Public Access\" field name changed from 'Access' to 'Pub_Access' to avoid unintended scripting errors associated with the script command 'access'. 2) Additional field - The \"Feature Class\" (FeatClass) field was added to all layers within PAD-US 2.1 (only included in the \"Combined\" layers of PAD-US 2.0 to describe which feature class data originated from). 3) Categorical GAP Status Code default changes - National Monuments are categorically assigned GAP Status Code = 2 (previously GAP 3), in the absence of other information, to better represent biodiversity protection restrictions associated with the designation. The Bureau of Land Management Areas of Environmental Concern (ACECs) are categorically assigned GAP Status Code = 3 (previously GAP 2) as the areas are administratively protected, not permanent. More information is available upon request. 4) Agency Name (FWS) geodatabase domain description changed to U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service (previously U.S. Fish & Wildlife Service). 5) Select areas in the provisional PAD-US 2.1 Proclamation feature class were removed following a consultation with the data-steward (Census Bureau). Tribal designated statistical areas are purely a geographic area for providing Census statistics with no land base. Most affected areas are relatively small; however, 4,341,120 acres and 37 records were removed in total. Contact Mason Croft (masoncroft@boisestate) for more information about how to identify these records. For more information regarding the PAD-US dataset please visit, https://usgs.gov/gapanalysis/PAD-US/. For more information about data aggregation please review the Online PAD-US Data Manual available at https://www.usgs.gov/core-science-systems/science-analytics-and-synthesis/gap/pad-us-data-manual .",
 "summary": "The PAD-US geodatabase was originally developed to organize and assess the management status (i.e. apply 'GAP Status Code') of elements of biodiversity protection by identifying species and plant communities not adequately represented in existing conservation lands. In cooperation with the United Nations Environment Programme World Conservation Monitoring Centre (UNEP-WCMC), PAD-US also supports global conservation analyses to inform policy decisions. The dataset is robust and has been expanded in recent years, culminating in major additions to PAD-US 2.1, to support the recreation, natural resource management, wildfire, emergency management, transportation, research, and public health communities. New applications are frequently discovered. Multiple attributes and a flexible database structure provide context for data to be used at local (depending on inventory completeness in the local area), regional, state, national, and international scales. See https://usgs.gov/gapanalysis/PAD-US-resources for more information.",
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  "Land Stewardship",
  "New Jersey (NJ)",
  "2015",
  "South Carolina (SC)",
  "Forest Service",
  "Kentucky (KY)",
  "2005",
  "Cadastre Theme",
  "Iowa (IA)",
  "Minnesota (MN)",
  "Gap Analysis",
  "2010",
  "Bureau of Reclamation",
  "Department of Energy",
  "2007",
  "Tennessee (TN)",
  "Alaska (AK)",
  "Land Ownership",
  "Protected Area",
  "West Virginia (WV)",
  "Mariana Islands (MP)",
  "Puerto Rico (PR)",
  "New Mexico (NM)",
  "Tennessee Valley Authority",
  "Indiana (IN)",
  "2017",
  "State Lands",
  "Public Open Space",
  "Delaware (DE)",
  "Oregon (OR)",
  "U.S. Minor Outlying Islands (UM)",
  "Protection Status",
  "Local Government Lands",
  "NGDA",
  "NGDA Portfolio Themes",
  "Hawaii (HI)",
  "Land Manager",
  "2006",
  "Bureau of Land Management",
  "Army Corps of Engineers",
  "Utah (UT)",
  "National Park Service",
  "North Dakota (ND)",
  "Arizona (AZ)",
  "Colorado (CO)",
  "2012",
  "Private Lands",
  "Kansas (KS)",
  "Land-Use Change",
  "Oklahoma (OK)",
  "2011",
  "Georgia (GA)",
  "Idaho (ID)",
  "Washington (WA)",
  "2009",
  "United States",
  "2020",
  "Connecticut (CT)",
  "Arkansas (AR)",
  "Texas (TX)",
  "Louisiana (LA)",
  "Wyoming (WY)",
  "Maryland (MD)",
  "Florida (FL)",
  "Public Health",
  "Nevada (NV)",
  "2014",
  "Parks",
  "Governmental Units",
  "Missouri (MO)",
  "Alabama (AL)",
  "Conservation",
  "South Dakota (SD)",
  "Outdoor Recreation",
  "United States",
  "Federal Lands",
  "Ohio (OH)",
  "Montana (MT)",
  "Wisconsin (WI)",
  "Biodiversity",
  "New Hampshire (NH)",
  "Virginia (VA)",
  "2008",
  "Department of Defense",
  "Agricultural Research Service",
  "American Samoa (AS)",
  "Illinois (IL)",
  "Guam (GU)",
  "Maine (ME)",
  "Nebraska (NE)",
  "Marshall Islands (MH)",
  "Federated States of Micronesia (FM)",
  "IUCN Category",
  "Massachusetts (MA)",
  "California (CA)",
  "Public Lands",
  "New York (NY)",
  "National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration",
  "Mississippi (MS)",
  "2018",
  "North Carolina (NC)",
  "U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service",
  "Michigan (MI)",
  "Palau (PW)",
  "Vermont (VT)",
  "Rhode Island (RI)",
  "Natural Resources Conservation Service",
  "2013",
  "2019",
  "GAP Status Code",
  "National Geospatial Data Asset",
  "Pennsylvania (PA)",
  "2016",
  "United States Virgin Islands (VI)",
  "Geography"
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 "accessInformation": "U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) Gap Analysis Project (GAP), 2020, Protected Areas Database of the United States (PAD-US) 2.1: U.S. Geological Survey data release, https://doi.org/10.5066/P92QM3NT",
 "licenseInfo": "The Digital Object Identifier https://doi.org/10.5066/P92QM3NT for PAD-US 2.1 provides the persistent reference that should be used to obtain the data for use. The U.S. Geological Survey and all contributing data partners shall not be held liable for improper or incorrect use of the data described and (or) contained herein. All information is created with a specific end use or uses in mind. This is especially true for GIS data, which is expensive to produce and must be directed to meet the immediate program needs. These data were created with the expectation that they would be used for other applications; however, inappropriate uses are listed below. This list is in no way exhaustive but should serve as a guide to assess whether a proposed use can or cannot be supported by these data. For many uses, it is unlikely that PAD-US will provide the only data needed, and for uses with a regulatory outcome, authoritative agency data and field surveys should verify the result. PAD-US is recommended for users seeking general information about more than one agency or organization's lands. Users should seek authoritative source data directly to answer questions regarding one agency or those requiring more frequent updates. Ultimately, it will be the responsibility of each data user to determine if these data can answer the question being asked. Furthermore, the database is released on condition that neither the USGS nor the U.S. Government shall be held liable for any damages resulting from its authorized or unauthorized use. Inappropriate uses include: Using PAD-US for applications or analyses associated with one agency or a particular unit (agencies are always the best and authoritative source of their land data and many publish updates more frequently than PAD-US). Using some data to map small areas, typically requiring mapping resolution at 1:24,000 scale as boundary quality varies by data source (See \"State of PAD-US Data\" - a graphical summary of inventory completeness, appropriate scale, and update frequency at: https://communities.geoplatform.gov/ngda-govunits/wp-content/uploads/2019/09/USGS-base-map-memo.17.pdf) and using aerial photographs or ground surveys in areas where data are incomplete. Combining these data with other data finer than 1:100,000 scale (except for select federal agencies or states identified in \"State of PAD-US Data\") to produce new hybrid maps or answer queries. Generating specific areal measurements from the data finer than the nearest thousand hectares. Representing boundaries as a legal representation for regulation or acquisition. Establishing definite occurrence or non-occurrence of any feature for an exact geographic area. Determining abundance, health, or condition of any feature. Using the data without acquiring and reviewing the metadata.",
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