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Forest Common Names (Feature Layer)

Metadata Updated: August 2, 2024

This dataset contains the common names of the national forests and grasslands and their respective FS WWW URL information that is used for both display of the national forest and national grassland boundaries on any map product and for dynamic interactivity of the map. This dataset exhibits the following characteristics: 1. Granularity of the polygon features - The spatial extent of the national forests and the grasslands match the way the agency would like to communicate with the public. 2. Preferred /Common Name of the National Forest Units - The common names of the national forest and grassland match the preferred name column that is present in the common names decision table maintained by the FS Office of Communication. 3. Hyperlinks to FS WWW Home page - This column contains the national forest and their respective FS WWW URL information. This URL could be used on any interactive map applications to link users directly to a forest's home page. Data Source - This dataset is derived from the following FS ALP (Automated Lands Program) Land Status Records System authoritative data sources: 1. Administrative Forest Boundaries 2. Proclaimed Forest Boundaries 3. Ranger District Boundaries 4. National Grassland Areas. The common names decision table maintained by the FS Office of Communication contains the common name and its respective Land Status Records System authoritative data source to be used for building the spatial polygon. The spatial polygons for every feature in this dataset comes from one or more authoritative data sources listed above. The process to create the common names dataset is reusing the already existing ALP names from the data sources listed above.

Access & Use Information

Public: This dataset is intended for public access and use. License: Creative Commons Attribution

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Dates

Metadata Created Date November 3, 2022
Metadata Updated Date August 2, 2024

Metadata Source

Harvested from USDA JSON

Additional Metadata

Resource Type Dataset
Metadata Created Date November 3, 2022
Metadata Updated Date August 2, 2024
Publisher U.S. Forest Service
Maintainer
Identifier https://www.arcgis.com/home/item.html?id=06ed165cbff74a819a1139d43067a5c1&sublayer=1
Data First Published 2018-04-19
Data Last Modified 2023-05-31
Category geospatial
Public Access Level public
Bureau Code 005:96
Metadata Context https://project-open-data.cio.gov/v1.1/schema/catalog.jsonld
Schema Version https://project-open-data.cio.gov/v1.1/schema
Catalog Describedby https://project-open-data.cio.gov/v1.1/schema/catalog.json
Harvest Object Id d8202c94-4b74-4b49-b8bc-9dd1ad98d8cd
Harvest Source Id d3fafa34-0cb9-48f1-ab1d-5b5fdc783806
Harvest Source Title USDA JSON
Homepage URL https://data-usfs.hub.arcgis.com/maps/usfs::forest-common-names-feature-layer
License https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
Metadata Type geospatial
Old Spatial -150.0080,18.0337,-65.6997,61.5190
Program Code 005:059
Source Datajson Identifier True
Source Hash 6e9d470ae96b416818d3940da2e3c696395f077e037456db08a7ed5525ee94c8
Source Schema Version 1.1
Spatial {"type": "Polygon", "coordinates": -150.0080, 18.0337, -150.0080, 61.5190, -65.6997, 61.5190, -65.6997, 18.0337, -150.0080, 18.0337}

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