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    • National Wilderness Areas: Legal Status (Feature Layer)

    Metadata Updated: July 11, 2025

    The Land Status view of National Forest System land parcels that have legal descriptions such as National Wilderness Area, Primitive Area, or Wilderness Study Area. Areas designated by Congress as a part of the National Wilderness Preservation System, with related details including the date of the designation, status of the final boundary description, authority, and land status case and document. Metadata

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

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    Metadata Created Date November 3, 2022
    Metadata Updated Date July 11, 2025

    Metadata Source

    Harvested from USDA JSON

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    Additional Metadata

    Resource Type Dataset
    Metadata Created Date November 3, 2022
    Metadata Updated Date July 11, 2025
    Publisher U.S. Forest Service
    Maintainer
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    Data First Published 2017-03-16
    Data Last Modified 2022-08-25
    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
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    Harvest Source Id d3fafa34-0cb9-48f1-ab1d-5b5fdc783806
    Harvest Source Title USDA JSON
    Homepage URL https://data-usfs.hub.arcgis.com/datasets/usfs::national-wilderness-areas-legal-status-feature-layer
    License https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
    Metadata Type geospatial
    Old Spatial -139.6362,18.2498,-65.7704,59.9997
    Program Code 005:059
    Progresscode onGoing
    Source Datajson Identifier True
    Source Hash a796ff59af0970261d7f0891f1a85ac3433001607a5a477b6cc7de846f2940b7
    Source Schema Version 1.1
    Spatial {"type": "Polygon", "coordinates": -139.6362, 18.2498, -139.6362, 59.9997, -65.7704, 59.9997, -65.7704, 18.2498, -139.6362, 18.2498}

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