Major Land Resource Areas (MLRA)

Description

This is a polygon coverage of the Land Resource Regions and Major Land Resource Areas of the conterminous United States. Land resource regions are geographic areas that are characterized by a particular pattern of soils, climate, water resources and land uses. (USDA, Soil Conservation Service, 1981). Major land resource areas are subregions of the land resource regions and comprise smaller homogeneous areas. The scale of this coverage is 1:2,000,000. Note: The Soil Conservation Service now (1995) is called the Natural Resources Conservation Service. Descriptors: Land Resource Regions Major Land Resource Areas United States

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Name Format Description Link
55 Landing page for access to the data https://doi.org/10.5066/P9C2I3VQ
55 Landing page for access to the data https://doi.org/10.5066/P9C2I3VQ
55 Landing page for access to the data https://doi.org/10.5066/P9C2I3VQ
55 Landing page for access to the data https://doi.org/10.5066/P9C2I3VQ
55 Landing page for access to the data https://doi.org/10.5066/P9C2I3VQ
55 Landing page for access to the data https://doi.org/10.5066/P9C2I3VQ
55 Landing page for access to the data https://doi.org/10.5066/P9C2I3VQ
55 The metadata original format https://data.usgs.gov/datacatalog/metadata/USGS.9b1592e8-a33b-4ec4-8e54-33a4bf74c17c.xml

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  • environment
  • usgs-9b1592e8-a33b-4ec4-8e54-33a4bf74c17c
  • geoscientificinformation
  • inlandwaters
  • major-land-resource-areas
  • land-resource-regions

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