Region 3 National Forest Boundaries (NM and AZ)

Description

A feature class describing the spatial location of the administrative boundary of the lands managed by the Forest Supervisor's office. An area encompassing all the National Forest System lands administered by an administrative unit. The area encompasses private lands, other governmental agency lands, and may contain National Forest System lands within the proclaimed boundaries of another administrative unit. All National Forest System lands fall within one and only one Administrative Forest Area. This dataset is derived from the USFS Southwestern Region ALP (Automated Lands Program) data Project. This is one of six layers derived from ALP for the purpose of supplying data layers for recourse GIS analysis and data needs within the Forest Service. The six layers are Surface Ownership, Administrative Forest Boundary, District Boundary, Townships, Sections, and Wilderness. There were some gapes in the ALP data so a small portion of this dataset comes from CCF (Cartographic Feature Files) datasets and the USFS Southwestern Region Core Data Project. ALP data is developed from data sources of differing accuracy, scales, and reliability. Where available it is developed from GCDB (Geographic Coordinate Data Base) data. GCDB data is maintained by the Bureau of Land Management in their State Offices. GCDB data is mostly corner data. Not all corners and not all boundaries are available in GCDB so ALP also utilizes many other data sources like CFF data to derive its boundaries. GCDB data is in a constant state of change because land corners are always getting resurveyed. The GCDB data used in this dataset represents a snapshot in time at the time the GCDB dataset was published by the BLM and may not reflect the most current GCDB dataset available. The Forest Service makes no expressed or implied warranty with respect to the character, function, or capabilities of these data. These data are intended to be used for planning and analyses purposes only and are not legally binding with regards to title or location of National Forest System lands.

Resources

Name Format Description Link
55 FGDC-STD-001-1998.xml http://gstore.unm.edu/apps/rgisarchive/datasets/8dba1643-d47e-4b38-bfda-281bdbb80f5a/metadata/FGDC-STD-001-1998.xml
21 FGDC-STD-001-1998.html http://gstore.unm.edu/apps/rgisarchive/datasets/8dba1643-d47e-4b38-bfda-281bdbb80f5a/metadata/FGDC-STD-001-1998.html
55 ISO-19115:2003.xml http://gstore.unm.edu/apps/rgisarchive/datasets/8dba1643-d47e-4b38-bfda-281bdbb80f5a/metadata/ISO-19115:2003.xml
21 ISO-19115:2003.html http://gstore.unm.edu/apps/rgisarchive/datasets/8dba1643-d47e-4b38-bfda-281bdbb80f5a/metadata/ISO-19115:2003.html
57 r3_forest.original.zip http://gstore.unm.edu/apps/rgisarchive/datasets/8dba1643-d47e-4b38-bfda-281bdbb80f5a/r3_forest.original.zip

Tags

  • sitgreaves
  • surface ownership
  • sections
  • townships
  • wilderness
  • prescott
  • carson
  • coronado
  • santa fe
  • proclaimed boundary
  • new mexico
  • united states forest service
  • texas
  • tonto
  • ranger district boundaries
  • apache
  • arizona
  • kaibab
  • coconino
  • oklahoma
  • gila
  • lincoln
  • administrative boundaries
  • cibola

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