Protected Areas Database of the United States (PAD-US) 2.1 Summary Statistics by Public Access Category

Publication Date

2021-10-04

Time Period

2021-05-31

U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) Gap Analysis Project (GAP), 2021, Protected Areas Database of the United States (PAD-US) 2.1 Summary Statistics by Public Access Category: U.S. Geological Survey data release, https://doi.org/10.5066/P9KJLB3Q.

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This summary of the PAD-US is created to provide land managers and decision makers with a general assessment of public access across the nation, as represented by the Public Access Category. Area statistics include total acreage, acres by managing agency, and percent access. Where Public Access is “Unknown”, area totals include both places classified in the PAD-US as Unknown (e.g. private easements) and the remainder of the relevant jurisdictional area summarized in the Summary Statistics by Public Access Category spreadsheets (largely private land). The full PAD-US inventory includes many designated areas that overlap in a given place (e.g. National Monument in a National Forest) and represent many values in the public interest (e.g. National Parks, urban parks, farmland easements, historic sites). For example, Protection Status by GAP Status Code statistical summaries are also available to provide a general assessment of management intent to protect biodiversity across the nation and identify areas managed for multiple uses, including natural resource extraction, as represented by the GAP Status Code (Protected Areas Database of the United States (PAD-US) 2.1 Summary Statistics by GAP Status Code associated items of PAD-US 2.1 Spatial Analysis and Statistics, 2021; https://doi.org/10.5066/P9KJLB3Q).

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