Protected Areas Database of the U.S. version 1.4

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Publication Date

2016-05

Summary

The Protected Areas Database of the United States (PAD-US) is the official inventory of protected open space in the United States. With over 3 billion acres in thousands of holdings, the spatial data in PAD-US include public lands, overlapping management designations, and Marine Protected Areas held in trust by national, state, some local governments, and by some nonprofit conservation organizations.

Summary

The Protected Areas Database of the United States (PAD-US) is the official inventory of protected open space in the United States. With over 3 billion acres in thousands of holdings, the spatial data in PAD-US include public lands, overlapping management designations, and Marine Protected Areas held in trust by national, state, some local governments, and by some nonprofit conservation organizations.

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• PADUS by Access
• PADUS by GAP Status
• PADUS by Manager Name
• PADUS by Manager Type
• Protected Areas by Manager

Contacts

Data Owner :

Gap Analysis Program (GAP), Biogeographic Characterization, Core Science Analytics, Synthesis and Libraries, Core Science Systems

Author :

Lisa Johnson, Mason J Croft

Principal Investigator :

Kevin J Gergely

Co-Investigator :

Julie S Prior-Magee

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Data Download, Metadata and Reports

http://gapanalysis.usgs.gov/padus/data/

Purpose

This ScienceBase Item provides a Bioscape in the Biogeographic Information System. Bioscapes provide logical collections of data resources that work together to tell a particular story or provide some type of application functionality. This Bioscape for PAD-US provides the various data views available from the data system for online interaction in a map viewer.

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