Hello,

I thought that you might want to know about a dataset that is being
presented at the FGDC Coordination Group today. It is the Protected Areas
Database of the United States (https://gapanalysis.usgs.gov/padus/)

According to the Factsheet for the dataset (
https://pubs.usgs.gov/fs/2013/3086/), it is "The Protected Areas Database
of the United States (PADUS) is the official inventory of public parks and
other protected open space. With more than 3 billion acres in 150,000
holdings, the spatial data in PAD-US represents public lands held in trust
by thousands of national, State and regional/local governments, as well as
non-profit conservation organizations."

It is possible to download data for the entire US or a state from the Data
page. Data can be downloaded in Shapefile or Geodatabase format (the
Geodatabase format provides an MXD that can be opened to view the data).

I thought others might find it of interest. Linda Zellmer

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