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 -- Linda Zellmer Government Information & Data Services Librarian Liaison to Natural Sciences & Agriculture 415 Malpass Library Macomb, IL 61455 [log in to unmask] Phone: 309-298-2723 <callto:309-298-2723> Fax: 309-298-2791 <callto:309-298-2791>