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Protected Areas Database of the United States (PAD-US) 3.0 (ver. 2.0, March 2023)

Domain: Land Cover

Variables: Protected Areas

Spatial Resolution: 1:100,000

Temporal Frequency: NA

Temporal Coverage: 2005 - 2020

Spatial Extent: CONUS

Source: USGS

Update Type: Static

Update Frequency: NA

Update Detail: NA

Access:

Description:

The PAD-US inventory of public land and other terrestrial and marine protected areas, compiling “best available” data provided by managing agencies and organizations. The PAD-US geodatabase maps and describes areas with over twenty-five attributes in nine feature classes to support data management, queries, web mapping services, and analyses. The USGS Protected Areas Database of the United States (PAD-US) is the nation’s inventory of protected areas, including public land and voluntarily provided private protected areas, identified as an A-16 National Geospatial Data Asset in the Cadastre Theme ( https://communities.geoplatform.gov/ngda-cadastre/ ) . The PAD-US is an ongoing project with several published versions of a spatial database including areas dedicated to the preservation of biological diversity, and other natural (including extraction), recreational, or cultural uses, managed for these purposes through legal or other effective means.

Citation:

U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) Gap Analysis Project (GAP), 2022, Protected Areas Database of the United States (PAD-US) 3.0 (ver. 2.0, March 2023): U.S. Geological Survey data release, https://doi.org/10.5066/P9Q9LQ4B .