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Watershed Index of Surface Drinking Water |
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Watershed Index of Surface Drinking Water |
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[[-179.229655487448,-14.6101927627387],[179.856674735386,71.4395725901531]] |
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The USDA Forest Service makes no warranty, expressed or implied, including the warranties of merchantability and fitness for a particular purpose, nor assumes any legal liability or responsibility for the accuracy, reliability, completeness or utility of these geospatial data, or for the improper or incorrect use of these geospatial data. These geospatial data and related maps or graphics are not legal documents and are not intended to be used as such. The data and maps may not be used to determine title, ownership, legal descriptions or boundaries, legal jurisdiction, or restrictions that may be in place on either public or private land. Natural hazards may or may not be depicted on the data and maps, and land users should exercise due caution. The data are dynamic and may change over time. The user is responsible to verify the limitations of the geospatial data and to use the data accordingly. |
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["Data","Service","Map Service","ArcGIS Server"] |
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description:
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A map service on the www depicting watershed indexes to help identify areas of interest for protecting surface drinking water quality. The dataset depicted in this map service provides a watershed index of surface drinking water importance, a watershed index of forest importance to surface drinking water, and a watershed index to highlight the extent to which development, fire, and insects and disease threaten forests important for surface drinking water. This tabular dataset is meant to be joined with the NRCS Watershed Boundary Dataset HUC-12. The results of this assessment provides information that can identify areas of interest for protecting surface drinking water quality. The spatial dataset can be incorporated into broad-scale planning, such as the State Forest Action Plans, and can be incorporated into existing decision support tools that currently lack spatial data on important areas for surface drinking water. This project also sets the groundwork for identifying watersheds where a payment for watershed services (PWS) scheme may be an option for financing forest conservation and management on private unprotected forest lands. In perhaps its most important but most basic role, this work can serve as an education tool helping to illustrate the link between forests and provision of key watershed-based ecosystem services. The map service uses a File Geodatabase data source with Web Mercator projection. <a href=http://data.fs.usda.gov/geodata/edw/edw_resources/meta/S_USA.ForestsToFaucets.xml>Metadata</a> |
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title:
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EDW_ForestsToFaucets_01 |
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Map Service |
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tags:
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["forest","water","drinking water","watershed","subwatershed","HUC","HUC12","insect","disease","development","wildland fire","Forest Service","United States"] |
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en-US |
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name:
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EDW_ForestsToFaucets_01 |
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BF13824C-A980-4040-916A-7BB2203B1BE4 |
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GCS_North_American_1983 |