Description: We are choosing to represent local capacity by: 1. Socio-Political Support: Voting History for Environment (Trust for Public Land data) 2. Local Conservation Capacity: Conservation easement % lands protected
Description: This dataset provides eight feature classes. The base feature class is called Counties_cy and isn't generalized. The weighted centroids feature class is called Counties_cy_cent. The centroids are weighted by the U.S. Block Centroids population distribution. Use the weighted centroids in report aggregation and spatial overlay operations. The Counties_cy and Counties_cy_cent feature classes contain all the attributes. There are six generalized boundaries feature classes and called: Counties_cy_gen2, Counties_cy_gen3, Counties_cy_gen4, Counties_cy_gen5, Counties_cy_gen6 and Counties_cy_gen7. Use the generalized boundaries when creating study areas.
Description: We are choosing to represent partner capacity by: 1. Priority Landscapes Identified by our non-profit partners
- National Wild Turkey Federation Priority Areas - NFF Priority Landscapes
- TNC Conservation Priority Areas 2. Landscapes Identified By & Owned by Federal Agencies or Tribal/State
- DOI, DOD, Ownership - Tribal Lands
- State Forest Action Plan Priority Areas (Forest Stewardship Priority Areas from RDW)
- USDA RD Opportunity Zones
Name: National Wild Turkey Federation Priority Areas
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Description: National Wild Turkey Federation - The NWTF has taken a more strategic approach to conservation delivery with the introduction of the Big Six. NWTF conservation experts identified regions across the country with similar ecosystems and conservation issues. These six areas of concern were established to help identify the most urgent needs and better monitor conservation objectives. This will allow the NWTF, and its partners, to better focus limited funding and staff on the top priority conservation needs within each region. The improved system no longer focuses on individual areas, but will impact the sustainability of species and habitats across large landscapes. The areas of distinction within the Big Six include 738 million acres of identified focal landscapes. The NWTF’s limited funds will have a greater impact in meeting the conservation needs within each region. This process will also ensure wild turkey populations, health and stability for future generations.
Copyright Text: National Wild Turkey Federation, US Forest Service
Description: <DIV STYLE="text-align:Left;"><DIV><P><SPAN>A dataset representing fine level manager or administrative agency name standardized for the Nation (USFS, BLM, State Fish and Wildlife, State Parks and Rec, City, NGO, etc). DOD lands shown with outline. Use for categorization by manager name, with detailed federal managers and generic state/local/other managers. ----- 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. The database was originally designed to support biodiversity assessments; however, its scope expanded in recent years to include all public and nonprofit lands and waters. Most are public lands owned in fee; however, long-term easements, leases, agreements, Congressional (e.g. 'Wilderness Area'), Executive (e.g. 'National Monument'), and administrative designations (e.g. 'Area of Critical Environmental Concern') documented in agency management plans are also included. The PAD-US strives to be a complete inventory of public land and other 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. This PAD-US Version 2.0 dataset includes a variety of updates and changes from the previous Version 1.4 dataset. The following list summarizes major updates and changes: 1) Expanded database structure with new layers: the geodatabase feature class structure now includes nine feature classes separating fee owned lands, conservation (and other) easements, management designations overlapping fee lands, marine areas, proclamation boundaries and various 'Combined' feature classes (e.g. 'Fee' + 'Easement' + 'Designation' feature classes); 2) Major update of the Federal estate including data from 8 agencies, developed in collaboration with the Federal Geographic Data Committee (FGDC) Federal Lands Working Group (FLWG, https://communities.geoplatform.gov/ngda-govunits/federal-lands-workgroup/); 3) Major updates to 30 States and limited additions to 16 other States; 4) Integration of The Nature Conservancy's (TNC) Secured Lands geodatabase; 5) Integration of Ducks Unlimited's (DU) Conservation and Recreation Lands (CARL) database; 6) Integration of The Trust for Public Land's (TPL) Conservation Almanac database; 7) The Nature Conservancy (TNC) Lands database update: the national source of lands owned in fee or managed by TNC; 8) National Conservation Easement Database (NCED) update: complete update of non-sensitive (suitable for publication in the public domain) easements; 9) Complete National Marine Protected Areas (MPA) update: from the NOAA MPA Inventory, including conservation measure ('GAP Status Code', 'IUCN Category') review by NOAA; 10) First integration of Bureau of Energy Ocean Management (BOEM) managed marine lands: BOEM submitted Outer Continental Shelf Area lands managed for natural resources (minerals, oil and gas), a significant and new addition to PAD-US; 11) Fee boundary overlap assessment: topology overlaps in the PAD-US 2.0 'Fee' feature class have been identified and are available for user and data-steward reference (See Logical_Consistency_Report Section). For more information regarding the PAD-US dataset please visit, https://gapanalysis.usgs.gov/padus/. For more information about data aggregation please review the “Data Manual for PAD-US” available at https://gapanalysis.usgs.gov/padus/data/manual/ .</SPAN></P></DIV></DIV>
Copyright Text: U.S. Geological Survey, Gap Analysis Project (GAP), September 2018, Protected Areas Database of the United States (PADUS), Version 2.0 Combined Feature Class
Description: TIGER/Line shapefiles are extracts of selected geographic and cartographic information from the U.S. Census Bureau's Master Address File/Topologically Integrated Geographic Encoding and Referencing (MAF/TIGER) database. Current geography in the 2017 TIGER/Line shapefiles generally reflects the boundaries of governmental units in effect as of January 1, 2017, and other legal and statistical area boundaries adjusted and/or corrected since the 2010 Census. The American Indian and Alaska Native Lands (AI/AN Lands) dataset represents a subset of the American Indian, Alaska Native, and Native Hawaiian areas (AIANNHAs) TIGER/Line shapefile for use in Tribal Connections, including the following legal entities: federally recognized American Indian reservations and off-reservation trust land areas. The full Census layer can be obtained from https://www.census.gov/cgi-bin/geo/shapefiles/index.php?year=2017&layergroup=American+Indian+Area+Geography. American Indian and Alaska Native (AI/AN) lands represented in Tribal Connections can then be derived from the Census data by selecting all records by attribute from the AIANNHA shapefile where "AIANNHCE" >= '0010' AND "AIANNHCE" <= '4940'. The information provided below is an excerpt from “Geographic Terms and Concepts - American Indian, Alaska Native, and Native Hawaiian Areas”, available at https://www.census.gov/geo/reference/gtc/gtc_aiannha.html#anrc (accessed 4/27/2018).
American Indian reservations—Federal (federal AIRs) are areas that have been set aside by the United States for the use of tribes, the exterior boundaries of which are more particularly defined in the final tribal treaties, agreements, executive orders, federal statutes, secretarial orders, or judicial determinations. The Bureau of Indian Affairs maintains a list of all federally recognized tribal governments and makes final determination of the inventory of federal AIRs. The Census Bureau recognizes federal reservations (and associated off-reservation trust lands) as territory over which American Indian tribes have primary governmental authority. American Indian reservations can be legally described as colonies, communities, Indian colonies, Indian communities, Indian rancherias, Indian reservations, Indian villages, pueblos, rancherias, ranches, reservations, reserves, settlements, or villages. The Census Bureau contacts representatives of American Indian tribal governments to identify the boundaries for federal reservations through its annual Boundary and Annexation Survey. Federal reservations may cross state and all other area boundaries.
Each federal AIR is assigned a four-digit census code ranging from 0001 through 4799 in alphabetical order of AIR names nationwide. This nation-based census code is the primary unique identifier for the AIR. Each federal AIR also is assigned a five-digit Federal Information Processing Series (FIPS) code and an eight-digit National Standard (ANSI) code. Because FIPS codes are assigned in alphabetical sequence within each state, the FIPS code will be different in each state for reservations that include territory in more than one state.
Alaska Native regional corporations (ANRCs) were created pursuant to the Alaska Native Claims Settlement Act (ANCSA) (Pub. L. 92–203, 85 Stat. 688 [1971]; 43 U.S.C. 1602 et seq. [2000]), enacted in 1971 as a "Regional Corporation" and organized under the laws of the state of Alaska to conduct both the for-profit and non-profit affairs of Alaska Natives within a defined region of Alaska. For the Census Bureau, ANRCs are considered legal geographic entities. Twelve ANRCs cover the entire state of Alaska except for the area within the Annette Island Reserve (a federally recognized American Indian reservation under the governmental authority of the Metlakatla Indian Community). A thirteenth ANRC represents Alaska Natives who do not live in Alaska and do not identify with any of the twelve corporations. The Census Bureau does not provide data for this thirteenth ANRC because it has no defined geographic extent and thus, it does not appear in the TIGER/Line® shapefiles. The Census Bureau offers representatives of the 12 nonprofit ANRCs in Alaska the opportunity to review and update the ANRC boundaries before each decennial census. Each ANRC is assigned a five-digit numeric Federal Information Processing Series (FIPS) code and an eight-digit National Standard (ANSI) code.
Joint-use areas, as applied to any American Indian area by the Census Bureau, means an area that is administered jointly and/or claimed by two or more American Indian tribes. The Census Bureau designates legal joint-use areas as unique geographic entities equivalent to a reservation for the purpose of presenting statistical data. Each is assigned a national four-digit census code ranging from 4800 through 4999 based on the alphabetical sequence of each joint-use area name, a five-digit Federal Information Processing Series (FIPS) code in alphabetical order within state, and an eight-digit National Standard (ANSI) code. No joint-use areas exist in multiple states. Off-reservation trust lands are areas for which the United States holds title in trust for the benefit of a tribe (tribal trust land) or for an individual American Indian (individual trust land). Trust lands can be alienated or encumbered only by the owner with the approval of the Secretary of the Interior or his/her authorized representative. Trust lands may be located on or off a reservation; however, the Census Bureau tabulates data only for off-reservation trust lands with the off-reservation trust lands always associated with a specific federally recognized reservation and/or tribal government. As for federally recognized reservations, the Census Bureau obtains the boundaries of off-reservation trust lands from American Indian tribal governments through its annual Boundary and Annexation Survey. The Census Bureau recognizes and tabulates data for reservations and off-reservation trust lands because American Indian tribes have primary governmental authority over these lands. The Census Bureau does not identify fee land (or land in fee simple status) or restricted fee lands as specific geographic areas.
Off-reservation trust lands are assigned a four-digit census code, a five-digit Federal Information Processing Series (FIPS) code, and an eight-digit National Standard (ANSI) code that is the same as that for the reservation with which they are associated. Trust lands associated with tribes that do not have a reservation are assigned unique codes. The census code is assigned by tribal name within the range 0001 through 4799, interspersed alphabetically among the reservation names. Because FIPS codes are assigned in alphabetical sequence within each state, the FIPS code will be different in each state for off-reservation trust lands that include territory in more than one state. In decennial census data tabulations, the American Indian Trust Land/Hawaiian Home Land Indicator uniquely identifies off-reservation trust lands, as well as reservation or statistical area only portions, Hawaiian home lands, and records that consist of the combination of reservation and off-reservation trust land territory.
Copyright Text: The TIGER/Line shapefile products are not copyrighted; however TIGER/Line® is a registered trademark of the Census Bureau. TIGER/Line® is a registered trademark of the Census Bureau. TIGER/Line cannot be used as or within the proprietary product names of any commercial product including or otherwise relevant to Census Bureau data and may only be used to refer to the nature of such a product.
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Name: State Forest Action Plan (Forest Stewardship) Priority Areas
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Description: With the Food, Conservation, and Energy Act of 2008 (the 2008 Farm Bill), Congress tasked states and territories to craft assessments of the forests within their boundaries and develop strategies to address threats and forest management opportunities. Now known as Forest Action Plans, these assessments and strategies provide an analysis of forest conditions and trends in the state and delineate priority forest landscape areas. They offer long-term plans for investing state, federal, and other resources where they can be most effective in achieving national conservation goals by addressing the State and Private Forestry (SPF) national priorities and objectives: 1) Conserve working forest lands, 2) Protect forests from harm, and 3) Enhance public benefits from trees and forests. Administered by the US Forest Service and implemented by State forestry agencies, the SPF Forest Stewardship Program encourages private forest landowners to manage their lands using professionally prepared Forest Stewardship plans. Participation in the Forest Stewardship Program requires that states and territories submit a raster dataset of priority areas specific to the Program - aligned with priority landscapes identified in Forest Action Plans - called Forest Stewardship Priority Areas, where they will focus their Program delivery efforts. Program performance measures include acres covered by active Forest Stewardship plans that are within Forest Stewardship Priority Areas.
Description: Contains a Geographic Information System (GIS) shapefile of all population census tracts designated as Qualified Opportunity Zones (QOZs) as well as all population census tracts originally eligible for designation as a QOZ for purposes of §§ 1400Z–1 and 1400Z–2 of the Internal Revenue Code (the Code). https://www.cdfifund.gov/Pages/Opportunity-Zones.aspx
Section 1400Z–1(b)(1)(A) of the Code allowed the Chief Executive Officer (CEO) of each State to nominate a limited number of population census tracts to be designated as Zones for purposes of §§ 1400Z–1 and 1400Z–2. Revenue Procedure 2018–16, 2018–9 I.R.B. 383, provided guidance to State CEOs on the eligibility criteria and procedure for making these nominations. Section 1400Z–1(b)(1)(B) of the Code provides that after the Secretary receives notice of the nominations, the Secretary may certify the nominations and designate the nominated tracts as Zones.
Section 1400Z–2 of the Code allows the temporary deferral of inclusion in gross income for certain realized gains to the extent that corresponding amounts are timely invested in a qualified opportunity fund. Investments in a qualified opportunity fund may also be eligible for additional tax benefits.
Copyright Text: Census, Community Development Financial Institutions Fund
Description: We are choosing to represent Agency capacity by: 1. Demonstrated ability to work there previously: - Collaborative Forest Landscape Restoration Projects
- Joint Chief’s Restoration Initiatives
Description: This data set is a complete digital hydrologic unit boundary layer of the Subwatershed (12-digit) 6th level for the entire United States. This data set consists of geo-referenced digital data and associated attributes created in accordance with the "Federal Guidelines, Requirements, and Procedures for the National Watershed Boundary Dataset; Chapter 3 of Section A, Federal Standards, Book 11, Collection and Delineation of Spatial Data; Techniques and Methods 11-A3" (04/01/2009). http://www.nrcs.usda.gov/wps/portal/nrcs/detail/national/water/watersheds/?cid=nrcs143_021630 . Polygons are attributed with hydrologic unit codes for 4th level sub-basins, 5th level watersheds, 6th level subwatersheds, name, size, downstream hydrologic unit, type of watershed, non-contributing areas and flow modification. The data is currently updated through the USGS National Hydrography Dataset (NHD) Program and replicated to NRCS twice per year.
Copyright Text: Funding and support for the Watershed Boundary Dataset (WBD) were provided by the Natural Resources Conservation Service, the Environmental Protection Agency, and the United States Geological Survey. Representatives from the U.S. Geological Survey and Environmental Protection Agency contributed a substantial amount of time and salary towards quality review and updating of the dataset in order to meet the Federal Standards for Delineation of Hydrologic Unit Boundaries.
Description: CFLRP_PL represents Collaborative Forest Landscape Restoration (CFLR) Program project activities in the format of a polygon vector. Also included are other High Priority Restoration projects that are funded outside of CFLR. It is important to note that this layer does not contain all of the approved project activities. Instead, these are the accomplishments that project groups uploaded to the Forest Service corporate data holdings in FACTS. As spatial data is a new requirement for the program, improvements to the quality and comprehensiveness of this data is expected in coming years. The Forest Service's Natural Resource Manager (NRM) Forest Activity Tracking System (FACTS) is the agency standard for managing information about activities related to fire/fuels, silviculture, and invasive species. FACTS is an activity tracking application for all levels of the Forest Service. The application allows tracking and monitoring of National Environmental Policy Act (NEPA) decisions as well as the ability to create and manage Knutson-Vandenberg (KV) trust fund plans at the timber sale level. This application complements its companion NRM applications, which cover the spectrum of living and non-living natural resource information.
Copyright Text: United States Forest Service Natural Resource Manager (NRM) Forest Activity Tracking System (FACTS) http://www.fs.fed.us/restoration/CFLRP/overview.shtml
Description: The United States Forest Service (USFS) is working to increase and unlock funding for forest stewardship, restoration, and protection by collaborating with the conversation finance sector.
A better understanding where of opportunities exist to generate revenues from the multiple conservation values of sustainable forest management will help USFS and its partners design and target technical assistance to managers of working forests.
Mapping opportunities for shared investments
USFS partnered with the Environmental Protection Agency's EnviroAtlas team and the nonprofit Forest Trends' Ecosystem Marketplace to develop a screening tool to identify key opportunities for catalyzing shared investments in sustainably managed working forests.
Description: The United States Forest Service (USFS) is working to increase and unlock funding for forest stewardship, restoration, and protection by collaborating with the conversation finance sector.
A better understanding where of opportunities exist to generate revenues from the multiple conservation values of sustainable forest management will help USFS and its partners design and target technical assistance to managers of working forests.
Mapping opportunities for shared investments
USFS partnered with the Environmental Protection Agency's EnviroAtlas team and the nonprofit Forest Trends' Ecosystem Marketplace to develop a screening tool to identify key opportunities for catalyzing shared investments in sustainably managed working forests.
Description: The United States Forest Service (USFS) is working to increase and unlock funding for forest stewardship, restoration, and protection by collaborating with the conversation finance sector.
A better understanding where of opportunities exist to generate revenues from the multiple conservation values of sustainable forest management will help USFS and its partners design and target technical assistance to managers of working forests.
Mapping opportunities for shared investments
USFS partnered with the Environmental Protection Agency's EnviroAtlas team and the nonprofit Forest Trends' Ecosystem Marketplace to develop a screening tool to identify key opportunities for catalyzing shared investments in sustainably managed working forests.