- License
- Public domain
- Commercial
- Yes
- Format
- Several, Shapefile
- Coverage
- All 9 Forest Service administrative regions (Regions 1-6 and 8-10; there is no Region 7), covering every National Forest System unit in the United States and Puerto Rico. Region polygons include private and other-agency land inside the regional boundary. The Alaska Region crosses the 180th meridian: the stored extent ends at 179.23°W, and the westernmost Aleutian islands (in the Eastern Hemisphere, to 179.86°E) are in the data but outside the stored box.
- Updated
- n/aWeekly
Nine region polygons with region name, number and National Forest System acres. The map service has national-extent and regional-extent versions of the layer.
This dataset is intended for read-only use. The purpose of the data is to provide display, identification, and analysis tools for determining current boundary information for Forest Service managers, GIS specialists, and others.
Description from USDA Forest Service, Enterprise Data Warehouse (EDW) (opens in a new tab)
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