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Southwestern Region GIS Data
Selected GIS Datasets for the Southwestern Region
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Activities (Southwestern Region)
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Activities (FACT_ACT160_VW Attributes)
Posted 3/1/2023 |
This area feature class represents the locations of planned, accomplished and completed activity data that are recorded in the USFS Activities application FACTS. Only records with an activity are included. This data does not go into specifics of treatments (such as chemical treatments). It contains basic information like the activity subunit ID, administrative forest, ownership, state, planned date, accomplished date, completed date, method, equipment, funding, and many other items. |
Aerial Photography Mission Data (Southwestern Region)
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Photo Mission Area Polygons & Photo Centers
Posted 3/1/2023 |
Historical Aerial Photography Archive Missions (HAPAP) is a geodatabase that interfaces with a Map Viewer Search engine of all aerial photography projects completed in the Southwestern Region of the Forest Service. This database contains metadata on each mission indicating the original mission specifications and information on how to locate the associated rolls of film. |
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Post Fire Photography Projects List Posted 7/23/2020 |
This spreadsheet lists all of the post fire aerial photography projects flown by the Southwestern Region. With projects dating back to 1972, this imagery serves as an important record of fire extent and damage. Geospatial features describing the photo centers and footprints for these projects can be accessed in the Historical Aerial Photography feature service above, and the imagery can be requested from the Aerial Photography Field Office
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High resolution orthomosaics from Historical Aerial Photography and 30cm 4band orthophotos of Fire Sites in Arizona and New Mexico acquired by the USFS Southwestern Regional Office for various planning, design, research and mapping purposes. |
Constructed Features (Southwestern Region)
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Constructed Features
Posted 3/1/2023 |
This feature dataset includes constructed and non constructed features that support management needs and mapping. This dataset includes a variety of constructed features, (e.g, fences, bridges, culverts, buildings, communication systems, gates, helipads, parking lots, shooting range, etc.) and non-constructed features which may include natural barriers and other features that need to be maintained spatially. |
Ecological Response Units (Southwestern Region)
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Ecological Response Units (Version 5.4)
Posted 11/3/2022 |
Ecological Response Units - The purpose of this feature class is to be an ecosystem mapping tool across all of Arizona and New Mexico. Ecological Response Units (ERUs) facilitate landscape analyses and planning. The framework represents all major ecosystem types of the southwest region, and represents a stratification of biophysical themes. ERUs are used to define historic/reference conditions within a mapping unit by integrating site potential (soil physical and chemical properties, geology, geomorphology, aspect, slope, climate variables, and geographic location), fire regime (historic and contemporary), neighboring vegetation communities, and seral state sequence. The shapefile data is tiled into four tiles: Arizona North, Arizona South, New Mexico North, New Mexico South. View a sample image of the tile locations |
| ERU_ChangeRequestDocs.zip 394 KB | ERU Change Request - For FS partners that have updates to the data. In order to handle requests for updating ERU in an efficient manner, a workflow has been developed to funnel the different types of change requests. This download contains instructions and forms for ERU change requests. |
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ERU Fire Groups
Posted 12/2/2022 |
Fire groups are a vegetation classification based upon vegetation types and their fire regime. This dataset is derived from Version 5.4 of the Ecological Response Unit (ERU) layer. Fire groups were assigned to the ERU designations by the Regional Ecologist. Note that non-vegetation ERUs, such as sparsely vegetated, urban, human, and water did not get assigned a fire group and were assigned a value of “Not Analyzed”. A minimum mapping unit of 1,000 acres was desired so a grouping priority of fire groups for small polygons (<1,000 acres) was established by the Regional Ecologist. The polygons were dissolved by the initial fire group assignments to the ERUs. Then neighboring polygons for each polygon were analyzed. After the analysis, reassignment of a new fire group where it met a grouping priority, and redissolving, any remaining polygons less than 1,000 acres that were unable to be joined with a neighboring polygon were classified as “Not Analyzed”. Attributes were added for historic fire regime and flame length class. |
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Climate Change Vulnerability Assessment
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The CCVA is an all-lands vulnerability assessment for major upland ecosystems of AZ and NM (Triepke 2016). Based on the anticipated effects of climate and uncharacteristic drought to site potential, the vulnerability of individual plant communities was identified by the level of future climate departure from the climate envelope for given ecosystem types. The CCVA was an ecosystems approach to predicting vulnerability based on climate projections at the year 2090. Much of the underpinning knowledge and geography of vegetation-climate relationships stems from the Terrestrial Ecological Unit Inventory of the USFS Southwestern Region (USDA Forest Service 1986, Winthers et al. 2005). |
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Aquatic-Riparian Climate Change Vulnerability Assessment (ARCCVA)
Posted 12/2/2022 |
Land managers are considering ongoing and potential effects of climate and drought on natural resources to coordinate responses for the protection of ecosystems and their water supply, aquatic and riparian biodiversity, and other ecosystem services (Smith and Friggens 2017). Though climate vulnerability of these systems remains understudied (Mott Lacroix et al. 2017), the Rocky Mountain Research Station (RMRS) of the USDA Forest Service, The Nature Conservancy (TNC), and other organizations have developed assessments, tools, and methods for evaluating specific localities or the vulnerability for key ecosystem components. The Aquatic-Riparian Climate Change Vulnerability Assessment (ARCCVA) complements prior work with a regionwide vulnerability assessment of sufficient thematic detail to support natural resource policy and management prioritization, watershed assessment, monitoring systems, and to support effects analyses of landscape-scale projects. This work builds on an approach established by Smith and Friggens (2017) and adds additional indicators and spatial extent. by The ARCCVA satisfies some requirements of the Forest Service Climate Scorecard and partially fulfills the vulnerability assessment requirement of the agency’s Climate Adaptation Framework used to support the subsequent step of building an adaptation strategy. The ARCCVA includes subwatershed-scale reporting (HUC12) for all lands of Arizona and New Mexico along with watersheds that include Forest Service lands in the Oklahoma and Texas panhandles. The assessment was supported by existing data sources on over two dozen intrinsic and climate-related indicators associated with watershed condition, riparian and aquatic habitat, and the presence of warm- and cold-water fish. |
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Socioeconomic Vulnerability Assessment (SEVA)
Posted 2/2/2023 |
A changing climate and its effects on ecosystem services will have broad impacts, however, not all people and communities will be equally affected. This assessment of vulnerability is concerned with identifying communities and geographic areas where climate-change-driven ecological changes have the potential to adversely affect human well-being due to changes in the provision of ecosystem services. Communities that are at greater risk of ecological changes and that lack adaptive capacity are considered more vulnerable. We analyzed vulnerability components of exposure, sensitivity, and adaptive capacity based on available socioeconomic and ecological data. Reporting here includes quantitative and spatially based summaries on community risk, resource sector dependence, and capacity to adapt, as well as an integration of the three vulnerability components. This report extends existing vulnerability reporting focused on national forests by assessing all lands, regardless of ownership, in Arizona and New Mexico. "Socioeconomic Vulnerability to Ecological Changes in the Southwest" Publication PDF |
Forest Health - Insect Disease (Southwestern Region)
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| Forest Health – Insect Disease, See web page | Forest Health - Insect and Disease GIS data |
Forest Orders (Southwestern Region)
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Forest Orders
Posted as a map service Daily |
Forest order map. Forest orders are areas of the forest where entry or use is restricted for safety and or resource protection. Title 36, Code of Federal Regulations, Chapter II, Subpart B, may close an area to entry or may restrict the use of an area by applying any or all of the prohibitions authorized by the code of regulations. |
Forest Planning (Individual Forest)
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Apache Sitgreaves Management Area 2015
Posted 8/21/2019 |
The purpose of this feature class is to depict and label a spatially contiguous land area identified within a planning area (the administrative boundary). The feature class will be used to provide planning information for any necessary analysis Apache Sitgreaves N.F. |
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Kaibab Management Area 2014
Posted 2/3/2022 |
The purpose of this feature class is to depict and label a spatially contiguous land area identified within a planning area (the administrative boundary). The feature class will be used to provide planning information for any necessary analysis Kaibab N.F. |
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Snta Fe Management Area 1987 Plan
Posted 2/4/2022 |
The purpose of this feature class is to depict and label a spatially contiguous land area identified within a planning area (the administrative boundary). The feature class will be used to provide planning information for any necessary analysis Santa Fe N.F. |
General Terrestrial Ecosystem Survey (Southwestern Region)
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General Terrestrial Ecosystem Survey Posted 12/2001 |
General Terrestrial Ecosystem Survey - (United States Forest Service Southwest Region) View image of areaThe data set is composed of polygon features denoting soil condition, erosion hazard, revegetation potential and vegetation cover. The scale is 1:250000. This data set was created for the USFS General Terrestrial Ecosystem Survey. It's purpose is to delineate the locations and areas of varying GTES characteristics. |
Invasive (Southwestern Region)
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Invasive
Posted 3/1/2023 |
The Invasive Plants, Invertebrate, Pathogen, and Vertebrate (Invasive) feature class contains all the Invasive Infestation polygons collected by the National Invasive Plant Inventory Protocol. Includes most recent as well as historic observations. Includes Site ID, Plant code, status etc. for the infesting species, date, area and other basic data. This dataset at this time is mostly Plants. |
Land (Southwestern Region)
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Administrative Forest
Posted 3/1/2023 |
Administrative Forest - An area encompassing all the National Forest System lands administered by a unit. The area encompasses private lands, other governmental agency lands, and may contain National Forest System lands within the proclaimed boundaries of another administrative unit. All National Forest System lands fall within one and only one Administrative Forest Area. |
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Ranger District
Posted 3/1/2023 |
Ranger District - A depiction of the boundary that encompasses a Ranger District. |
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Administrative Region
Posted 3/1/2023 |
Administrative Region - An area encompassing all the National Forest System lands administered by a Region. The area encompasses private lands, other governmental agency lands. All National Forest System lands fall within one and only one Administrative Region Area. |
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Military Reserve
Posted 3/1/2023 |
Military Reserve - An area depicting National Forest System land parcels that have management or use limits of Military Reserve or Hazardous Area. |
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National Grassland
Posted 3/1/2023 |
National Grassland - A National Grassland unit designated by the Secretary of Agriculture and permanently held by the Department of Agriculture under Title III of the Bankhead-Jones Farm Tenant Act. |
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Other National Designated Area
Posted 3/1/2023 |
Other National Designated Area - An area depicting National Forest System land parcels that have management or use limits placed on them by legal authority. Examples are: National Recreation Area, National Monument, and National Game Refuge. |
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Proclaimed Forest
Posted 3/1/2023 |
Proclaimed Forest - A depiction of the boundaries encompassing the National Forest System (NFS) lands within the original proclaimed National Forests, along with subsequent Executive Orders, Proclamations, Public Laws, Public Land Orders, Secretary of Agriculture Orders, and Secretary of Interior Orders creating modifications thereto, along with lands added to the NFS which have taken on the status of 'reserved from the public domain' under the General Exchange Act. The following area types are included: National Forest, Experimental Area, Experimental Forest, Experimental Range, Land Utilization Project, National Grassland, Purchase Unit, and Special Management Area. |
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Right Of Way
Posted 3/1/2023 |
Right of Way - A depictation of the Right of Ways on National Forest System Lands. |
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PLSS - Public Land Survey System
Posted 3/1/2023 |
PLSS Section - An area defined by the Public Lands Survey System Grid. Normally, 36 sections make up a township. Township - An area defined by the Public Lands Survey System grid that is referenced by its tier and range numbers, and is normally a rectangle approximately 6 miles on a side with boundaries conforming to meridians and parallels. |
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Special Interest Management Area
Posted 3/1/2023 |
Special Interest Management Area - A depiction of National Forest System land parcels that have management or use limits placed on them by the Forest Service. Examples include: Anadromous Spawning Area, Indian Reserve Classification Area, Archeological Area, Research Natural Area, Administrative Site, Scenic Area, and others. |
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Sub Surface Right
Posted 3/1/2023 |
Sub Surface Right - A depictation of the Sub Surface Right (Minerals, Gas Oil) on National Forest System Lands. |
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Surface Ownership
Posted 3/1/2023 |
Surface Ownership - An area depicting ownership parcels of the surface estate. Each surface ownership parcel is tied to a particular legal transaction. The same individual or organization may currently own many parcels that may or may not have been acquired through the same legal transaction. Therefore, they are captured as separate entities rather than merged together. This is in contrast to Basic Ownership, in which the surface ownership parcels having the same owner are merged together. Basic Ownership provides the general user with the Forest Service versus non-Forest Service view of land ownership within National Forest boundaries. Surface Ownership provides the land status user with a current snapshot of ownership within National Forest boundaries. |
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Surface Ownership Dissolve
Posted 3/1/2023 |
Surface Ownership Dissolve -This is a Basic ownership layer mergered from Surface Ownership. Ownership is depicted (dissolved) by FS_Own_Code (USFS or OTHER.) |
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Surface Right
Posted 3/1/2023 |
Surface Right - A depictation of the Surface Right on National Forest System Lands. |
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Wilderness
Posted 3/1/2023 |
Wilderness - The Land Status view of National Forest System land parcels that have legal descriptions such as National Wilderness Area, Primitive Area, or Wilderness Study Area. |
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Wild Scenic River
Posted 3/1/2023 |
Wild Scenic River - The Land Status view of a Wild and Scenic River. |
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Inventoried Roadless Area
Posted 2/3/2022 |
Inventoried Roadless Areas that were used in the Final Environmental Impact Statement for the 2001 Roadless Area Conservation Rule. The EIS analysis team used this spatial data to assess the impacts of roadless area alternatives on Forest Service policies,use of the National Forests and the surrounding environment. It was used for analysis in combination with national characterization layers, such as ambient human population, forest mortality risk to insects and diseases, current land cover types, andothers. |
Recreation (Southwestern Region)
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Recreation Site
Posted 3/1/2023 |
Recreation Site Point and Recreation Site Polygon Depicts developed recreation sites, trailhead, fishing, picnic area, campground |
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Recreation Opportunity Settings
Posted 3/1/2023 |
Depicts the spatial location of areas showing the type of Recreation Opportunity Settings that exist (Existing Condition) either without over-snow travel or uses (summer season) or year-round when no seasonal variation exists. |
RMU - Range Management Units (Southwestern Region)
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RMU_Unit, RMU_SubUnit, RMU_WHB
Posted 3/1/2023 |
RMU_Unit (Allotments) - Depicts the gross grazing management area (allotment) boundaries, range general resource area boundaries, and wild horse territories boundaries. RMU_SubUnit (Pastures) - Depicts grazing implementation monitoring area boundaries within each Pasture. RMU_WHB (Wild Horse and Burro Areas) - Depicts Wild Horse and Burro Areas |
Terrestrial Ecological Unit Inventory (Southwestern Region)
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TEU, Terrestrial Ecological Unit
Posted 7/16/2021 |
Terrestrial Ecological Unit Inventory. Potential Natural Vegetation and Soil Class. The Land Type Map Component Vegetation, Soil, Geology (LT_MapCompVegSoilGeology) feature class has classification information for Vegetation (potential and existing), soil, geology, geomorphology, ecological types and miscellaneous classifications. Classifications are displayed in order of dominance for each type (PNV, Soil, etc) along with the percentage based on aggregating component actual percents (null values are treated as 0). If there are multiple classifications per component, that component percent is divided by the number of classifications that are attached to that component, and then that percent is aggregated up to the map unit. Map Symbol Comp Pct Vegetation Class 22 1 45 VegClass1 22 2 30 Vegclass2 22 3 25 Vegclass1 Aggregated Vegetation class Vegclass1 - 70 pct Vegclass2 - 30 pct |
Transportation (Southwestern Region)
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Road
Posted 3/1/2023 |
Road network on the Southwestern Region Forest Service. This feature class has the event table from INFRA II_ROAD_CORE overlayed on it with all the core attributes. A route system depicts all roads within or in close proximity to an administrative unit. A road is a motor vehicle travel way over 50 inches wide, unless classified and managed as a trail. A road may be classified or unclassified. Classified roads are roads within the National Forest System lands planned and managed for motor vehicle access including State roads, county roads, private roads, permitted roads, and Forest Service roads. |
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Trail
Posted 3/1/2023 |
Trail routes on the Southwestern Region Forest Service. This feature class has the event table from INFRA II_TRAIL_CORE overlayed on it with all the core attributes. A route system depicts all trails within or in close proximity to an administrative unit. A trail is a linear feature constructed for the purpose of allowing the free movement of people, stock, or Off Highway Vehicles (OHV). |
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MVUM (Motor Vehicle Use Map) Data
Posted 3/1/2023 |
Motorized Vehicle Use Maps (MVUM) Data, These MVUM maps are valid in as of the publication date which have been designated as open to motorized vehicles under the Travel Management Rule (36 CFR 212, Subpart B, Designation of Roads, Trails, and Areas for Motor Vehicle Use). Routes not designated for motor vehicle use (such as non-motorized trails, single-purpose roads and trails, unauthorized roads and trails, and temporary roads and trails) are not included. Specific types of motorized vehicles allowed on the designated roads/trails and their seasons of use. These data represent the following symbol classes of roads and trails: Open to All Vehicles, Open to Highway Legal Vehicles and Roads with Seasonal Designations. |
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MVUM (Motor Vehicle Use Map) Downloadable Maps Download Motor Vehicle Use Maps |
Printable MVUM as PDF files |
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Santa Fe N.F. Main Roads
Posted 2/4/2022 |
Main roads in and around the SFNF, including highways, county roads and main Forest roads. Sources included the Forest's system roads/Infra, county road data submitted to the NMDOT, and statewide roads from NMDOT. |
Vegetation (Southwestern Region)
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INREV (OSU Institute Natural Resources Existing Vegetation)
Posted 12/16/2022 |
Existing vegetation mapping provides basic information on the current condition of vegetation structure and composition. Beginning in 2004 the Southwestern Region developed Mid-Scale Existing Vegetation Mapping on all National Forests and Grasslands (Mellin et al. 2008). The Southwestern Region collaborated with OSU’s Institute of Natural Resources to develop new mid-scale mapping with the INREV project. Mid-scale mapping is compliant with agency technical guidance for existing vegetation (Brohman and Bryant 2005, Nelson et al. 2015). For business needs of natural resource organizations, existing vegetation mapping represents an important component in an overall inventory, monitoring, and analysis framework. Existing vegetation mapping is often used in combination with ecosystem type mapping such asEcological Response Units (Wahlberg et al. 2020) for purposes of landscape assessment and habitat modeling. Existing vegetation mapping can also be combined with ecological mapping such as TEUI (Winthers et al. 2006) for assessment involving Ecological Site Descriptions (Creque et al. 1999, SRM 1995). The INREV dataset is best applied and most appropriately summarized at the HUC12 subwatershed level (10,000 – 40,000 acres) or larger areal extents. |
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Mid-Scale Existing Vegetation Canopy Cover Map Units
Posted 9/9/2019 |
Canopy cover map units of trees for tree life form polygons or shrubs for shrub life form polygons. The Southwestern Region existing vegetation mapping program (R3-EVP) is intended to meet the needs of forest plan revisions, national fire planning, and other landscape-level analyses by providing a consistent, region-wide dataset that depicts existing vegetation at the mid-scale level. |
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Mid-Scale Existing Vegetation Dominance Type Map Units
Posted 7/9/2020 |
Polygons of dominance type in the map units. Dominance types are defined by the species or genera of greatest abundance, usually of the uppermost canopy of the plant community. The Southwestern Region existing vegetation mapping program (R3-EVP) is intended to meet the needs of forest plan revisions, national fire planning, and other landscape-level analyses by providing a consistent, region-wide dataset that depicts existing vegetation at the mid-scale level. |
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Mid-Scale Existing Vegetation Life Form
Posted 7/6/2020 |
Polygons representing the dominant life form. The Southwestern Region existing vegetation mapping program (R3-EVP) is intended to meet the needs of forest plan revisions, national fire planning, and other landscape-level analyses by providing a consistent, region-wide dataset that depicts existing vegetation at the mid-scale level. |
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Mid-Scale Existing Vegetation Size Map Units
Posted 9/9/2019 |
Diameter class map unit of dominant trees for tree life form polygons or shrub height class for shrub life form polygons. The Southwestern Region existing vegetation mapping program (R3-EVP) is intended to meet the needs of forest plan revisions, national fire planning, and other landscape-level analyses by providing a consistent, region-wide dataset that depicts existing vegetation at the mid-scale level. |
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Riparian Existing Vegetation​ (REV)
Posted 4/8/2022 |
This feature class contains attribute information from four different vegetation maps (Lifeform Type, Leaf Retention Type, Canopy Cover, and Size Class) and statistics on NDVI and lidar. For this project canopy height and cover data were derived from lidar data found within the Prescott National Forest and used in mapping tree size. The lidar and other predictor variables from imagery were used to segment the study area into objects with similar characteristics for use in vegetation mapping. Vegetation mapping attributes were then added to each segment as classified by Random Decision Forest classifier. A 20 meter buffer from the RMAP boundary was created as a study area. Two final products are presented, this product that has been clipped to the RMAP boundary with map features designed to meet a minimum size of .25 hectares and a second that includes the 20 meter buffer and has no minimum map unit. Project Reports: |
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Riparian Potential Vegetation​
Posted 3/11/2019 |
Riparian Potential Vegetation - Potential Riparian plant communities across Forests and Grasslands of the US Forest Service Southwestern Region. Riparian Potential Vegetation is derived from the Ecological Response Units (ERUs) layer. Ecological Response Units (ERUs) facilitate landscape analyses and planning. The framework represents all major ecosystem types of the southwest region, and represents a stratification of biophysical themes. ERUs are used to define historic/reference conditions within a mapping unit by integrating site potential (soil physical and chemical properties, geology, geomorphology, aspect, slope, climate variables, and geographic location), fire regime (historic and contemporary), neighboring vegetation communities, and serial state sequence. Regional Riparian Mapping Project Report (PDF) |
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Apache Sitgreaves N.F. Posted 9/14/2018 |
Site (stand) boundaries which depict the dominant cover type for a homogeneous unit on the ground. |
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Carson N.F. Posted 8/2012 |
Site (stand) boundaries which depict the dominant cover type for a homogeneous unit on the ground. |
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Santa Fe N.F.
Posted 2/9/2022 |
Site (stand) boundaries which depict the dominant cover type for a homogeneous unit on the ground. |
Wild Land Fire Perimeters (Southwestern Region)
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Fire History Occurrences (Points) and Perimeters (Polygons)
Posted 3/1/2023 Wildfire Perimeters > 100 acres, 2000 – Present Year |
The FireOccurrence point layer represents ignition points from which individual wildland fires started. Data are maintained at the Forest/District level, or their equivalent, to track the occurrence and the origin of individual wildland fires. The FirePerimeter polygon layer represents final mapped wildland fire perimeters. Incidents of 10 acres or greater in size are expected where either the landowner or the protecting agency at the point of origin (where the incident started) is the U.S. Forest Service (USFS). Incidents smaller than 10 acres in size may also be included. Data are maintained at the Forest/District level, or their equivalent, to track the area affected by wildland fire. |
Wildland Urban Interface (WUI) Areas (Southwestern Region)
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Wildland Urban Interface Posted 12/2001 |
Wildland Urban Interface (WUI) Areas Adjacent to Forest Service Lands in the South Western Region of the Forest Service View image of area |
