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Title:

Forest ownership in the conterminous United States: ForestOwn_v1 geospatial dataset

Author(s):

Nelson, Mark D.; Liknes, Greg C.; Butler, Brett J.

Publication Year:

2010

How to Cite:

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Nelson, Mark D.; Liknes, Greg C.; Butler, Brett J. 2010. Forest ownership in the conterminous United States: ForestOwn_v1 geospatial dataset. Newtown Square, PA: U.S. Department of Agriculture, Forest Service, Northern Research Station. https://doi.org/10.2737/RDS-2010-0002

Appropriate uses include: statewide biodiversity planning, regional planning or biological assessments, coarse-scale (e.g. national) evaluation of ecosystem representation within forest/non-forest and public/private areas.

Inappropriate uses include: resource planning at a scale smaller than statewide; establishing exact legal boundaries of ownership parcels; establishing definite presence or absence of any land cover class, ownership boundary, or corporate ownership category; determining exact areas for parcels or ownership categories.

Abstract:

ForestOwn_v1 is a 250-meter spatial resolution raster geospatial dataset of forest ownership of the conterminous United States (CONUS). The dataset was prepared by the Forest Inventory and Analysis (FIA) program, Northern Research Station, Forest Service, United States Department of Agriculture (USDA), and differentiates forest from non-forest land and water, public and private ownership, and the percent of private forest land in corporate ownership. The forest/non-forest land/water classification is derived from the USDA Forest Service's CONUS Forest/Nonforest dataset. Public and private land ownership class is derived from the Protected Areas Database of the United States, Version 1.1 (CBI Edition). Corporate ownership of private forest land is derived from the Forest Service's 2007 Resources Planning Act (RPA) dataset, summarized over the Environmental Protection Agency's Original Environmental Monitoring & Assessment Program (EMAP) grid 648 square kilometer hexagon dataset.

Keywords:

forest land; non-forest; ownership; corporate; ForestOwn_v1; boundaries; Inventory, Monitoring, & Analysis; Resource inventory; Conterminous United States; CONUS

Related publications:

• Sass, Emma M.; Butler, Brett J.; Markowski-Lindsay, Marla A. 2020. Forest ownership in the conterminous United States circa 2017: distribution of eight ownership types - geospatial dataset. Fort Collins, CO: Forest Service Research Data Archive. https://doi.org/10.2737/RDS-2020-0044
• Nelson, Mark D.; Liknes, Greg C.; Butler, Brett J. 2010. Map of forest ownership in the conterminous United States. [Scale 1:7,5000,000.]. Research Map. NRS-2. Newtown Square, PA: U.S. Department of Agriculture, Forest Service, Northern Research Station. https://doi.org/10.2737/NRS-RMAP-2
• Hewes, Jaketon H.; Butler, Brett J.; Liknes, Greg C.; Nelson, Mark D.; Snyder, Stephanie A. 2014. Public and private forest ownership in the conterminous United States: distribution of six ownership types - geospatial dataset. Fort Collins, CO: Forest Service Research Data Archive. https://doi.org/10.2737/RDS-2014-0002
• Hewes, Jaketon H.; Butler, Brett J.; Liknes, Greg C. 2017. Forest ownership in the conterminous United States circa 2014: distribution of seven ownership types - geospatial dataset. Fort Collins, CO: Forest Service Research Data Archive. https://doi.org/10.2737/RDS-2017-0007

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