Protected Areas Resources

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Factsheets

• PAD-US — National Inventory of Protected Areas. View USGS Fact Sheet 2013-3086.
• FGDC Federal Lands Workgroup (FLWG) – Interagency coordination for inventorying federal lands. View FGDC Fact Sheet from the FLWG website.

Reports

• Completing America's Inventory of Public Parks and Protected Areas (2016)
• PAD-US Strategy Report, “A Map for the Future” (2009)

Downloadable PAD-US 2.0 National Maps 

• All Managers
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• Federal Managers
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• Protection Status:
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• Public Access:
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Downloadable PAD-US 2.0 National Maps with DOI Unified Regional Boundaries

Access to National Maps with DOI Boundaries

Downloadable PAD-US 2.0 State Maps 

Access to State Maps 

Other GAP Online Data Viewers

• Gap Analysis Project National Land Cover Viewer
• Gap Analysis Project Species Viewer

Tools and Crosswalks

• Blank PAD-US 2.0 Schema
• Default Categorical Assignment Process
• Local Agency to Agency Name Crosswalk
• PAD-US Data Tables and Crosswalks

Links– Look for GAP in the following applications

• UNEP-World Conservation Monitoring Center (WCMC) World Database on Protected Areas (WDPA)
• Commission for Environmental Cooperation (CEC) North American Environmental Atlas, Terrestrial Protected Areas (2017)
• Commission for Environmental Cooperation (CEC) Terrestrial Ecosystems Map Viewer
• USGS National Map Viewer Featured Mashup
• State of the Birds
• Department of Interior Strategic Plan FY 2011-2016, helping to ‘provide a scientific foundation for decision making’. (PDF document)