The next generation database, for the US, is a public-private collaboration called PAD-US (www.protectedlands.net) that will pull all the different bits of information together in a more comprehensive manner. Version 1 of PAD-US has just been released. If you can't wait for the links on the main website to be updated you can see it at http://gapanalysis.nbii.gov/portal/community/GAP_Analysis_Program/Communities/GAP_Projects/Protected_Areas_Database_of_the_United_States.
-----Original Message----- From: Katie Theoharides [mailto:[email protected]] Sent: Wed 4/22/2009 9:00 AM Subject: Fwd: [ECOLOG-L] GIS of protected regions in North America? The Conservation Biology Institute has a Protected Areas Database that shows the GAP status for protected areas in federal, state, local, and private land protection categories in the U.S. and Canada. Its available at http://www.consbio.org/what-we-do/protected-areas-database-pad-version-4. Alternately, many state agencies and natural heritage programs such as Virginia have updated protected area GIS files with better data so its worth checking for state based records as well. The nice thing about the CBI database is that it includes GAP status and ownership entity information for every state in the nation. There are plans in the works to update this layer and currently there is a new multi-organizational effort to map all easements across the nation. Katie Theoharides Conservation Planner Defenders of Wildlife 2009/4/21 Jonathan Greenberg <[email protected]> Ecologgers: > > Does anyone know if there is a GIS layer that contains coverages for all > protected regions in North America (e.g. national, state and local parks, > private and non-profit wildlife preserves, etc.)? Thanks! > > --j > > -- > > Jonathan A. Greenberg, PhD > Postdoctoral Scholar > Center for Spatial Technologies and Remote Sensing (CSTARS) > University of California, Davis > One Shields Avenue > The Barn, Room 250N > Davis, CA 95616 > Cell: 415-794-5043 > AIM: jgrn307, MSN: [email protected], Gchat: jgrn307 >
