Use the link below to see how the Gulf oil spill is approaching protected areas in the Gulf. This is an interactive map that you can change and is updated daily. The protected areas are based on the Protected Areas Database of the US (PAD-US 1.1), which is an update of PAD-US 1.0 and was released yesterday by the USGS Gap Analysis Program.
http://www.arcgis.com/home/webmap/viewer.html?webmap=74f92df1a5d54701875 055f86a28ac32&extent=-10382834,3040577.51,-9409332.01,3778041.96,102100 To use the online PAD-US viewer and for more information on PAD-US 1.1 go to the following url: http://gapanalysis.nbii.gov/padus Jocelyn Jocelyn Aycrigg, PhD National Gap Analysis Program Department of Fish and Wildlife Resources University of Idaho Moscow, ID 83843 208-885-3901 [email protected] gapanalysis.nbii.gov
