The United States Forest Service (USFS) fights wildfires and other natural disasters in more than 155 national forests and 20 national grasslands, totaling an estimated 193 million acres or 30% of all federally-managed lands.Avenza Systems Inc...
Download theUnited States Federal Lands mapto see which lands the US government owns and regulates. For example, it includes: National Park Service Indian Lands Bureau of Reclamation National Forest Service Bureau of Land Management Fish and Wildlife Each federal lands map displays a small-scale map...
This satellite map details the “true color” extent of land in the contiguous United States. It usesLandsat, a satellite program that’s been monitoring our planet for 50+ years. This composite image displays everything from forests, bare ground, deserts, and water in the conterminous United ...
aFor many decades, the policy of the United States Forest Service was to prevent all tires. The policy began to be questioned in the 1960s, when it was realized that fire is an essential part of the life cycle of some trees. This produced the policy of controlled burns to educe underbr...
We developed geospatial models of forest attributes using this sample-based inventory which make this information available for an even wider variety of applications. From these modeled datasets, we created a series of maps for 24 US states in an effort to connect more people to trees, the ...
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forests that have been in the WUI longer have decreased spatial integrity evidenced by more forest-developed edges and lower proportions of forest in their surrounding areas (Sonti et al.2023). While much WUI-related research in the United States has focused on the heightened wildfire risk within...
NLCD tree canopy cover (TCC) maps of the contiguous United States and coastal Alaska A tree canopy cover (TCC) map is one of three elements in the National Land Cover Database (NLCD) 2011 suite of nationwide geospatial data layers. In 2010, the USDA Forest Service (USFS) committed to cre...
Mexican President Claudia Sheinbaum says her government is not ruling out filing a civil lawsuit against Google if it maintains its stance of calling the stretch of sea between northeastern Mexico and the southeastern United States the “Gulf of America.”. No description available 15 hours ago ...