USDA Forest to Faucets - Index of Insect and Disease Threat to Forests Important to Surface Drinking Water

Start Date

2001

End Date

2006

USDA Forest Service

Type: Download

The results of this assessment provides information that can identify areas of interest for protecting surface drinking water quality. The spatial dataset can be incorporated into broad-scale planning, such as the State Forest Action Plans, and can be incorporated into existing decision support tools that currently lack spatial data on important areas for surface drinking water. This project also sets the groundwork for identifying watersheds where a payment for watershed services (PWS) scheme may be an option for financing forest conservation and management on private unprotected forest lands. In perhaps its most important but most basic role, this work can serve as an education tool helping to illustrate the link between forests and provision of key watershed-based ecosystem services.

ArcGIS Mapping Service

WMS Service

• Appalachian Landscape Conservation Cooperative
• LC MAP - Landscape Conservation Management and Analysis Portal

Data source

Input directly