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

Dates

Creation
2016-03-28 17:18:37
Last Update
2016-03-28 17:21:15
Start Date
2001
End Date
2006
Start Date
2000-12-31 20:18:50
End Date
2005-12-31 20:18:50

Citation

Appalachian Landscape Conservation Cooperative(administrator), UNC Asheville-NEMAC(Principal Investigator), Enterprise Data Warehouse(Distributor), 2016-03-28(creation), 2016-03-28(lastUpdate), 2001(Start), 2006(End), USDA Forest to Faucets Index of Insect and Disease Threat to Forests Important to Surface Drinking Water, https://www.sciencebase.gov/catalog/item/56f9676de4b0a6037df06038?community=Appalachian+Landscape+Conservation+Cooperative

Summary

This dataset provides a watershed index of surface drinking water importance, a watershed index of forest importance to surface drinking water, and a watershed index to highlight the extent to which development, fire, and insects and disease threaten forests important for surface drinking water. This symbology for this layer is based on the index value for insect and disease threat to forests which are important to surface drinking water on a range from 1-100.

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USDAForesttoFauInd_applcc-shp-051.zip 109.26 MB application/zip

Purpose

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.

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Alternate Titles

  • applcc-shp-051

Identifiers

Type Scheme Key
USGS ScienceBase Identifier urn:uuid 56f9676de4b0a6037df06038
adiwg adiwg applcc-008-shp-051

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