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_ScienceBase Catalog
__Energy and the Environment in the Rocky Mountain Area
___Group Data
____GIS Data (Final)
_____Supplemental Data
______Administrative and Ownership
_______Protected Areas Database of the US (PADUS)
The Protected Areas Database of the United States (PAD-US) is a geodatabase that illustrates and describes public land ownership, management and conservation lands nationally, including voluntarily provided privately protected areas. The lands included in PAD-US are assigned conservation measures that qualify their intent to manage lands for the preservation of biological diversity and to other natural, recreational and cultural uses; managed for these purposes through legal or other effective means. The geodatabase includes: 1) Geographic boundaries of public land ownership and voluntarily provided private conservation lands (e.g., Nature Conservancy Preserves); 2) The combination land owner, land manager, management...