Representing temporal information within the U.S. protected lands matrix.

PAD-US (CBI Edition) is a national database of protected fee lands in the United States.  The database portrays the nation’s protected areas with standardized spatial geometry and numerous valuable attributes on land ownership, management designations, and conservation status (using national GAP and international IUCN coding systems).  The maintenance of the protected areas data are core to tracking land management and conservation actions in the US. 

CBI has identified establishment dates for protected areas as a critical addition to our current database.  The addition of this information will allow our users to conduct temporal protection analysis and provide a metric for land conservation.   Establishment dates are most readily available for protected lands held by federal agencies.  CBI has added a new field to the database for establishment dates and populated it with dates for federal lands (including lands held by USDA Forest Service, National Parks Service, US Fish & Wildlife Service and Bureau of Land Management).

Click here to download PAD-US (CBI Edition) Version 2.1 (geodatabase) (Updated Setember 1, 2016)*

Click here to download PAD-US (CBI Edition) Version 2.1 (shapefile) (Updated September 1, 2016)*

Click here to see a recent webinar given by Kai Foster about PAD-US (CBI Edition) Version 2.1

*These data have been updated to reflect finalization of reserved status for all protected lands.

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