Protected Areas

ground condition

Marine Cadastre Data Registry

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This layer was used to delineate the geospatial boundaries of lands and waters administered by the USDA Forest Service (USFS) classified as National Forests, National Monuments, and National Wilderness Areas.

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This layer was used to delineate the geospatial boundary set for lands and waters administered by the National Park Service (NPS) classified as National Parks, National Monuments, and National Seashores.

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This polygon feature class was used to delineate the spatial extent and boundaries of the BLM National Landscape Conservation System (NLCS) National Monuments.

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This polygon feature class was used to delineate the spatial extent and boundaries of the BLM National Landscape Conservation System (NLCS) Wilderness Areas.

Delineates U.S. federal sovereign waters including the 12 nautical mile territorial sea, 24 nautical mile contiguous zone, and 200 nautical mile Exclusive Economic Zone (EEZ) as well as states jurisdiction under the Submerged Lands Act. This feature class was used to extract features.

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This layer provided simplified external boundaries for lands and waters administered by the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service (USFWS), including those classified as National Wildlife Refuges or National Monuments.

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The MPA Inventory catalog provided geospatial boundary information and attribution for features managed in the the National Marine Protected Areas System under U.S. federal, state, territorial, local, and tribal jurisdiction.

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Extracted vector files were used to delineate NMS boundaries.

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This dataset provided state park boundaries and some degree of contextual information about protected areas.

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This layer provided boundaries for most lands and waters classified as National Estuarine Research Reserves.

Extract National Estuarine Research Reserve, Marine National Monument, National Monument, National Park, National Marine Sanctuaries, National Seashore, National Wildlife Refuge, National Wilderness Area, polygons intersecting FederalAndStateWaters and located up to 20 miles inland of the coastline. Dissolve extracted polygons to multi-part features by site name and combine into a single feature class.

For each site, set the "URL" field to a website created by the managing agency, if available, or use the provided "no information" link ("http://marinecadastre.gov/noinfo/").

Extract PADUS1_4 features within FederalAndStateWaters state waters component or located up to 20 miles inland of the coastline that are classified as State Parks and append.

Repair all source feature geometry.

Extract MPAI_2017 features within FederalAndStateWaters state waters component or located up to 20 miles inland of the coastline. Remove any federal or fishing/boating restriction sites (sites designated as 'Bottomfish Restricted Fishing Area', 'Cape Cod Bay Year-Round Fish Pot Trawl Floating Ground Line Prohibition Area', 'Closure Area', 'Crab Sanctuary', 'Crab Spawning Sanctuary', 'Fishery Management Area', 'Fishery Research Area', 'Game Land', 'Harvest Prohibited Area', 'Harvest Prohibited or Restricted Area', 'Harvesting of Oysters Prohibited Area', 'Nursery Areas', 'Right Whale Critical Habitat and Adjacent Waters Restricted Gear Area', 'Shellfish Management Area', 'Shellfish Preserve', 'Special Area Management Plan', 'Special Closure', 'Trawl Nets Prohibited Areas','Manatee Protection Zones', 'Motorboats Prohibited Zone', or 'No Entry Zone') and append remaining state sites.