Description: Spatial features stewarded within the FSVeg Spatial application are organized in a hierarchy. Vegetation polygons and sample points represent the base level spatial features. Sample points fall within their parent vegetation polygon. Vegetation polygons are organized into locations. Locations fall within a ranger district and ranger districts fall within a proclaimed forest. There may be one or more proclaimed forests within the administrative forest. Finally, a region oversees the administrative forests within their geographic area. Vegetation polygons represent a fundamental unit of management in the Forest Service. These polygons typically represent areas of land where vegetation is somewhat homogenous. The polygon delineations may be determined through satellite image processing, aerial photography, site visits or some combination of methods. Vegetation attribute data associated with each polygon evolves over time as new data is acquired. Data may change on a daily basis04/04/2016 Update: Clipped to GMUG and surounding area.
Description: This layer depicts areas which have been designated (per the requirements of Section 368 of the Energy Policy Act of 2005) as West-wide energy corridors in Bureau of Land Management and U.S. Forest Service Records of Decision in connection with the final Programmatic Environmental Impact Statement, Designation of Energy Corridors on Federal Land in the 11 Western States, November 2008. After designation of the corridors a lawsuit occurred, followed by a settlement agreement. The July 23, 2012 settlement agreement (see <a href="https://corridoreis.anl.gov/documents/docs/Settlement_Agreement_Package.pdf" target="_blank">https://corridoreis.anl.gov/documents/docs/Settlement_Agreement_Package.pdf</a>) identified some of the designated corridors as "corridors of concern", listing them by corridor identifier and state along with a short description of the concerns. This layer depicts all of the designated corridors with a flag indicating whether they were identified as a corridor of concern. For corridors of concern, the text from the settlement agreement describing the concern has been added.
Copyright Text: Produced by Argonne National Laboratory and federal agencies in support of the West-wide Energy Corridors project.
Description: To be used to display the Scenic and Historic Byways in and around the Grand Mesa, Uncompahgre and Gunnison National Forest. Source data for these byways was selected from S_R02_GMUG.Transportation\S_R02_GMUG.Road, and T:\FS\Reference\GIS\r02\Data\State\Colorado\CDOT\2017Mar15\HIGHWAYS.shp based on maps shown on the Colorado Scenic Byways website: <a href="https://www.codot.gov/travel/scenic-byways" target="_blank">https://www.codot.gov/travel/scenic-byways</a> . Routes for each byway were selected separately and saved into a feature class. Resulting feature classes were merged into this single feature class.