New Report – Three Year Plan for National Inventory of all parks and protected areas !!

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A new report sets out a three year plan to complete PAD-US (the Protected Areas Database of the U.S.), the official national spatial inventory of every public park and protected natural area in the United States. 

The report, Completing America’s Inventory of Public Parks and Protected Areas (November 2016), is available in summary and detailed versions at www.ProtectedLands.net/vision.  The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and the National Park Service commissioned the Great Basin Cooperative Ecosystem Studies Unit at Boise State University to develop a thorough report on the Protected Areas Database of the U.S. (PAD-US) for the U.S. Geological Survey.

This report was developed by the PAD-US team and the nonprofit GreenInfo Network, and lays out not only the details of this data inventory, but more importantly calls for a 3 year action plan to complete PAD-US.

PAD-US data is currently mostly complete for lands owned outright by federal and state agencies, and for local and regional parks in some states, and has data from the National Conservation Easement Database (NCED). More work is needed to complete this data and develop systems. View maps of the current data at http://maps.usgs.gov/padus and at www.protectedlands.net/map.  Learn more about PAD-US at http://gapanalysis.usgs.gov/padus.

Read the full story about the new report here and find out how you can help with PAD-US:

http://www.protectedlands.net/new-pad-us-report-charts-future-to-2020/