The Protected Areas Database of the United States (PAD-US) is the official national GIS inventory of protected areas, as provided by managing agencies and organizations, and is produced by the USGS. PAD-US is an inventory of land and water, including fee ownerships, overlapping designations, proclamation boundaries, conservation easements, and Marine Protected Areas, that are held by thousands of public agencies and nonprofits. PAD-US is made up of many agencies’ datasets and updated periodically.
With version 2.0, PAD-US is mostly complete for Federal areas and most State lands. It’s only about 60 percent complete for all local and regional parks and open space areas, and for conservation easements (which come from the National Conservation Easement Database), but individual states can vary from extremely complete to not very complete at all.
The Protected Areas Database of the United States (PAD-US) is the official national GIS inventory of protected areas, as provided by managing agencies and organizations, and is produced by the USGS. PAD-US is an inventory of land and water, including fee ownerships, overlapping designations, proclamation boundaries, conservation easements, and Marine Protected Areas, that are held by thousands of public agencies and nonprofits. PAD-US is made up of many agencies’ datasets and updated periodically.
With version 2.0, PAD-US is mostly complete for Federal areas and most State lands. It’s only about 60 percent complete for all local and regional parks and open space areas, and for conservation easements (which come from the National Conservation Easement Database), but individual states can vary from extremely complete to not very complete at all. 