Abbreviations
(Administratively Combined Forests and Grasslands) |
ARP - Arapaho and Roosevelt National Forests and Pawnee National Grassland.
GMUG - Grand Mesa, Uncompahgre, and Gunnison National Forests.
MBR - Medicine Bow and Routt National Forests and Thunder Basin National Grassland.
NNF - Nebraska and Samual R. McKelvie National Forests and Buffalo Gap, Fort Pierre, and Oglala National Grasslands.
PSICC - Pike and San Isabel National Forests and Cimarron and Comanche National Grasslands.
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| Administered Area |
Divisions of aggregated National Forests and National Grasslands managed by specific administrative offices. |
| Administrative Offices |
Regional Office (RO), Supervisor Office (SO), and Ranger District Office (DO) locations. |
| Allotments |
Designated areas of land available, under permit, for livestock grazing. |
| Basic Ownership |
Depiction of Forest Service surface estate parcel ownership as it existed at a specific point in time. |
| Campground |
A developed or undeveloped designated overnight camping site which may or may not have common public amenities. |
| Data Dictionary |
Description of the meaning of database field names, data type, precision, and content length. |
| Fire Dispatch Area |
Primary emergency response area. |
| Fire Dispatch Centers |
A resource staging location. |
| Forest System Road |
A motor vehicle travel way over 50 inches wide. May include state, county, municipal, and private roads within a National Forest. |
| Forest System Trail |
A designated thoroughfare under 50 inches in width that is maintained for the free passage of people, livestock, and off highway vehicles (where permitted). |
| Geospatial |
The combination of spatial software and analytical methods with terrestrial or geographic data sets. |
| GeoTIFF |
Georeferenced TIFF format raster imagery.
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| KML |
Keyhole Markup Language, an XML-based language schema for expressing geographic annotation and visualization of a set of features using various Virtual Globe geobrowsers. |
| KMZ |
Zipped KML files with a .kmz extension |
| Metadata |
Metadata describes other data. It provides information about a certain item's content.
In geographic information systems (GIS) it functions the same way as a card in a library's card catalog describes a book. Metadata describes the data resource to help determine whether its content is suitable for a user's purposes. It contains a description of the data's accuracy, scale, source, history, timeliness, and use restrictions to help determine if or how the data may be properly used. |
| PLSS |
Public Land Survey System. The government established land survey Meridians, Township & Range, and Section grids. |
| Proclaimed Boundary |
Congressionally designated boundaries of National Forests. Some tracts of private, state, and/or other federal agency lands may be located within a proclaimed boundary. |
| Ranger District |
Generally, the smallest defined management unit. A single Ranger District may manage lands on multiple National Forests. |
| Regional Office |
Main office for the designated region. This office supports and coordinates with all National Forest ranger districts and supervisor offices within the region. |
| Rocky Mountain Region |
The majority of National Forest Service lands contained within Colorado, Kansas, Nebraska, South Dakota, and Wyoming. |
| Shapefile |
A popular geospatial vector data format for geographic information systems software. It is developed and regulated by ESRI as a (mostly) open specification for data interoperability among ESRI and other software products. A "shapefile" commonly refers to a collection of files with ".shp", ".shx", ".dbf", and other extensions on a common prefix name (e.g., "lakes.*"). The actual shapefile relates specifically to files with the ".shp" extension, however this file alone is incomplete for distribution, as the other supporting files are required.
Shapefiles spatially describe geometries: points, polylines, and polygons. These, for example, could represent water wells, rivers, and lakes, respectively. Each item may also have attributes that describe the items, such as the name or temperature.
(Wikipedia) |
| Supervisor Office |
Central office of a National Forest. This office may oversee Ranger districts on multiple National Forests. |
| Trailhead |
The point of origin of a designated trail. It may or may not have developed amenities. |
| Wilderness Areas |
National Forest lands that have recognized wilderness status or designation. |
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