Colville National Forest Data Library

Geographic Information Systems

Metadata Information

Welcome to the Colville National Forest GIS Data Dictionary. This page contains GIS data and metadata for commonly requested datasets.. The datasets are organized by theme. A list of themes is in the frame on the left hand side of the page.

Metadata files (data about data) contain geographic information about the data set, who the data steward is, how the data set was built, and other associated information. It will also describe the database tables that are associated with the data set. Please contact the data steward if you have questions about the content of the data.  Their phone number is included within the data dictionary.

Data files served on this site are personal or file geodatabases that have been compressed with WinZip.  Unless stated otherwise, the export file size is less than 1 megabyte.  Projection is a local Albers projection defined for the area of Oregon and Washington in Region 6 of the Forest Service, NAD 83, units are in meters. 

Contact information for each dataset is contained within the metadata.

Last updated February 14, 2012

Data on this website is updated often. The name of the file indicates the date it was posted.

Theme (geodatabase)	Dataset Description (feature class)	Metadata	Export file
Activities	ActivityLine ActivityPoint ActivityPolygon ActivityPolygon_Table		4.6 mb
CartographicReference	Annotation (1:63360 scale) GeolocCell LatLong Quad Quad_15M UTMLine		5.2 mb
ConstructedFeatures	CommunicationSite RadioDeadzone BuildingPoint cf_ln (constructed features - line) cf_pt (constructed features - point)		464kb
FireAndAviation	FireHistoryPl FireHistoryPt DispatchLocation FireManagementUnit FireManagementZone StructureDensity WUI		1.6 mb
FishAndWildlife	Fish_Distribution WL_CaribouBFZ WL_CaribouHabitat WL_CaribouMU WL_CaribouTargetStand WL_CaribouVegPoint WL_CaribouZone WL_GrizBMU WL_GrizCore WL_GrizHabitat WL_GrizSec WL_LynxLAU WL_LynxRange WL_PMPW_Grid WL_PMPW_Habitat WL_WolverineHabitat		5.4 mb
Geophysical	GeoResourcePoint LandtypeGeologyVeg LTA (Land Type Association) MineralPotential Contour_100 Contour_40		128.4 mb
Hydro	Monitoring Precipitation Stream_LLID Waterbody WetlandLine WetlandPoint WetlandPolygon SNOTEL StreamTempMonitoring NHD_HydrologicalUnits		21.6 mb
InsectDisease	Forest Insect & Disease - Aerial Survey Data	Link to Forest Health Web Page
Land	AdmiinSitePoint AdministrativeForest County GNIS RangerDistrict Section Township		1.5 mb
ManagementDirection	LandMgmtPlanPolygon ExistingVisualCondition ManagementBoundary OldGrowth ResearchNaturalArea Visual rmu_subunit (Range Mgmt Unit Pasture) rmu_unit (Range Mgmt Unit Allotment)		5.1 mb
Recreation	DispersedRecSitePoint RecreationOpportSpectrum RecreationSitePoint		869 kb
Transportation	Road Trail		25.4 mb
Vegetation	PAG (Plant Association Group) PNV (Potential Natural Vegetation) VegBiophys		58.2 mb

USDA Forest Service - R6 Data Library
Last Modified: Tuesday, 14 February 2012 at 18:50:57 EST