Okanogan-Wenatchee National Forest Data Library

Geographic Information Systems

Metadata Information

Welcome to the Okanogan-Wenatchee 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.

The metadata files contain information about the data: geographic coordinate information, how the data set was built, featureclasses contained within the dataset, and who to contact with questions about the published datasets. A phone number and name of the data steward is contained within the metadata file. Please contact the data steward if you have any questions about the content of the data. 

Data files served on this site are personal or file geodatabases that have been compressed with WinZip.  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.

This data is updated frequently - you'll find specific update information in the Metadata file.

Theme (geodatabase)	Dataset Names and Metadata	Zipped Export for All Datasets within Theme
Activities	Activity	6 mb
CartographicReference	AerialPhotoReference Annotation CartographicReference	7 mb
ConstructedFeatures	Communication ConstructedFeatures	150 kb
FireAndAviation	Airport FireHistory FirePlanning	15 mb
FishAndWildlife	Fish_Management Wildlife	25 mb
Geophysical	Geology   Topography	155 mb
Hydro	Climate Hydrography Hydrology Impaired_Water_303D Watershed	44 mb
InsectDisease	Forest Insect & Disease - Aerial Survey Data	Link to Forest Health Web Page
Land	Land SpecialUse	3.2 mb
ManagementDirection	LandManagementPlan ResourceManagement RMU	14 mb
Recreation	Recreation	120 kb
Transportation	Transportation	OKW 16 mb
Vegetation	Vegetation_Ecology Vegetation_Genetics Vegetation_Historic Vegetation_Stand Vegetation_TimberSuitability	60 mb

USDA Forest Service - R6 Data Library
Last Modified: Thursday, 28 March 2013 at 17:56:48 EDT