This statewide data set includes Bureau of Land Management, U.S. Forest Service, National Park Service and Fish Wildlife Service Riparian Natural Conservation areas, Wilderness Study areas and Wilderness or Primitive areas.
Purpose
The data are created to serve as base information for use in GIS systems for a variety of planning and analysis purposes. Use of data for Engineering work is prohibited. This datasets is made available to interested persons through the University of Arizona's instance of Open Geoportal. It has been provided to assist educators, students, researchers, and policy makers in mapping and/or analysis applications.
Temporal Extent
Time Period
Begin
1993-01-01T00:00:00
End
1993-12-31T00:00:00
Bounding Box
West
-114.883382
East
-108.915583
North
37.033864
South
31.285504
ISO Topic Category
biota
boundaries
environment
Theme Keyword
Protected Areas
Wild Lands
Conservation
Theme Keyword Thesaurus
Place Keyword
Arizona
Place Keyword Thesaurus
Place Keyword
State of Arizona
Place Keyword Thesaurus
GNIS
Status
completed
Maintenance and Update Frequency
notPlanned
Language
eng
Point of Contact
Contact
Arizona State Land Department, Arizona Land Resources Information System
Position Name
GIS Data Transfer Specialist
Delivery Point
1616 West Adams
City
Phoenix
Administrative Area
Arizona
Postal Code
85007
Country
US
Email
gisdata@lnd.state.az.us
Phone
(602) 542-4709
Spatial Reference Information
Reference System Identifier
Code
NAD83 / UTM zone 12N (EPSG:26912)
Code Space
EPSG
Version
7.9
Data Quality Information
Quantitative Attribute Accuracy Report
Absolute External Positional Accuracy
Absolute External Positional Accuracy
Lineage
Process Step
Description
Forest Service wilderness boundaries were digitized from 7.5 minute quadrangles.
Process Date
Process Step
Description
Bureau of Land Management (BLM) wilderness boundaries were digitized using USGS 1:24,000 scale quadrangle maps which were photo reduced to 1:40,000-1:80,000 scale maps.
Process Date
Process Step
Description
Dataset renamed from Wildrnes.shp to Arizona_WildernessAreas_1990.shp by Ben Hickson with the University of Arizona Library. Metadata fields corresponding the Open Geoportal Working Group Best Practices Guide (http://opengeoportal.org/working-groups/metadata/) were also updated.
