Public Law 109-54 of August 2, 2005, Title IV - General Provisions, Sec 412 further amended the K-V Act to allow the collection and use of CWKV funds for watershed restoration, wildlife habitat improvement, to prepare timber sales, control of insects, disease, and noxious weeds, fire community protection activities, and the maintenance of forest roads within the Forest Service region in which the timber sale occurred. Since its creation millions of acres of National Forest System lands (NFS) have been treated and restored to resilient conditions and terrestrial and aquatic habitat improved.

This includes performing soil improvement and watershed restoration, wildlife habitat improvement, control of insects, disease, and noxious weeds, tree planting, seeding and other cultural treatments necessary to maintain and improve land productivity. Production of renewable resources on timber sale areas. The RngVegImprove feature class depicts the area planned and accomplished areas treated as a part of the Range Vegetation Improvement program of work, funded through the budget allocation process and reported through the Forest Service Activity Tracking System (FACTS) database within the Natural Resource Manager (NRM) suite of If you have questions, contact: by keyword:

An option to download to KML is available from that website. To obtain a KML file for any EDW dataset, go to the Geospatial Data Discovery Tool and search for the dataset. The Enterprise Data Warehouse Team tested exporting out to KML/KMZ files as a deliverable and due to the complexity and size of the datasets this has been unsuccessful.

More FS map services are available in ArcGIS Online.

You can view the feature classes in a single dataset by clicking on the name of the parent dataset at the bottom of the abstract. You can filter the list by the topic categories in the menu at the left to help you find information you are interested in. Metadata is available that describes the content, source, and currency of the data.

Data collected and managed by Forest Service programs is available in a map service and two downloadable file formats – in a shape file and an ESRI file geodatabase.

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