USA Forest Service Lands

The US Forest Service manages 193 million acres including the nation"s 154 National Forests and 20 National Grasslands. These lands provide a wide variety of recreational opportunities, protect sources of clean water, and supply timber and forage. Dataset Summary Phenomenon Mapped: United States lands managed by the US Forest Service Geographic Extent: Contiguous United States, Alaska, and Puerto Rico Mosaic Projection: Web Mercator Auxiliary Sphere Data Coordinate System: WGS 1984 Cell Size: 30.92208102 meters Units: Meters Source Type: Discrete Pixel Type: 8-bit unsigned integer Source: USFS Surface Ownership Parcels layer Rasterized by Esri from features May 2025. Publication Date: May 2025 The service behind this layer was published as one of 6 functions allowing the user to select lands managed by a single agency. Other layers created from this service using these processing templates include: USA Bureau of Land Management Lands USA Bureau of Reclamation Lands USA Department of Defense Lands USA National Park Service Lands USA Fish and Wildlife Service Lands A hosted feature service created from these data is also available. What can you do with this Layer? This layer is suitable for both visualization and analysis across the ArcGIS system. This layer can be combined with your data and other layers from the ArcGIS Living Atlas of the World in ArcGIS Online and ArcGIS Pro to create powerful web maps that can be used alone or in a story map or other application. Because this layer is part of the ArcGIS Living Atlas of the World it is easy to add to your map: In ArcGIS Online, you can add this layer to a map by selecting Add then Browse Living Atlas Layers. A window will open. Type "federal lands" in the search box and browse to the layer. Select the layer then click Add to Map. In ArcGIS Pro, open a map and select Add Data from the Map Tab. Select Data at the top of the drop down menu. The Add Data dialog box will open on the left side of the box, expand Portal if necessary, then select Living Atlas. Type "federal lands" in the search box, browse to the layer then click OK. In ArcGIS Pro you can use the built-in raster functions or create your own to create custom extracts of the data. Imagery layers provide fast, powerful inputs to geoprocessing tools, models, or Python scripts in Pro. Online you can filter the layer to show subsets of the data using the filter button and the layer"s built-in raster functions. The ArcGIS Living Atlas of the World provides an easy way to explore many other beautiful and authoritative maps on hundreds of topics like this one. Questions? Please leave a comment below if you have a question about this layer, and we will get back to you as soon as possible.