USGS PAD-US Data

<p><b>Open the Data Resource:</b> <a href='https://www.usgs.gov/programs/gap-analysis-project/science/pad-us-data-overview' rel='nofollow ugc'>https://www.usgs.gov/programs/gap-analysis-project/science/pad-us-data-overview</a></p> <p>PAD-US is America’s official national inventory of U.S. terrestrial and marine protected areas that are dedicated to the preservation of biological diversity and to other natural, recreation and cultural uses, managed for these purposes through legal or other effective means. PAD-US also includes the best available aggregation of federal land and marine areas provided directly by managing agencies, coordinated through the Federal Geographic Data Committee Federal Lands Working Group.</p>