National Wildlife Refuges - Approved Acquisition Boundaries for Region 1 Mainland States

This dataset depicts approved acquisition boundary information for National
Wildlife Refuges located in Oregon, Washington, Idaho, Nevada and California
(Region 1 mainland states). The primary source for boundary information is the
USFWS Realty and Refuge Planning programs.

The intended application of the data is to serve as a resource grade spatial
reference of refuge locations and distributions as well as identifing the
extent of lands authorized for acquisition by the Fish and Wildlife Service. It
is specifically not intended to be used as a representation of land ownership,
land survey, land conveyance, or for tax purposes. The boundaries included in
this dataset depict approved acquisition boundaries. Approved acquisition
boundaries represent the extent of lands authorized for purchase by the Fish
and Wildlife Service for inclusion into the National Wildlife Refuge System.
This dataset includes, but, does not specifically identify lands currently
managed by the Fish and Wildlife Service. Private lands, as well as state and
local government lands are included inside many of the boundaries. Land
ownership data is availiable for many of the refuges. Contact the R1 Division
of Refuge Planning for details. These boundaries were derived from various
sources which were 1:24000 or larger in scale. For more detailed information
regarding source and lineage of individual boundaries, contact the R1 Division
of Refuge Planning for more information. Unattributed polygons, as a rule,
represent lands excluded from acquisition.