Land ownership in Northwest Forest Plan region of Washington, Oregon and California

Geographic information systems (GIS) shapefile identifying classes of land ownership within the Northwest Forest Plan region (plus a 50 km buffer) in the United States of America, including parts of the states of Washington, Oregon and California. The ownership categories identified are: federal, state, private industrial, private non-industrial, private conservation, indian, other and unknown.

This dataset should be regarded as preliminary, has no official status, and the creator takes no responsibility for any errors. The layer has been clipped to state boundaries, and to within a 50 km buffer of the NWFP boundary.

The dataset was developed to investigate the trajectories of vegetation change (older forests and early-seral ecosystems) and changes in bird populations within different ownership categories before and after the implementation of the Northwest Forest Plan. This analysis is described in a paper which will be linked here when published.