Forest ownership in the conterminous United States circa 2007: ForestOwn_v1 geospatial dataset

ForestOwn_v1 is a 250-meter spatial resolution raster geospatial dataset of forest ownership of the conterminous United States (CONUS). The dataset was prepared by the Forest Inventory and Analysis (FIA) program, Northern Research Station, Forest Service, United States Department of Agriculture (USDA), and differentiates forest from non-forest land and water, public and private ownership, and the percent of private forest land in corporate ownership. The forest/non-forest land/water classification is derived from the USDA Forest Service's CONUS Forest/Nonforest dataset. Public and private land ownership class is derived from the Protected Areas Database of the United States, Version 1.1 (CBI Edition). Corporate ownership of private forest land is derived from the Forest Service's 2007 Resources Planning Act (RPA) dataset, summarized over the Environmental Protection Agency's Original Environmental Monitoring & Assessment Program (EMAP) grid 648 square kilometer hexagon dataset.The ForestOwn_v1 dataset is designed for conducting geospatial analyses and for producing cartographic products over regional to national geographic extents.A corresponding Research Map (RMAP) has been produced to cartographically portray this dataset. Original metadata date was 02/09/2011. Minor metadata updates were made on 05/10/2013, 04/16/2014, 12/21/2016, and 02/06/2017. Additional minor metadata updates were made on 04/20/2023. On 03/19/2026, "circa 2007" was added to the title to help prevent confusion with related data publications along with a few minor updates to URLs, etc. On 07/23/2020 a new version of these data became available (Sass et al. 2020) and on 09/10/2025 an even newer version was published (Harris et al. 2025).