USFS Surface Drinking Water Importance: Forests to Faucets Data

Open the Data Resource: https://apps.fs.usda.gov/arcx/rest/services/EDW/EDW_ForeststoFaucets_02/MapServer/2 The Forests to Faucets dataset provides a watershed index of surface drinking water importance, a watershed index of forest importance to surface drinking water and a watershed index to highlight the extent to which development, fire, and insects and disease threaten forests important for surface drinking water. The Forests to Faucets assessment provides information that can identify areas of interest for protecting surface drinking water quality. The spatial dataset can be incorporated into broad-scale planning, as well as existing decision-support tools that currently lack spatial data on important areas for surface drinking water. This project also sets the groundwork for identifying watersheds where a payment for watershed services (PWS) scheme may be an option for financing forest conservation and management on private unprotected forest lands. In perhaps its most important but most basic role, this work can serve as an education tool helping to illustrate the link between forests and provision of key watershed-based ecosystem services. This tabular dataset is meant to be joined with the NRCS Watershed Boundary Dataset HUC-12. The Forests to Faucets layer does not cover Alaska, Hawaii or U.S. Territories. For a full metadata description, visit https://data.fs.usda.gov/geodata/edw/edw_resources/meta/S_USA.ForestsToFaucets.xml.请访问以下数据源：https://apps.fs.usda.gov/arcx/rest/services/EDW/EDW_ForeststoFaucets_02/MapServer/2。“森林到水龙头（Forests to Faucets）”数据集提供三类流域指数：即地表饮用水水源重要性流域指数、森林对地表饮用水水源重要性流域指数，以及用于凸显开发、火灾、病虫害对保障地表饮用水水源的森林所造成威胁程度的流域指数。该评估成果可提供用于识别地表饮用水水源保护重点区域的相关信息。该空间数据集可应用于大范围规划工作，亦可集成至当前缺乏地表饮用水水源重点区域空间数据的既有决策支持工具当中。本项目同时为流域识别工作奠定了基础——在部分流域内，流域服务付费（Payment for Watershed Services, PWS）机制可作为私人未受保护林地的森林保护与管理的融资选项。或许在其最为至关重要且兼具基础性的功能中，这项工作可作为教育工具，用以阐释森林与关键流域型生态系统服务供给之间的内在关联。该表格数据集需与美国自然资源保护局（Natural Resources Conservation Service, NRCS）的流域边界数据集HUC-12进行关联匹配。“森林到水龙头”图层未覆盖阿拉斯加、夏威夷及美国海外领地。如需获取完整元数据描述，请访问：https://data.fs.usda.gov/geodata/edw/edw_resources/meta/S_USA.ForestsToFaucets.xml。