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Depicts the spatial boundary of Wildland Urban Interface (WUI) as defined in Community Wildfire Protection Plans (CWPP), "at-risk communities", and "evacuation routes" as outlined in the Healthy Forest Restoration Act (HFRA) of 2003. For CWPPs, the boundaries should reflect exactly what is in the signed CWPPs to be used for HFRA Categorical Exclusion (CE) exceptions where HFRA WUI is legally required, when following USFS direction, and for activities that use Inflation Reduction Act spending. For at-risk communities, community boundaries may be actual or approximate depending on the source. The at-risk communities have been buffered by the buffer distance supplied in the HFRA_AtRisk layer. For evacuation routes, they have been buffered by the provided buffer distance in HFRA_Evac, if no buffer distance was added a default 1 mi buffer was used. HFRA_CWPP, HFRA_AtRisk, HFRA_Evac have all been combined into one national layer to show the full extent of HFRA WUI. The first step to combine data is to dissovle HFRA_CWPP, HFRA_AtRisk, and HFRA_Evac independtly on the FS Region that submitted the data. Then in FME, and Area On Area Overlayer produces a union of all three of the layers. The field "Source" is populated with the name of every layer that occupied that spatial area in a comma separated list. For example, Source may look like "CWPP, At-Risk Community", or "CWPP", or "CWPP, At-Risk Community, Evacuation Route". Each FS Region is only responsible for populating data within their Region. Becuase of buffers there is potential for regional data to overlap into another region. Data stewards should review data that is spataily located in their region (field: "Region") when the field "RegionSubmitted" is a defferent region. FS Regions should not be adding data that is entirely outside of their region, and any data where the value for "RegionSubmitted" is not included in the value for "Region" will be excluded. This is an interim layer until all data and sources can be moved to appropriate SDE locations, and at... |
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Depicts the spatial boundary of Wildland Urban Interface (WUI) as defined in Community Wildfire Protection Plans (CWPP), "at-risk communities", and "evacuation routes" as outlined in the Healthy Forest Restoration Act (HFRA) of 2003. For CWPPs, the boundaries should reflect exactly what is in the signed CWPPs to be used for HFRA Categorical Exclusion (CE) exceptions where HFRA WUI is legally required, when following USFS direction, and for activities that use Inflation Reduction Act spending. For at-risk communities, community boundaries may be actual or approximate depending on the source. The at-risk communities have been buffered by the buffer distance supplied in the HFRA_AtRisk layer. For evacuation routes, they have been buffered by the provided buffer distance in HFRA_Evac, if no buffer distance was added a default 1 mi buffer was used. HFRA_CWPP, HFRA_AtRisk, HFRA_Evac have all been combined into one national layer to show the full extent of HFRA WUI. The first step to combine data is to dissovle HFRA_CWPP, HFRA_AtRisk, and HFRA_Evac independtly on the FS Region that submitted the data. Then in FME, and Area On Area Overlayer produces a union of all three of the layers. The field "Source" is populated with the name of every layer that occupied that spatial area in a comma separated list. For example, Source may look like "CWPP, At-Risk Community", or "CWPP", or "CWPP, At-Risk Community, Evacuation Route". Each FS Region is only responsible for populating data within their Region. Becuase of buffers there is potential for regional data to overlap into another region. Data stewards should review data that is spataily located in their region (field: "Region") when the field "RegionSubmitted" is a defferent region. FS Regions should not be adding data that is entirely outside of their region, and any data where the value for "RegionSubmitted" is not included in the value for "Region" will be excluded. This is an interim layer until all data and sources can be moved to appropriate SDE locations, and at... |
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<DIV STYLE="text-align:Left;"><DIV><DIV><P><SPAN>For the HFRA_WUI feature class consolidates HFRA_CWPP, HFRA_AtRisk_Buffered, and HFRA_Evac_Buffered. The HFRA_CWPP feature class represents the WUI as described or mapped in the Part A definition of HFRA_WUI, 2003. The CWPP data is developed by counties, therefore the Forest Service is not the authoritative source for these boundaries. The CWPP areas are consolidated into the Forest Service system to facilitate legal and fiscal interpretations of WUI areas. These transactional HFRA_CWPP boundaries have been combined with Part B definition of buffered HFRA_AtRisk (communities) and buffered HFRA_Evac (routes) where legally appropriate. The EDW HFRA_WUI layer will be considered the authoritative data source and is designed ONLY for use with HFRA Fuels categorical exclusions, where HFRA WUI is legally required, when following USFS direction, and fiscal decisions, specifically funds granted in the Inflation Reduction Act (IRA). Examples of IRA funding that use HFRA WUI include priority landscapes and keystone partnerships. To filter comma delimited fields, such as source, use "contains" in the definition query or selection by attribute functions.</SPAN></P></DIV></DIV></DIV> |
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<DIV STYLE="text-align:Left;"><DIV><DIV><P><SPAN>The USDA Forest Service makes no warranty, expressed or implied, including the warranties of merchantability and fitness for a particular purpose, nor assumes any legal liability or responsibility for the accuracy, reliability, completeness or utility of these geospatial data, or for the improper or incorrect use of these geospatial data. These geospatial data and related maps or graphics are not legal documents and are not intended to be used as such. The data and maps may not be used to determine title, ownership, legal descriptions or boundaries, legal jurisdiction, or restrictions that may be in place on either public or private land. Natural hazards may or may not be depicted on the data and maps, and users should exercise due caution. The data are dynamic and may change over time. The user is responsible to verify the limitations of the geospatial data and to use the data accordingly.</SPAN></P></DIV></DIV></DIV> |
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