Completed treatments involving fenced exclosures or protective devices on trees or soil surfaces on Bureau of Land Management (BLM) lands in Oregon and Washington. The dataset represents polygons where the entire area is considered treated with protection measures. It is published by the Department of the Interior and was last updated in March 2026.
Use Cases
- Map the spatial distribution of protective treatments based on the polygon geometry.
- Analyze land management strategies for vegetation and soil protection based on the described treatment types.
- Assess the scale of completed protection projects on BLM-managed lands based on the polygon area data.
- Integrate with other themes like structures (STRCT_ARC/PT) for a comprehensive view of protection measures.
Strengths
- Data is explicitly geospatial, provided in multiple GIS formats including GeoJSON and KML.
- Focus is on completed treatments, indicating a record of implemented actions.
- Geographic scope is clearly defined as BLM-managed lands in Oregon and Washington.
- License is us-pd (public domain), allowing for unrestricted use.
Limitations
- Column-level documentation is absent; field semantics must be inferred after download.
- Row count and dataset size are unknown, which may limit suitability assessment.
- Description metadata is limited; actual data quality requires manual inspection after download.
Provenance
- Source
- Department of the Interior
- Collection Method
- Likely compiled from BLM land management records.
- Time Range
- null
- Freshness
- Last updated 2026-03-26 12:42:01.037095; freshness should be verified.
- Geography
- Bureau of Land Management (BLM) managed lands in Oregon and Washington, USA.