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    • Fire AerialFireRetardantAvoidanceAreas Aquatic (Open Data Hub)

    Metadata Updated: February 12, 2026

    This data depicts aquatic aerial fire retardant avoidance areas delivered as part of the 2011 Nationwide Aerial Application of Fire Retardant on National Forest System Land Environmental Impact Statement, the 2023 Supplemental Environmental Impact Statement, and the 2024 Record of Decision.This data shows areas where the aerial application of fire retardant should be avoided in order to prevent the potential of impacts to aquatic features across National Forest lands. The data is based on the high resolution National Hydrographic Dataset (NHD) produced by USGS. Each National Forest has the opportunity annually to modify the default NHD water representation (300ft buffer around all perennial and intermittent water features) to more accurately represent aquatic aerial fire retardant avoidance areas.This data is to be used in planning and implementation phases of U.S. Forest Service fire activities to help prevent intrusions of aerial fire retardant in these aquatic areas throughout National Forest lands. Provided here is a regionally merged dataset. This data has been merged, dissolved, and erased of attributes contained in each original component dataset. For this purpose, specific attributes are not necessary, as any spatial areas depicted simply show areas where aerial fire retardant use is to be avoided as stated in U.S. Forest Service guidelines.

    Access & Use Information

    Public: This dataset is intended for public access and use. License: Creative Commons Attribution

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    Dates

    Metadata Created Date May 8, 2025
    Metadata Updated Date February 12, 2026

    Metadata Source

    Harvested from USDA JSON

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    Additional Metadata

    Resource Type Dataset
    Metadata Created Date May 8, 2025
    Metadata Updated Date February 12, 2026
    Publisher U.S. Forest Service
    Maintainer
    Identifier https://www.arcgis.com/home/item.html?id=4f3a1dac441040a6a5876db50fda933a
    Data First Published 2025-03-31
    Data Last Modified 2025-04-02
    Category geospatial
    Public Access Level public
    Bureau Code 005:96
    Metadata Context https://project-open-data.cio.gov/v1.1/schema/catalog.jsonld
    Schema Version https://project-open-data.cio.gov/v1.1/schema
    Catalog Describedby https://project-open-data.cio.gov/v1.1/schema/catalog.json
    Harvest Object Id ec7a0813-4c3a-4fae-9863-928b8b49364f
    Harvest Source Id d3fafa34-0cb9-48f1-ab1d-5b5fdc783806
    Harvest Source Title USDA JSON
    Homepage URL https://data-usfs.hub.arcgis.com/documents/usfs::fire-aerialfireretardantavoidanceareas-aquatic-open-data-hub
    License https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
    Metadata Type geospatial
    Old Spatial ""
    Program Code 005:059
    Progresscode onGoing
    Source Datajson Identifier True
    Source Hash 311bf9e85bd543f25a2b08d8c083e71515c257d7ee27fd2c39109b5fb982e142
    Source Schema Version 1.1
    Spatial ""

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