Recommended Wilderness Areas of Big Bend National Park, Texas (Generated in 2003 by the Intermountain Region GIS Support Office)
National Park Service, Intermountain Region GIS Support Office. 2003. Recommended Wilderness Areas of Big Bend National Park, Texas (Generated in 2003 by the Intermountain Region GIS Support Office). National Park Service Intermountain Region GIS Support Office
This shapefile contains boundaries for Recommended Wilderness, Potential Wilderness, and Non-Wilderness in Big Bend National Park, Texas. This dataset is derived from the latest official NPS Wilderness Recommendation which was transmitted from the President to Congress on 5/11/1978, but never enacted. The official Wilderness Recommendation is based on careful study of roadless areas, public hearings, and written responses. This dataset has been revised from the official map to adjust buffers along roads and utilities, account for changes to the boundary and land status, and reflect more accurate measurement available through new GIS technology. Land added to the boundary after the 1978 recommendation has not been studied for wilderness. This dataset identifies 538,463.84 acres within Big Bend National Park as Recommended Wilderness (538,250 acres in 1978), 38,351.09 acres as Potential Wilderness (44,750 acres in 1978). The remaining 143,844.67 acres were determined to be not suitable for wilderness designation or potential wilderness at this time.
- Type
- Geospatial Dataset
- Authors
- National Park Service, Intermountain Region GIS Support Office
- Date of Issue
- 2003
- Publisher
- National Park Service Intermountain Region GIS Support Office
- Units
- BIBE
- Keywords
- BIBE, Big Bend National Park, Environment, General Management