Wilderness Areas of Canyonlands National Park, Utah (Generated in 1999 for HR 3035-IH)
National Park Service, Intermountain Region GIS Support Office. 2002. Wilderness Areas of Canyonlands National Park, Utah (Generated in 1999 for HR 3035-IH). National Park Service Intermountain Region GIS Support Office
This shapefile contains boundaries for Recommended Wilderness, Potential Wilderness, and Non-Wilderness in Canyonlands National Park (CANY), Utah. 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 studies 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. This dataset identifies 285,912.21 acres within CANY as Recommended Wilderness (260,150 acres in the original 1974 document). This dataset also identifies 119.31 acres as Potential Wilderness (18,270 acres in the original). The remaining 48,049.75 acres of the park were determined to be not suitable for wilderness designation or potential wilderness at this time. The difference in acreage calculations is due to the increased accuracy and associated error of recreating an analog dataset into a digital form using GIS technology.
- Type
- Geospatial Dataset
- Authors
- National Park Service, Intermountain Region GIS Support Office
- Date of Issue
- 2002
- Publisher
- National Park Service Intermountain Region GIS Support Office
- Units
- CANY
- Keywords
- CANY, Canyonlands National Park, Environment, Wilderness