Wilderness Areas of Cedar Breaks National Monument, Utah (Generated in 1999 for HR 3035-IH)
National Park Service, Intermountain GIS Program Office. 2002. Wilderness Areas of Cedar Breaks National Monument, 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 Cedar Breaks National Monument (CEBR), Utah. This dataset is derived from the latest official NPS Wilderness Recommendation which was transmitted from the President to Congress on 1/12/1976, 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 4,838.75 acres within CEBR as Recommended Wilderness (4,830 acres in the original 1973 document). This dataset also identifies 0 acres as Potential Wilderness (0 acres in the original). The remaining 1,290.67 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 GIS Program Office
- Date of Issue
- 2002
- Publisher
- National Park Service Intermountain Region GIS Support Office
- Units
- CEBR
- Keywords
- CEBR, Cedar Breaks National Monument, Environment, Wilderness