Identification_Information: Citation: Citation_Information: Originator: Sean P. Finn Originator: Steven E. Hanser Originator: Cara W. Meinke Originator: Adam Smith Publication_Date: 2004 Title: The Great Western Fire Map (<=2003) Geospatial_Data_Presentation_Form: vector digital data Other_Citation_Details: Information contained in this dataset were manipulated to produce Figure 7.6, Chapter 7, p. 75, in Connelly, J. W., S. T. Knick, M. A. Schroeder, and S. J. Stiver. 2004. Conservation assessment of Greater Sage-grouse and sagebrush habitats. Western Association of Fish and Wildlife Agencies. Unpublished Report. Cheyenne, Wyoming. Online_Linkage: http:\\sagemap.wr.usgs.gov Description: Abstract: A summary data set of all fire polygons we could locate as of June 2004. Source data were gathered from the internet, publically available databases, and personal contacts with dozens of agency personnel throught the western U.S. Data were assessed for utility (but not accuracy) and formatted for consistency. Each source data set was then attributed consistently with fields for record number, source file, and year (of fire). Then the record number and source file fields were concatenated. These 4 fields were carried through subsequent merges so that each resulting polygon could be cross-referenced with the original source data. Because various resource management entities map fires somewhat independently (especially in more recent years) there exists some overlap of data in this summary coverage. Users are encouraged to understand the contents of this data file before using it. Also, see the associated spreadsheet that points to all available metadata for source files. Purpose: Data originally gathered and created for the Rangewide Conservation Assessment of Sage-grouse and Sagebrush Habitats (for which to dataset was modified to suit particular analyses), but may be used as reasonably complete historical fire record for the western U.S. Supplemental_Information: This dataset required some 150 man-hours and countless computer time to process. Please cite the authors appropriately. Though this coverage may not be a fully complete record of historical fires, it is as complete a record of available data as we could gather. Time_Period_of_Content: Time_Period_Information: Range_of_Dates/Times: Beginning_Date: 1870 Ending_Date: 2003 Currentness_Reference: publication date Status: Progress: Complete Maintenance_and_Update_Frequency: None planned Spatial_Domain: Bounding_Coordinates: West_Bounding_Coordinate: -130.115672 East_Bounding_Coordinate: -41.761475 North_Bounding_Coordinate: 90.000000 South_Bounding_Coordinate: 63.571410 Keywords: Theme: Theme_Keyword_Thesaurus: None Theme_Keyword: Fires Theme_Keyword: Wildfires Theme_Keyword: Prescribed Fires Theme_Keyword: Burns Theme: Theme_Keyword_Thesaurus: Geospatial One Stop Theme_Keyword: Ecosystems Theme_Keyword: Forestry Theme_Keyword: Vegetation Theme_Keyword: Historical Events Theme_Keyword: Environment and Conservation Theme_Keyword: Land Cover Theme_Keyword: Natural Resources Theme_Keyword: Environmental Risk Place: Place_Keyword_Thesaurus: None Place_Keyword: Washington Place_Keyword: Oregon Place_Keyword: California Place_Keyword: Idaho Place_Keyword: Nevada Place_Keyword: Utah Place_Keyword: Arizona Place_Keyword: Montana Place_Keyword: Wyoming Place_Keyword: Colorado Place_Keyword: New Mexico Place_Keyword: North Dakota Place_Keyword: South Dakota Place_Keyword: Nebraska Place_Keyword: United States Place_Keyword: British Columbia Place_Keyword: Alberta Place_Keyword: Saskatchewan Place_Keyword: Canada Place_Keyword: North America Access_Constraints: None Use_Constraints: None, but the user assumes all resposibility for appropriate use of the data. Point_of_Contact: Contact_Information: Contact_Person_Primary: Contact_Person: Sean P Finn Contact_Organization: USGS, Snake River Field Station Contact_Position: Wildlife Biologist (GIS) Contact_Address: Address_Type: mailing and physical address Address: 970 Lusk St City: Boise State_or_Province: ID Postal_Code: 83706 Country: USA Contact_Voice_Telephone: 208-426-2697 Contact_Facsimile_Telephone: 208-426-5210 Contact_Electronic_Mail_Address: sfinn@usgs.gov Hours_of_Service: 8 - 5 Data_Set_Credit: Sean P. Finn, Steven E. Hanser, Cara W. Meinke, and Adam Smith, USGS Snake River Field Station, SAGEMAP Project. Security_Information: Security_Classification_System: none Security_Classification: none Security_Handling_Description: none Native_Data_Set_Environment: Microsoft Windows 2000 Version 5.0 (Build 2195) Service Pack 4; ESRI ArcCatalog 8.3.0.800 Data_Quality_Information: Attribute_Accuracy: Attribute_Accuracy_Report: Dependent upon source data; see source metadata files Logical_Consistency_Report: Dependent upon source data; see source metadata files Completeness_Report: This coverage contains information only for those fires mapped during 1870 - 2003, and only for those fires for which we could find information. Thus, this coverage is inherently incomplete. However, the coverage is likely to be more complete for more recent years relative to earlier years due to the increased importance and methodology of delineating fire boundaries. Because various resource management entities map fires somewhat independently (especially in more recent years) there exists some overlap of data in this summary coverage. Users are encouraged to understand the contents of this data file before using it. See source metadata files for completeness information on individual source files. Lineage: Source_Information: Source_Citation: Citation_Information: Originator: Various; see source metadata Publication_Date: Unpublished Material Title: Various; see source metadata Geospatial_Data_Presentation_Form: vector digital data Source_Scale_Denominator: 100,000 Type_of_Source_Media: various Source_Time_Period_of_Content: Time_Period_Information: Range_of_Dates/Times: Beginning_Date: 1870 Ending_Date: 2003 Source_Currentness_Reference: ground condition Source_Citation_Abbreviation: various Source_Contribution: See metadata of source data; note source scale denominator is approximate Process_Step: Process_Description: 486 source files gathered from state, provincial, and federal resource agancies were cataloged, and standardized in terms of format and projection. Source_Used_Citation_Abbreviation: various Process_Date: 2002-2004 Source_Produced_Citation_Abbreviation: see fire_sources.xls Process_Contact: Contact_Information: Contact_Person_Primary: Contact_Person: Sean P. Finn Contact_Organization: USGS, Snake River Field Station Contact_Position: Wildlife Biologist (GIS) Contact_Address: Address_Type: mailing and physical address Address: 970 Lusk St City: Boise State_or_Province: ID Postal_Code: 83706 Country: USA Contact_Voice_Telephone: 208-426-2697 Contact_Facsimile_Telephone: 208-426-5210 Contact_Electronic_Mail_Address: sfinn@usgs.gov Hours_of_Service: 8 - 5 Process_Step: Process_Description: Added 3 fields to each source file: RECNMBR (record number), SOURCE_FIL (source_file), SOURCE_POL (source_poly). RECNMBR populated with consecutive unique numbers for each record. SOURCE_FIL populated with the original file name for each individual dataset. SOURCE_POL populated with a concatenation of RECNMBR + SOURCE_FIL giving each source polygon a unique identifier. Source_Used_Citation_Abbreviation: various Process_Date: 2004 Source_Produced_Citation_Abbreviation: see fire_sources.xls Process_Contact: Contact_Information: Contact_Person_Primary: Contact_Person: Sean P. Finn Contact_Organization: USGS, Snake River Field Station Contact_Position: Wildlife Biologist (GIS) Contact_Address: Address_Type: mailing and physical address Address: 970 Lusk St City: Boise State_or_Province: ID Postal_Code: 83706 Country: USA Contact_Voice_Telephone: 208-426-2697 Contact_Facsimile_Telephone: 208-426-5210 Contact_Electronic_Mail_Address: sfinn@usgs.gov Hours_of_Service: 8 - 5 Process_Step: Process_Description: Data defining the year of the fire was mined out of each source file and entered in a 'YEAR' filed (that was appended to the source data where necessary). Source_Used_Citation_Abbreviation: various Process_Date: 2004 Source_Produced_Citation_Abbreviation: see fire_sources.xls Process_Contact: Contact_Information: Contact_Person_Primary: Contact_Person: Sean P. Finn Contact_Organization: USGS, Snake River Field Station Contact_Position: Wildlife Biologist (GIS) Contact_Address: Address_Type: mailing and physical address Address: 970 Lusk St City: Boise State_or_Province: ID Postal_Code: 83706 Country: USA Contact_Voice_Telephone: 208-426-2697 Contact_Facsimile_Telephone: 208-426-5210 Contact_Electronic_Mail_Address: sfinn@usgs.gov Hours_of_Service: 8 - 5 Process_Step: Process_Description: Source data sets were merged using the Merge feature of the Geoprocessing Wizard in ArcMap 8.3. Thsi resulted in a final data set containing 106,450 polygons. Source_Used_Citation_Abbreviation: see fire_sources.xls Process_Date: 2004 Process_Contact: Contact_Information: Contact_Person_Primary: Contact_Person: Sean P. Finn Contact_Organization: USGS, Snake River Field Station Contact_Position: Wildlife Biologist (GIS) Contact_Address: Address_Type: mailing and physical address Address: 970 Lusk St City: Boise State_or_Province: ID Postal_Code: 83706 Country: USA Contact_Voice_Telephone: 208-426-2697 Contact_Facsimile_Telephone: 208-426-5210 Contact_Electronic_Mail_Address: sfinn@usgs.gov Hours_of_Service: 8 - 5 Spatial_Data_Organization_Information: Direct_Spatial_Reference_Method: Vector Point_and_Vector_Object_Information: SDTS_Terms_Description: SDTS_Point_and_Vector_Object_Type: G-polygon Point_and_Vector_Object_Count: 106450 Spatial_Reference_Information: Horizontal_Coordinate_System_Definition: Planar: Map_Projection: Map_Projection_Name: Albers Conical Equal Area Albers_Conical_Equal_Area: Standard_Parallel: 38.000000 Standard_Parallel: 41.000000 Longitude_of_Central_Meridian: -114.000000 Latitude_of_Projection_Origin: 34.000000 False_Easting: 0.000000 False_Northing: 0.000000 Planar_Coordinate_Information: Planar_Coordinate_Encoding_Method: coordinate pair Coordinate_Representation: Abscissa_Resolution: 0.008192 Ordinate_Resolution: 0.008192 Planar_Distance_Units: meters Geodetic_Model: Horizontal_Datum_Name: North American Datum of 1927 Ellipsoid_Name: Clarke 1866 Semi-major_Axis: 6378206.400000 Denominator_of_Flattening_Ratio: 294.978698 Entity_and_Attribute_Information: Detailed_Description: Entity_Type: Entity_Type_Label: Fires _WNA_sgca Entity_Type_Definition: Attributes of Fires_Western_NA_sgca Entity_Type_Definition_Source: ESRI Attribute: Attribute_Label: FID Attribute_Definition: Internal feature number. Attribute_Definition_Source: ESRI Attribute_Domain_Values: Unrepresentable_Domain: Sequential unique whole numbers that are automatically generated. Attribute: Attribute_Label: Shape Attribute_Definition: Feature geometry. Attribute_Definition_Source: ESRI Attribute_Domain_Values: Unrepresentable_Domain: Coordinates defining the features. Attribute: Attribute_Label: YEAR Attribute_Definition: Year this polygon burned. Attribute_Definition_Source: ESRI Attribute_Domain_Values: Range_Domain: Range_Domain_Minimum: 1870 Range_Domain_Maximum: 2003 Attribute: Attribute_Label: RECNMBR Attribute_Definition: Unique consecutive number assigned to polygons. Attribute_Definition_Source: ESRI Attribute_Domain_Values: Unrepresentable_Domain: Unique sequential number for each polygon. Attribute: Attribute_Label: SOURCE_FIL Attribute_Definition: File name of the source file. Maybe the name of the .zip file or the shapefile if they differ. Attribute_Definition_Source: assigned Attribute_Domain_Values: Unrepresentable_Domain: File name of the source file. Attribute: Attribute_Label: SOURCE_POL Attribute_Definition: Concatenation of the RECNMBR and SOURCE_FIL fields. Attribute_Definition_Source: assigned Attribute_Domain_Values: Unrepresentable_Domain: Source_Fil + Recnmbr Overview_Description: Entity_and_Attribute_Overview: The attribute besides 'YEAR' of the fire is the 'SOURCE_POL' field wich can be used to cross-reference any polygon in this layer to the original polygon in the source layer. The source layers are all posted on SAGEMAP (http://sagemap.wr.usgs.gov) if they contained reasonable or better metadata or are on file at the USGS Snake River Field Station. See contact information to acquire these data. Entity_and_Attribute_Detail_Citation: n/a Distribution_Information: Distributor: Contact_Information: Contact_Organization_Primary: Contact_Organization: USGS, Snake River Field Station, GIS Laboratory Contact_Position: Geographer Contact_Address: Address_Type: mailing and physical address Address: 970 Lusk St City: Boise State_or_Province: ID Postal_Code: 83706 Country: USA Contact_Voice_Telephone: 208-426-5204 Contact_Facsimile_Telephone: 208-426-5210 Contact_Electronic_Mail_Address: tom_zarriello@usgs.gov Resource_Description: Fires_WNA_sgca.zip Distribution_Liability: We make every effort to provide and maintain accurate, complete, usable, and timely information on our web sites. However, some USGS data and information accessed through these pages may, of necessity, be preliminary in nature and presented prior to final review and approval by the Director of the USGS. These data and information are provided with the understanding that they are not guaranteed to be correct or complete. Users are cautioned to consider carefully the provisional nature of these data and information before using them for decisions that concern personal or public safety or the conduct of business that involves substantial monetary or operational consequences. Conclusions drawn from, or actions undertaken on the basis of, such data and information are the sole responsibility of the user. Standard_Order_Process: Digital_Form: Digital_Transfer_Information: Format_Name: SHP File_Decompression_Technique: WinZip Transfer_Size: 219.425 Digital_Transfer_Option: Online_Option: Computer_Contact_Information: Network_Address: Network_Resource_Name: http://sagemap.wr.usgs.gov/ Online_Computer_and_Operating_System: http://sagemap.wr.usgs.gov/ftp/regional/USGS/Fires_WNA.zip Online_Option: Computer_Contact_Information: Network_Address: Network_Resource_Name: http://prairiemap.wr.usgs.gov Online_Computer_and_Operating_System: http://prairiemap.wr.usgs.gov/regional/USGS/CRPacres_county.zip Fees: none Ordering_Instructions: Go to SAGEMAP (http://sagemap.wr.usgs.gov) or PRAIRIEMAP (http://prairiemap.wr.usgs.gov) and navigate to 'regional' and 'USGS' from the FTP site or search for 'Regional' and 'Fires' from the Data Query and Download page. Metadata_Reference_Information: Metadata_Date: 20041014 Metadata_Contact: Contact_Information: Contact_Person_Primary: Contact_Person: Sean P. Finn Contact_Organization: USGS, Snake River Field Station Contact_Position: Wildlife Biologist (GIS) Contact_Address: Address_Type: mailing and physical address Address: 970 Lusk St. City: Boise State_or_Province: ID Postal_Code: 83706 Country: USA Contact_Voice_Telephone: 208-426-2697 Contact_Facsimile_Telephone: 208-426-5210 Contact_Electronic_Mail_Address: sfinn@usgs.gov Hours_of_Service: 8 - 5 Metadata_Standard_Name: FGDC Content Standards for Digital Geospatial Metadata Metadata_Standard_Version: FGDC-STD-001-1998 Metadata_Time_Convention: local time Metadata_Access_Constraints: none Metadata_Use_Constraints: none Metadata_Security_Information: Metadata_Security_Classification_System: none Metadata_Security_Classification: none Metadata_Security_Handling_Description: none Metadata_Extensions: Online_Linkage: http://www.esri.com/metadata/esriprof80.html Profile_Name: ESRI Metadata Profile Metadata_Extensions: Online_Linkage: http://www.esri.com/metadata/esriprof80.html Profile_Name: ESRI Metadata Profile