[Talk-us] Trouble with getting Superior National Forest

[Bradley White]

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>  If you drive into a checkerboard
> area of private/public land, there are no Forest Service signs at the
> limits of private land.
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In my neck of the woods, USFS owned land is signed fairly frequently with
small yellow property markers at the boundaries.

Privately owned land within a NF declared boundary is not under any
protection by the USFS, therefore tagging the administrative boundary as
'protected_area' will lead to inaccuracies. The land areas that are
actually protected from development/have active resource management are
only the lands which the federal government owns within these
administrative boundaries.

I think using the administrative boundaries is a good & practical first
approximation, but the goal should eventually to be to change over to the
actual land owned by the Fed and operated for conservation by the USFS.

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