Description: The data was derived from the Bureau of Forestry’s fragmentation analysis in the April 2014 Shale Gas Monitoring Report using the University of Connecticut’s Landscape Fragmentation Tool (LTF) v 2.0 and the Bureau of Forestry’s data. The results categorize state forest land into: 1) small core patches less than 100 hectares, 2) Medium core patches with an area between 100 and 200 hectares, 3) Large core patches greater than 200 hectares, 4) Non-forested area, 5) Forest Edge, 6) Perforated forest, and 7) Patch forest. The default 100 meters was used to define forest edge. The fragmentation model considers all changes and is not limited to just shale gas activities (non-shale gas related changes do affect the results of this analysis too).
Copyright Text: PA DCNR, Bureau of Forestry, University of Connecticut "Landscape Fragmentation Tool" v 2.0
Description: The data was derived from the Bureau of Forestry’s fragmentation analysis in the April 2014 Shale Gas Monitoring Report using the University of Connecticut’s Landscape Fragmentation Tool (LTF) v 2.0 and the Bureau of Forestry’s data. The results categorize state forest land into: 1) small core patches less than 100 hectares, 2) Medium core patches with an area between 100 and 200 hectares, 3) Large core patches greater than 200 hectares, 4) Non-forested area, 5) Forest Edge, 6) Perforated forest, and 7) Patch forest. The default 100 meters was used to define forest edge. The fragmentation model considers all changes and is not limited to just shale gas activities (non-shale gas related changes do affect the results of this analysis too).
Copyright Text: PA DCNR, Bureau of Forestry, University of Connecticut "Landscape Fragmentation Tool" v 2.0
Description: This dataset is intended to represent areas where vegetation would be removed or altered due to shale gas development. This area tends to be equal to or less than DEP permitted Limits of Disturbance (LOD). The permitted LOD can include erosion & sedimentation measures that do not impact surface vegetation (such as silt sock). LOC typically include the area where gas infrastructure is developed such as roads, pads and pipelines and the additional workspace cleared for the project. Shale gas related development projects tend to be adjacent to each other and could possibly be attributed to several types of development (pads, roads, pipelines). The individual features have been arbitrarily assigned to a single type of development to avoid counting the same areas several times. Portions of the LOC may be reclaimed or allowed to revert back to natural vegetation within the near future, and is therefore not necessarily an accurate measure of vegetated areas permanently converted to non-vegetation. This data is an estimate of the area that was cleared for a shale gas related project. There may be inaccuracies in the vector or attribute data. This data is intended for demonstration, monitoring, planning, educational, and research purposes only.Project Type Code Values: 1=Gas Well, 2=Road ROW, 3=Pipeline, 4=Compressor, 5=Freshwater Impoundment, 6=Water Withdraw, 7=Storage, 8=Stone Pit/Quarry, 9=Meter/Valve/Tap, 10=Monitoring, 11=Oil Well, 12=Oil and Gas Well
Copyright Text: PA DCNR, Bureau of Forestry. Please see the "Source" attribute for the source of each individual feature.
Description: This feature class represents any pads related to gas development and is not limited to natural gas wellhead pads only. The Bureau of Forestry considers any hardened non-linear surface related to shale gas development to be a pad for monitoring purposes. This feature class contains the best available data as of 12/31/2012. Pad Type Code Values: 1=Gas Well, 2=Road ROW, 3=Pipeline, 4=Compressor, 5=Freshwater Impoundment, 6=Water Withdraw, 7=Storage, 8=Stone Pit/Quarry, 9=Meter/Valve/Tap, 10=Monitoring, 11=Oil Well, 12=Oil and Gas Well
Copyright Text: PA DCNR, Bureau of Forestry. Please see the "source" field for information on the source of individual features.
Description: This dataset represents pipelines where construction has been started or completed before December 31, 2012 and permitted through a DCNR natural gas lease or developed on state forest lands where DCNR does not own the mineral rights.Pipeline Type Code Values: 1=Gathering, 2=Marketing, 3=Water, 4=Other or Unknown, 5=Meter/Valve/Tap, 6=Trunk
Copyright Text: PA DCNR, Bureau of Forestry. Please see the "source" field for source information pertaining to specific features.
Description: This data represents primarily State Forest managed roads impacted by shale gas development as of 12/31/2012. This data was based on the best available information at the time and may contain errors or omissions.
Copyright Text: PA DCNR, Bureau of Forestry. Data for individual features may come from several different sources.
Description: Representation of mineral rights, leased tracts, etc. on lands managed by the Bureau of Forestry as of December 31, 2012. Updates to this dataset are ongoing and this data is not intended to be a legal representation of ownership. This data may contain inaccuracies or incomplete information. This dataset includes ownership information where a "tract" number has been assigned by the Bureau of Forestry (leased tracts and severed rights lands where the ownership of said rights has been verified). This dataset was created from several different datasets of unknown lineage. The boundaries do not exactly match the Bureau of Forestry’s state forest boundary data. It is an estimate of the boundaries only and is not intended to be a legal description or depiction of boundaries. This data may contain inaccuracies or incomplete information.Ownership Type Code Values: 1=Leased Tract, 5=All Oil and Gas - No Lease, 6=Other or Unknown, 2=Severed Right, 3=Leased Storage, 7=Fee Simple - Not Leased
Ownership_Type
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type: esriFieldTypeSmallInteger, alias: Ownership Type
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Coded Values:
[1: Leased Tract]
,
[5: All Oil and Gas- No Lease]
,
[6: Other or Unknown]
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)
Description: The Bureau of Forestry uses a modified version of the Recreational Opportunity Spectrum (ROS) to estimate the wild character of state forest land and the experience that recreationists can be expected to find in different portions of state forest system. This dataset represents the excepted ROS experience prior to Shale-Gas development (pre-2008). The Bureau of Forestry’s ROS zones are defined as: Primitive: greater than 1,000 acres and more than 1 mile from motorized roads, trails, and railroads. Semi-Primitive: greater than 500 acres and more than 1/2 mile from motorized roads, trails, and railroads.Semi-Primitive Non-motorized: greater than 250 acres and more than 1/4 mile from motorized roads, trails, and railroads.Semi-Developed and Developed (Other Zones): No minimum size or remoteness criteria. The ROS model considers all changes. Non-shale gas related changes do affect the results of the analysis.
Copyright Text: PA DCNR, Bureau of Forestry, USDA Forest Service (original developer of ROS)
Description: The Bureau of Forestry uses a modified version of the Recreational Opportunity Spectrum (ROS) to estimate the wild character of state forest land and the experience that recreationists can be expected to find in different portions of state forest system. This dataset represents the excepted ROS experience as of December 31, 2012. The Bureau of Forestry’s ROS zones are defined as: Primitive: greater than 1,000 acres and more than 1 mile from motorized roads, trails, and railroads. Semi-Primitive: greater than 500 acres and more than 1/2 mile from motorized roads, trails, and railroads.Semi-Primitive Non-motorized: greater than 250 acres and more than 1/4 mile from motorized roads, trails, and railroads.Semi-Developed and Developed (Other Zones): No minimum size or remoteness criteria. The ROS model considers all changes. Non-shale gas related changes do affect the results of the analysis.
Copyright Text: PA DCNR, Bureau of Forestry, USDA Forest Service (original developer of ROS)