> > If you drive into a checkerboard > area of private/public land, there are no Forest Service signs at the > limits of private land. >
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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