Wilderness Study Areas Data Standard Version 5.0

This information bulletin announces the availability of and describes the recent updates to the Wilderness Study Areas (WSA) Data Standard Version 5.

This data set represents WSA boundaries as inventoried in the mid-1980's and defined in the October 1991 "Wilderness Study Report." Wilderness Study Areas are essentially road-less areas meeting specific Wilderness Act criteria that are under BLM jurisdiction. Wilderness Study Areas have special management restrictions and priorities, as applied by Section 603 of the Federal Land Policy and Management Act [FLPMA and BLM’s WSA Management Manual (6330)]. WSA are a one-time designation and new WSA are no longer allowed and additions to a WSA are rare occurrence.

The following changes were applied:

• Reformatted document to meet Section 508 standards and match the latest data standard template.
• Updated title page photo with photo credit.
• Updated FOIA category, records retention schedule text, and keywords.
• Updated architecture diagrams.
• Added field aliases, edit tracking fields, and default values for required fields.
• Modified GIS_ACRES to show it is auto calculated on data entry.
• Updated publication views and editing procedures.
• Updated domains. Modified WSA Name and Number domains.

Any questions about this data standard can be directed to Lauren Pidot, State Data Steward for WLD at 503-808-6297; Erin Frostad, Technical Lead at 503-808-6524; Eric Hiebenthal, State Data Administrator at 503-808-6565; or Dana Baker-Allum, Geospatial Data Designer at 503-808-6320.