Description: Alaska Wildland Fire Jurisdictions is a spatial dataset produced by the Bureau of Land Management-Division of Support Services and the Alaska Fire Service. It provides land ownership information for initial fire management decisions. Alaska Computer-aided dispatch (CAD) systems use the dataset to determine the default ownership and jurisdiction for a location. This feature class merges land ownership/management feature classes from contributing entities (publicly available borough, municipality, state, federal, and other entity management and ownership GIS data) into a single feature class. Overlapping input feature classes are prioritized and lower priority features are replaced by higher priority features. It contains tracts that represent the owner with the majority of surface rights. Subsurface ownership is not represented. For the most part, when a land owner possesses the majority of surface rights, that landowner has fee simple rights to the land. Alaska Wildland Fire Jurisdictions is not an authoritative source for land status information and does not necessarily show the most recent changes in jurisdiction.
Copyright Text: Alaska Wildland Fire Coordinating Group (AWFCG), State of Alaska Department of Natural Resources, Division of Forestry and Fire Protection (DOFFP), US Department of Agriculture, Forest Service (USFS), U.S. Department of the Interior, Bureau of Land Management, Alaska Fire Service (AFS).