Every year in March, the U.S. Forest Service provides an opportunity for states to submit new Priority Lands datasets. The layer is used inside SMART to calculate the % of a state’s priority area that falls within a management plan. This year, several states requested that we keep the window open to allow states more time as they work on their Forest Action Plans. The U.S. Forest Service and ForMAP developers will be keeping the window open until June 14th, 2019.

Please contact us here at the Help Desk if you need to submit a new dataset this year.