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Ecological Subregions: Provinces, Sections, and Subsections of the Conterminous United States
First Approximation
Regions
The 2007 Section and Subsection map and associated data issued by the USDA Forest Service Washington Office-Ecosystem Management Coordination staff are our official inventory of ecological units at the subregional scale and refine our inventory at the regional scale. Polygon descriptions are presented for the delineated 190 section ecological units. Brief descriptions of the section map units provide an abstract primarily of the climate, physiography, and geologic substrate that combine to form ecosystems with distinctive vegetation and other unique ecological characteristics.

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  • Ecological Subregions: Sections and Subsections of the Conterminous US
  • Delineation, Peer Review, and Refinement of Subregions of the Cont US
  • Ecological Subregions: Sections and Subsections of the Conterminous US
  • Ecological Subregions Attributes
  • Ecological Subregions Coverage
  • Ecological Subregions Presentation
  • Entire Dataset