BLM Colorado Visual Resource Inventory Visual Distance Zone Polygons

Visual resource inventory visual distance zones are landscapes that are subdivided into three distance zones based on relative visibility from travel routes or observation points. The three zones are foreground-middleground (fm), background (bg), and seldom seen (ss). Foreground-middleground zone includes areas seen from highways, rivers or other viewing locations which are less than 3 to 5 miles away. Seen areas beyond the foreground-middleground (fm) zone but usually less than 15 miles away are in the background (bg) zone. Areas not seen as fm, or bg are in the seldom-seen zone. These data represent the polygon features used to define the vdz.

Data and Resources

Field Value
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license http://www.usa.gov/publicdomain/label/1.0/
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modified 2021-11-24T07:00:00Z
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publisher Bureau of Land Management
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Groups
  • AmeriGEOSS
  • National Provider
  • North America
Tags
  • amerigeo
  • amerigeoss
  • background
  • bureau-of-land-management
  • ckan
  • colorado
  • environment
  • foreground-middleground
  • geo
  • geospatial
  • geoss
  • management
  • national
  • north-america
  • seldom-seen
  • united-states
  • visual-distance-zone
  • visual-distance-zones
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maintainer Bureau of Land Management Colorado State Office - Dave Taylor
maintainer_email blm_co_info@blm.gov
metadata_created 2025-11-22T13:44:47.601964
metadata_modified 2025-11-22T13:44:47.601968
notes Visual resource inventory visual distance zones are landscapes that are subdivided into three distance zones based on relative visibility from travel routes or observation points. The three zones are foreground-middleground (fm), background (bg), and seldom seen (ss). Foreground-middleground zone includes areas seen from highways, rivers or other viewing locations which are less than 3 to 5 miles away. Seen areas beyond the foreground-middleground (fm) zone but usually less than 15 miles away are in the background (bg) zone. Areas not seen as fm, or bg are in the seldom-seen zone. These data represent the polygon features used to define the vdz.
num_resources 1
num_tags 18
title BLM Colorado Visual Resource Inventory Visual Distance Zone Polygons