U.S. Fish & Wildlife ServiceThe MAPLand Act requires agencies to define a GIS transfer spatial data layer depicting access easements to federal land. The MAPLand Act Easement Areas layer depicts areas that represents federal interests in non-federal land, also known as easements, that may be used to provide public recreational access that are granted to, or reserved and managed by the following agencies: BLM, NPS, FWS, USBR, USACE and FS. The intent of a public access easement is to allow for ingress and egress for the general public to utilize or travel through a piece of property to access federal interests on non-federal land or to allow for the public to travel through non-federal land to reach adjacent public land.ArcGIS FeatureLayerhttps://hub.arcgis.com/datasets/43a7247d205247e1939c51cad355bc52_0engU.S. Fish and Wildlife Service Open DataPublicFWS MAPLand Access Easement [United States]Web servicesUnited StatesLast Modified: 2026-04-01