U.S. Fish & Wildlife ServiceDefinition This indicator identifies forest condition regarding the availability and risk of mortality of forested stands within the Midwest Landscape. It prioritizes areas based on locations of forested stands and risks from major forest insects and diseases. Pixels can take the following values: 1 - Pixels at hazard for mortality losses exceeding 25% of their 2012 basal area over the 2013-2027 time frame. 2 - Pixels considered at risk in the NIDRM_2012 assessment, but that are likely no longer at risk. 3 - Treed areas, but not modeled as "At Risk." Selection This indicator was chosen as a targetable, important feature of the MLI goals that will be used to track conditions over time and prioritize areas for conservation. Indicators were defined through elicitation and prioritization exercises with federal and state participants. Criteria for the indicators includes 1) actionable, 2) measurable, 3) relevant to multiple groups across the region, and/or 4) representative of other social and/or environmental values. Input Data & Mapping Steps This indicator originates from the U.S. Forest Service National Insect and Disease Risk Map and the National Land Cover Database (NLCD). To create this layer, MLI partners, members, and staff completed the following mapping steps: projected all input data to NAD83 (2011) UTM Zone 15N, resampled the Forest layer to a 30m raster, and reclassed the raster into the following 3 classes: 1 - Pixels at hazard for mortality losses exceeding 25% of their 2012 basal area over the 2013-2027 time frame, 2 - Pixels considered at risk in the NIDRM_2012 assessment, but that are likely no longer at risk, 3 - Treed areas, but not modeled as "At Risk". Due to the low resolution of the Forest data, many non-forest pixels are incorrectly classified as treed stands. To correct the issue, pixels classified by NLCD as non-forest were removed from the Forest data. Finally, we removed highly altered areas from this layer using our Highly Altered Areas mask. For full mapping details, please refer to the Midwest Conservation Blueprint Development Process . For a complete download of all Blueprint input and output data, visit the Midwest Conservation Blueprint 2026 Data Download.ArcGIS ImageMapLayerhttps://hub.arcgis.com/datasets/86bd553f4a3d421087e63e5d4ff8358cengU.S. Fish and Wildlife Service Open DataPublicForests (Midwest Conservation Blueprint 2026 Indicator) [United States]Web servicesUnited States2026