Fact Sheets
A series of fact sheets was developed from the research findings to provide information that can assist land-use planning, decision making, and management around El Yunque National Forest.
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Land Cover within and around El Yunque National Forest
- This fact sheet summarizes land cover data at three geographic scales in which land use planning and decision making take place around El Yunque: municipal (county), regional, and proclamation area. read more...
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Expansion of Urban Land Cover around El Yunque National Forest
- This fact sheet presents trends in urban expansion from 1998 to 2010 in the eight municipalities that have a portion of El Yunque National Forest (El Yunque) lands within their boundaries. This information can help forest managers, municipal and land use planners, and policymakers with urban land-use planning and decision making around El Yunque. read more...
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Urbanization Trends and Zoning around El Yunque National Forest
- This fact sheet provides information about where urban expansion occurred between 1998 and 2010 in the areas around El Yunque that were included in the zoning regulation of 1983, and it presents a comparison with previous data from 1985 to 1995. It also provides information about where urbanization occurred in each zoning district at the municipal level for the 1998–2010 period. The information offered in this fact sheet can be helpful to those municipalities that are currently implementing their autonomous land use plans, and to those that will implement them in the near future. This information can also help forest managers, land use planners, and decision makers develop and implement land use plans more effectively. read more...
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Landowner Incentives for Conservation around El Yunque National Forest
- This fact sheet summarizes the findings obtained from interviews conducted with thirty landowners from ten communities within the U.S. Forest Service’s (USFS) priority acquisition areas in El Yunque’s proclamation area, which is the area outside the administrative boundaries of El Yunque where the USFS has the authority to purchase land to expand its area for forest conservation purposes. The information provided in this fact sheet can help forest managers and natural resources specialists to design, promote, and better implement conservation programs around El Yunque, as well as in other state and national forests. read more...
