Bryan Costanza

iOS Developer && Creative Technologist && Designer

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In a previous post, I was puzzled about why I could not find more regional maps showing where the various MVUM maps were located. If “R5” was (for some reason) the Pacific Southwest, I figured there was a good chance that at least R1-R4 existed too, so I started digging around. An internet search for “R5 MVUM” took me to the full page R5 map that I added to the previous post. I then clicked on “Maps & Publications” to get to https://www.fs.usda.gov/main/r5/maps-pubs. One link there got me to another full-page map for R4, and this had a URL clearly showing the region (https://www.fs.fed.us/mapfinder/?r=04).

The loading performance of these maps in Safari is incredibly bad and doesn’t always complete, but They have the right idea. In Chrome, they seem to be loading reliably.

USFS Regions Map

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