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Gas field infrastructure elements contributing to land disturbance located in four gas fields (Continental Divide – Creston – Blue Gap (CCB), Jonah, Moxa Arch, and Pinedale Anticline Project Area) in southwestern Wyoming were collected as polygon features in ArcGIS. Classes included four types of roads, well pads (active and abandoned), residual disturbance associated with the well pads, buried utilities, disturbances associated with non-well pad industry facilities, and areas of general disturbance associated with the installation and operation of gas wells not fitting one of the other disturbance class definitions.
Categories: Data;
Types: Citation,
Downloadable,
Map Service,
OGC WFS Layer,
OGC WMS Layer,
Shapefile;
Tags: United States,
Wyoming,
disturbance,
energy resources,
gas field infrastructure, All tags...
natural gas resources,
oil resources,
pygmy rabbit,
sagebrush,
southwestern Wyoming, Fewer tags
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Pygmy rabbits (Brachylagus idahoensis) are a Species of Greatest Conservation Need in Wyoming. They are designated as such because they are sagebrush obligates and entrained in the health and intactness of sagebrush steppe landscapes. Southwest Wyoming, where pygmy rabbits occur, has become an epicenter of domestic oil and gas exploration and this activity contributes to loss and fragmentation of sagebrush habitats. This tabular file that was used for analysis contains the following data/information: survey site, plot, and gas field; pygmy rabbit occupancy status; UTM coordinates associated with occupancy (dithered to protect pygmy rabbits from further disturbance); an index value indicating amount of fresh pygmy...
Tags: NCCWSC,
USGS Science Data Catalog (SDC),
United States,
Wyoming,
disturbance, All tags...
energy resources,
gas field infrastructure,
natural gas resources,
oil resources,
pygmy rabbit,
sagebrush,
southwestern Wyoming, Fewer tags
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Pygmy rabbits (Brachylagus idahoensis) are a Species of Greatest Conservation Need in Wyoming. They are designated as such because they are sagebrush obligates and entrained in the health and intactness of sagebrush steppe landscapes. Southwest Wyoming, where pygmy rabbits occur, has become an epicenter of domestic oil and gas exploration and this activity contributes to loss and fragmentation of sagebrush habitats. This tabular file that was used for analysis contains the following data/information: survey site, plot, and gas field; pygmy rabbit occupancy status; UTM coordinates associated with occupancy (dithered to protect pygmy rabbits from further disturbance); an index value indicating amount of fresh pygmy...
Categories: Data;
Tags: United States,
Wyoming,
disturbance,
energy resources,
gas field infrastructure, All tags...
natural gas resources,
oil resources,
pygmy rabbit,
sagebrush,
southwestern Wyoming, Fewer tags
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Pygmy rabbits are a Wyoming SGCN, and information about how they respond to landscape-scale habitat fragmentation and ongoing energy development is incomplete. Pygmy rabbits are distributed in a patchy manner across the landscape, with small “colonies” of rabbits inhabiting irregularly distributed patches of tall, dense sagebrush. Movements among suitable sagebrush patches are necessary for successful breeding, dispersal, and maintenance of genetic diversity. Threats to pygmy rabbit populations include loss or degradation of suitable habitat patches and habitat fragmentation in the form of barriers to movements between patches. Providing scientific information to help address these threats is at the core of USGS...
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