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Canada Lynx Habitat and Linkage Zones for Forest Service lands of the Northern Rockies Lynx Amendment Area

Dates

Start Date
2000
End Date
2005

Summary

In the Canada Lynx Conservation Agreements signed by the U.S. Forest Service and the Bureau of Land Management with the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service in February and August of 2000, respectively, the agencies agreed to identify lynx linkage areas. Lynx linkage areas are intended to maintain connectivity and allow for movement of animals between blocks of habitat that are otherwise separated by intervening non-habitat areas such as basins, valleys and agricultural lands, or where habitat naturally narrows due to topographic features. Interagency/intergovernmental meetings were held in the states of Idaho, Montana, Utah, Wyoming, and Colorado during 2001 and 2002 to identify and recommend the general locations of lynx linkage areas. [...]

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Purpose

The purpose of this spatial data is to show the location of ynx habitat as defined by Lynx Conservation Assessment and Strategy (LCAS) for use in the Northern Rockies Lynx Amendment Environmental Analysis.

Rights

The USDA Forest Service manages resource information and derived data as a service to USDA Forest Service users of digital geographic data. The USDA Forest Service is in no way condoning or endorsing the application of these data for any given purpose. It is the sole responsibility of the user to determine whether or not the data are suitable for the intended purpose. It is also the obligation of the user to apply those data in an appropriate and conscientious manner. The USDA Forest Service provides no warranty, nor accepts any liability occurring from any incorrect, incomplete, or misleading data, or from any incorrect, incomplete, or misleading use of these data.
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Communities

  • Great Northern Landscape Conservation Cooperative
  • LC MAP - Landscape Conservation Management and Analysis Portal

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