Sagebrush Conservation Design (SCD) applications are limited by the capacity of land managers to integrate maps of rangeland condition and threats into planning processes for their management area. To increase the integration of spatial data and help managers and planners step down the SCD to local-scale conservation planning, we developed a web application that provides a user-friendly interface.
The layers published here include levels of threats (annual grass cover, tree cover, human modification index) and desired habitat variables (perennial grass cover, sagebrush cover). Percent cover of sagebrush, perennial grass, invasive annual grass, and trees, and the human modification index were originally obtained from the Rangeland Analysis Platform (RAP V2, Allred et al., 2021); the USGS Rangeland Condition, Monitoring, Assessment, and Projection (RCMAP, Rigge et al., 2021); and Theobald et al. (2020). We used the tree cover layer as a proxy for conifer cover, as in Doherty et al., (2022), and refer to changes in tree cover over time in areas that were previously defined as sagebrush rangelands as trends in conifer expansion. Raster layers were smoothed within a 560-m radius and resampled to 90m^2 resolution. Then, continuous raster layers were reclassified to describe levels of desired habitat variables, individual threats, and the total number of unique threats.