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This report summarizes the methods and results of utilizing the Edwards to Gulf Conservation Blueprint to achieve specific tasks for various conservation entities. The goal of this effort is to provide real world examples of the use of our spatial products to ensure that stakeholders understand how to use and incorporate the blueprint into their own decision-making processes. This report covers a suite of demonstration projects that illustrate a variety of tasks likely to be of interest to the broader stakeholder community. These include using the habitat protection rankings to prioritize areas within a predefined focal area within the Edwards to Gulf region (Figure 1), mapping a route of least impact for a proposed...
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Monarch butterfly habitat—including milkweed host plants and nectar food sources—has declined drastically throughout most of the United States. Observed overwinter population levels have also exhibited a long-term downward trend that suggests a strong relationship between habitat loss and monarch population declines. To try and reverse this trend, there has been a call to action to engage in monarch conservation across all landscapes within the migratory pathway—and urban areas could play a critical role, but how?The Field Museum, in partnership with the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, have spent the last year working on an Urban Monarch landscape conservation design (LCD), or a “Monarch’s view of the city”, project...
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This dataset features suitable habitat connected to the main channel (based on floodplain inundation) within managed areas at discharges from 15,000 cfs to 100,000 cfs. The spatial extent for floodplain inundation modeling in the lower Trinity River was from Romayor, Texas, to approximately Moss Bluff, Texas. River sections were modeled using steady flow conditions. For the upper section, discharge and stage were both available for the two gages (Romayor USGS 08066500 and Liberty USGS 08067000). For the lower section, the Moss Bluff gage (USGS 08067100) is tidally-influenced, so gage height didn’t correspond to upstream changes in discharge. Depth rasters were exported from HEC-RAS 5.0.0. Since the lower section...
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The emerging multi-LCC Ecological Places in Cities Network integrates the ecological and urban communities to guide and promote conservation practices, such as those across the monarch flyway. The ETPBR LCC is working with a number of other Service programs and external partners to build capacity for the development and implementation of a framework that can be tailored to individual cities of various sizes to evaluate their unique situations and design an urban monarch conservation strategy that optimizes the potential contributions of their urban area. Specifically, this project will continue to lay the groundwork for design principles to guide the development, testing and deployment of future urban conservation...
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We will work with Landscape Conservation Cooperative partners to (1) edge match the Oklahoma and Texas Ecological Systems (ECS) data sets, (2) complete an enduring features (ecological site type; geophysical setting) data set for Oklahoma, (3) create a process for up-dating the ECS data set by detecting land cover change and modeling the revised ECS types, and (4) collect field data to characterize grassland composition in the Texas panhandle and adjacent Oklahoma. MoRAP staff will complete the first three tasks by leveraging knowledge, skills, and data on-hand from earlier work on the statewide ECS data sets. Staff from Texas Parks and Wildlife Department (TPWD) and Oklahoma Department of Wildlife Conservation...
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Flow alteration – from new and existing water supply projects, increased urbanization, and drought conditions – is a pervasive threat to aquatic wildlife throughout the Gulf Coast Prairie region. One species susceptible to this threat is Guadalupe Bass, an economically and ecologically important black bass species endemic to Texas. The area encompassing their range is projected to experience some of the highest population growth in Texas, placing increased demands on the aquifers and watersheds of this region. A previous GCP LCC Instream Flow project conducted by the Southeast Aquatic Resources Partnership (SARP) produced hypotheses about instream flow requirements of native aquatic species that need to be tested....
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The Red River Stakeholder Engagement project’s primary objective was to uncover areas of concern for stakeholders who live, work, and play along the Red River Basin. It examined the complexity of the cultural-geographic landscape across the Red River Basin. By focusing on both the geographic and the cultural, we gain a better understanding of how individuals, communities, and organizations interact with the basin and with one another, how they arecurrently experiencing changes, and what they perceive a changing climate means for them.This cultural-geographic approach recognizes that stakeholders’ concerns, priorities, and actions likely vary across space-and also vary in their cultural significance. For example,...
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Sampling Grassland habitats in Urban, Suburban and Rural areas of Central Texas using a modified GMIT protocol and Data Recorder Protocol provided a baseline of operations and tested various techniques and equipment prior to large-scale implementation. This 6-month effort combined the Urban Monarch project with testing field data collections techniques with those used by several partners (TPWD protocol) interested in determining best practices, tools, and methodologies for evaluating and monitoring habitat for monarchs, other pollinators, and grassland birds. Tablet data recorders were far superior to other recorders tested, and were also superior to cell phone applications. Several milkweed planted areas were established,...
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Our focal species [FS] process and the surrogate species [SS] process as described in the guidance and workshops are similar in some respects and substantially different in others; particularly, the explicit objectives and process of the SS approach are significantly different that the current FS approach, although some of the products may happen to overlap because of some shared values and criteria.Not all FS selected by the GCP LCC Science Team may need to be commensurable with the SS expectations; some species may better fit the needs of other partners that may differ from the goals and approach of the SS process and of USFWS. Also, it is the understanding of many that draft SS guidance and workshop materials...
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The Western Gulf Coast (WGC) provides valuable habitat for migratory and resident waterfowl. The mottled duck (Anas fulvigula), a resident species, is highly associated with coastal marsh habitats and relies on these areas for all of its life cycle needs. Habitat loss and degradation due to urban expansion and other human activities have raised concerns for the WGC mottled duck population. Although other threats such as sport harvest (Raftovich 2011), lead poisoning (Sanderson and Bellrose 1986), hybridization (McCracken et al. 2001), and predation (Stutzenbaker 1988, Moorman and Gray 1994, Durham and Afton 2003) may be additional factors in the overall decline of the population, the disappearance of suitable nesting...
A bare earth Digital Elevation Model (DEM) created from 2013 LiDAR LAS files for Wilson and Karnes counties in Texas. LiDAR data collection was funded by the Texas Water Development Board. LiDAR LAS files were acquired from Texas Natural Resources Information System (TNRIS). The DEM is a dataset that depicts the topography of the bare earth surface (i.e. surface minus vegetation, buildings, powerlines, etc). This dataset was developled to be used in conjunction with the DSM to create a vegetation height surface (nDSM). The LAS point cloud was filtered to ground points only and the mean z value was calculated. A Digital Surface Model (DSM) created from 2013 LiDAR LAS files for Wilson and Karnes counties in Texas....
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Climate, sea level rise, and urbanization are undergoing unprecedented levels of combined change and are expected to have large effects on natural resources — particularly along the Gulf of Mexico coastline (Gulf Coast). Management decisions to address these effects (i.e., adaptation) require an understanding of the relative vulnerability of various resources to these stressors. To meet this need, the four Landscape Conservation Cooperatives along the Gulf partnered with the Gulf of Mexico Alliance to conduct this Gulf Coast Vulnerability Assessment (GCVA). Vulnerability in this context incorporates the aspects of exposure and sensitivity to threats, coupled with the adaptive capacity to mitigate those threats....
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The Gulf Coast Prairie Landscape Conservation Cooperative needs seamless landcover data for the south-central United States. This information is essential for developing computer modeling tools related to the conservation of many terrestrial species and determining the quality of vegetation to assess current and desired conditions.
map background search result map search result map Final Report: Decision Support Tool: Prioritization of Mottled Duck (Anas fulvigula) Habitat for Conservation and Management in the Western Gulf Coast Data for Gulf Hypoxia Blueprint Basemaps for Gulf Hypoxia Blueprint Guadalupe Bass flow-ecology relationships; with emphasis on the impact of flow on recruitment Oklahoma Ruderal Woody Vegetation Urban Monarch Conservation Workshop November 9-10, 2016 Connecting Advanced Land Cover for Improved Biological Planning and Conservation Design Proposed and Final Critical Habitat Designations Southeast Conservation Adaptation Strategy (SECAS) Presentations - 2016 Southeast Conservation Adaptation Strategy (SECAS) Letters from Ed Carter Southeast Conservation Adaptation Strategy (SECAS) Briefing Documents Oklahoma Ecological Systems Mapping - Phase 1 Interpretive Booklet Final Report: Gulf Coast Vulnerability Assessment Executive Summary and Final Report Final Report: Red River Stakeholder Discovery Monarch View of the City: The Next Iteration Final Report - Develop Priority, Focal and Surrogate Species Lists Report Final Report: Developing Regional Partnerships for the Gulf Coast Prairie Landscape Conservation Cooperative - Urban Monarch Technicians Wilson & Karnes Counties in Texas - Digital Elevation Models (DEM) and Digital Surface Models (DSM) River stage-specific GIS data layers depicting suitable connected habitat for Alligator Gar spawning within managed areas in the lower Trinity River of Texas Final Report: Edwards to Gulf Landscape Conservation Design Pilot Project - Outreach and Demonstration Report River stage-specific GIS data layers depicting suitable connected habitat for Alligator Gar spawning within managed areas in the lower Trinity River of Texas Wilson & Karnes Counties in Texas - Digital Elevation Models (DEM) and Digital Surface Models (DSM) Final Report: Developing Regional Partnerships for the Gulf Coast Prairie Landscape Conservation Cooperative - Urban Monarch Technicians Guadalupe Bass flow-ecology relationships; with emphasis on the impact of flow on recruitment Final Report: Edwards to Gulf Landscape Conservation Design Pilot Project - Outreach and Demonstration Report Oklahoma Ruderal Woody Vegetation Oklahoma Ecological Systems Mapping - Phase 1 Interpretive Booklet Connecting Advanced Land Cover for Improved Biological Planning and Conservation Design Final Report: Decision Support Tool: Prioritization of Mottled Duck (Anas fulvigula) Habitat for Conservation and Management in the Western Gulf Coast Final Report: Red River Stakeholder Discovery Proposed and Final Critical Habitat Designations Final Report: Gulf Coast Vulnerability Assessment Executive Summary and Final Report Urban Monarch Conservation Workshop November 9-10, 2016 Monarch View of the City: The Next Iteration Final Report - Develop Priority, Focal and Surrogate Species Lists Report Southeast Conservation Adaptation Strategy (SECAS) Presentations - 2016 Southeast Conservation Adaptation Strategy (SECAS) Letters from Ed Carter Southeast Conservation Adaptation Strategy (SECAS) Briefing Documents Data for Gulf Hypoxia Blueprint Basemaps for Gulf Hypoxia Blueprint