Hierarchically nested and biologically relevant monitoring frameworks for Greater Sage-grouse, 2019, Cluster Level 7 (Wyoming), Interim

wy_lvl7_coarsescale: Wyoming hierarchical cluster level 7 (coarse-scale) for Greater sage-grouse We developed a hierarchical clustering approach that identifies biologically relevant landscape units that can 1) be used as a long-term population monitoring framework, 2) be repeated across the Greater sage-grouse range, 3) be used to track the outcomes of local and regional populations by comparing population changes across scales, and 4) be used to inform where to best spatially target studies that identify the processes and mechanisms causing population trends to change among spatial scales. The spatial variability in the amount and quality of habitat resources can affect local population success and result in different...

Categories: Data; Types: Downloadable, Map Service, OGC WFS Layer, OGC WMS Layer, Shapefile; Tags: Centrocercus urophasianus, Greater sage-grouse, United States, Wyoming, adaptive management, All tags... biota, boundaries, graph theory, habitat connectivity, hierarchical sampling units, population monitoring, Fewer tags

Trout Unlimited-Coldwater Fisheries Data

Categories: Data; Types: Downloadable, GeoTIFF, Map Service, Raster; Tags: Aquatic Habitat, Energy Development, IA, Landscape-Scale Conservation, SW Wyoming, All tags... Southwest Wyoming, Terrestrial Habitat, USA, United States, WLCI, WLCI Integrated Assessment, Wyoming, Wyoming Landscape Conservation Initiative, Fewer tags

Coal Mines

Categories: Data; Types: Downloadable, GeoTIFF, Map Service, Raster; Tags: Aquatic Habitat, Energy Development, IA, Landscape-Scale Conservation, SW Wyoming, All tags... Southwest Wyoming, Terrestrial Habitat, USA, United States, WLCI, WLCI Integrated Assessment, Wyoming, Wyoming Landscape Conservation Initiative, Fewer tags

Condition Index - Aquatic - Focal Species

Categories: Data; Types: Downloadable, GeoTIFF, Map Service, Raster; Tags: Aquatic Habitat, Energy Development, IA, Landscape-Scale Conservation, SW Wyoming, All tags... Southwest Wyoming, Terrestrial Habitat, USA, United States, WLCI, WLCI Integrated Assessment, Wyoming, Wyoming Landscape Conservation Initiative, Fewer tags

Relative probability of Greater Sage-grouse nest occurrence within central region of Wyoming, USA at the combined landscape-patch scale (Filename: wysg_lp_central_nest_rsf.tif).

Habitat selection studies can make important contributions to habitat prioritization efforts for species of conservation concern. We present a large-scale collaborative effort to develop habitat selection models for Greater Sage-grouse (Centrocercus urophasianus) across large landscapes (Wyoming, USA) and multiple seasons. Greater Sage-grouse are limited to western semi-arid landscapes in North America, range-wide population declines have been documented, and the species is currently listed a “warranted but precluded” from listing under the U.S. Endangered Species Act. Wyoming is predicted to remain a stronghold for Sage-grouse populations and contains approximately 37% of the remaining birds. We developed Resource...

Categories: Data; Types: Downloadable, GeoTIFF, Map Service, Raster; Tags: Centrocercus urophasianus, Greater sage-grouse, United States, WY, Wyoming, All tags... biota, distribution, ecological modeling, environment, functional response, geographic information systems, habitat, logistic regression, persistence, radiotelemetry, range contraction, resource selection function, sage-grouse core regions, sage-grouse late brood-rearing, sage-grouse nesting, sage-grouse seasonal models, sage-grouse winter, Fewer tags

Relative probability of Greater Sage-grouse winter occurrence within central region of Wyoming, USA at the combined landscape-patch scale (Filename: wysg_lp_central_winter_rsf.tif).

Habitat selection studies can make important contributions to habitat prioritization efforts for species of conservation concern. We present a large-scale collaborative effort to develop habitat selection models for Greater Sage-grouse (Centrocercus urophasianus) across large landscapes (Wyoming, USA) and multiple seasons. Greater Sage-grouse are limited to western semi-arid landscapes in North America, range-wide population declines have been documented, and the species is currently listed a “warranted but precluded” from listing under the U.S. Endangered Species Act. Wyoming is predicted to remain a stronghold for Sage-grouse populations and contains approximately 37% of the remaining birds. We developed Resource...

Categories: Data; Types: Downloadable, GeoTIFF, Map Service, Raster; Tags: Centrocercus urophasianus, Greater sage-grouse, United States, WY, Wyoming, All tags... biota, distribution, ecological modeling, environment, functional response, geographic information systems, habitat, logistic regression, persistence, radiotelemetry, range contraction, resource selection function, sage-grouse core regions, sage-grouse late brood-rearing, sage-grouse nesting, sage-grouse seasonal models, sage-grouse winter, Fewer tags

Relative probability of Greater Sage-grouse nest occurrence within northeastern region of Wyoming, USA at the combined landscape-patch scale (Filename: wysg_lp_ne_nest_rsf.tif).

Habitat selection studies can make important contributions to habitat prioritization efforts for species of conservation concern. We present a large-scale collaborative effort to develop habitat selection models for Greater Sage-grouse (Centrocercus urophasianus) across large landscapes (Wyoming, USA) and multiple seasons. Greater Sage-grouse are limited to western semi-arid landscapes in North America, range-wide population declines have been documented, and the species is currently listed a “warranted but precluded” from listing under the U.S. Endangered Species Act. Wyoming is predicted to remain a stronghold for Sage-grouse populations and contains approximately 37% of the remaining birds. We developed Resource...

Categories: Data; Types: Downloadable, GeoTIFF, Map Service, Raster; Tags: Centrocercus urophasianus, Greater sage-grouse, United States, WY, Wyoming, All tags... biota, distribution, ecological modeling, environment, functional response, geographic information systems, habitat, logistic regression, persistence, radiotelemetry, range contraction, resource selection function, sage-grouse core regions, sage-grouse late brood-rearing, sage-grouse nesting, sage-grouse seasonal models, sage-grouse winter, Fewer tags

Relative probability of Greater Sage-grouse summer occurrence within central region of Wyoming, USA at the landscape scale (Filename: wysg_p_central_summer_rsf.tif).

Habitat selection studies can make important contributions to habitat prioritization efforts for species of conservation concern. We present a large-scale collaborative effort to develop habitat selection models for Greater Sage-grouse (Centrocercus urophasianus) across large landscapes (Wyoming, USA) and multiple seasons. Greater Sage-grouse are limited to western semi-arid landscapes in North America, range-wide population declines have been documented, and the species is currently listed a “warranted but precluded” from listing under the U.S. Endangered Species Act. Wyoming is predicted to remain a stronghold for Sage-grouse populations and contains approximately 37% of the remaining birds. We developed Resource...

Categories: Data; Types: Downloadable, GeoTIFF, Map Service, Raster; Tags: Centrocercus urophasianus, Greater sage-grouse, United States, WY, Wyoming, All tags... biota, distribution, ecological modeling, environment, functional response, geographic information systems, habitat, logistic regression, persistence, radiotelemetry, range contraction, resource selection function, sage-grouse core regions, sage-grouse late brood-rearing, sage-grouse nesting, sage-grouse seasonal models, sage-grouse winter, Fewer tags

Binary classification for relative probability of Greater Sage-grouse nest occurrence within northeastern Wyoming, USA at the landscape scale (Filename: wysg_l_ne_nest_bin.tif).

Habitat selection studies can make important contributions to habitat prioritization efforts for species of conservation concern. We present a large-scale collaborative effort to develop habitat selection models for Greater Sage-grouse (Centrocercus urophasianus) across large landscapes (Wyoming, USA) and multiple seasons. Greater Sage-grouse are limited to western semi-arid landscapes in North America, range-wide population declines have been documented, and the species is currently listed a “warranted but precluded” from listing under the U.S. Endangered Species Act. Wyoming is predicted to remain a stronghold for Sage-grouse populations and contains approximately 37% of the remaining birds. We developed Resource...

Categories: Data; Types: Downloadable, GeoTIFF, Map Service, Raster; Tags: Centrocercus urophasianus, Greater sage-grouse, United States, WY, Wyoming, All tags... biota, distribution, ecological modeling, environment, functional response, geographic information systems, habitat, logistic regression, persistence, radiotelemetry, range contraction, resource selection function, sage-grouse core regions, sage-grouse late brood-rearing, sage-grouse nesting, sage-grouse seasonal models, sage-grouse winter, Fewer tags

Binned categories for relative probability of Greater Sage-grouse nest occurrence within southwestern region of Wyoming, USA at the landscape scale (Filename: wysg_l_sw_nest_bin.tif).

Habitat selection studies can make important contributions to habitat prioritization efforts for species of conservation concern. We present a large-scale collaborative effort to develop habitat selection models for Greater Sage-grouse (Centrocercus urophasianus) across large landscapes (Wyoming, USA) and multiple seasons. Greater Sage-grouse are limited to western semi-arid landscapes in North America, range-wide population declines have been documented, and the species is currently listed a “warranted but precluded” from listing under the U.S. Endangered Species Act. Wyoming is predicted to remain a stronghold for Sage-grouse populations and contains approximately 37% of the remaining birds. We developed Resource...

Categories: Data; Types: Downloadable, GeoTIFF, Map Service, Raster; Tags: Centrocercus urophasianus, Greater sage-grouse, United States, WY, Wyoming, All tags... biota, distribution, ecological modeling, environment, functional response, geographic information systems, habitat, logistic regression, persistence, radiotelemetry, range contraction, resource selection function, sage-grouse core regions, sage-grouse late brood-rearing, sage-grouse nesting, sage-grouse seasonal models, sage-grouse winter, Fewer tags

Binary classification for relative probability of Greater Sage-grouse summer occurrence within statewide region of Wyoming, USA at the landscape scale (Filename: wysg_l_state_summer_bool.tif).

Habitat selection studies can make important contributions to habitat prioritization efforts for species of conservation concern. We present a large-scale collaborative effort to develop habitat selection models for Greater Sage-grouse (Centrocercus urophasianus) across large landscapes (Wyoming, USA) and multiple seasons. Greater Sage-grouse are limited to western semi-arid landscapes in North America, range-wide population declines have been documented, and the species is currently listed a “warranted but precluded” from listing under the U.S. Endangered Species Act. Wyoming is predicted to remain a stronghold for Sage-grouse populations and contains approximately 37% of the remaining birds. We developed Resource...

Categories: Data; Types: Downloadable, GeoTIFF, Map Service, Raster; Tags: Centrocercus urophasianus, Greater sage-grouse, United States, WY, Wyoming, All tags... biota, distribution, ecological modeling, environment, functional response, geographic information systems, habitat, logistic regression, persistence, radiotelemetry, range contraction, resource selection function, sage-grouse core regions, sage-grouse late brood-rearing, sage-grouse nesting, sage-grouse seasonal models, sage-grouse winter, Fewer tags

Binned categories for relative probability of Greater Sage-grouse winter occurrence for each respective region (southwest, central, and northeast) of Wyoming, USA at the combined landscape-patch scale (Filename: wysg_lp_regional_winter_bin.tif).

Habitat selection studies can make important contributions to habitat prioritization efforts for species of conservation concern. We present a large-scale collaborative effort to develop habitat selection models for Greater Sage-grouse (Centrocercus urophasianus) across large landscapes (Wyoming, USA) and multiple seasons. Greater Sage-grouse are limited to western semi-arid landscapes in North America, range-wide population declines have been documented, and the species is currently listed a “warranted but precluded” from listing under the U.S. Endangered Species Act. Wyoming is predicted to remain a stronghold for Sage-grouse populations and contains approximately 37% of the remaining birds. We developed Resource...

Categories: Data; Types: Downloadable, GeoTIFF, Map Service, Raster; Tags: Centrocercus urophasianus, Greater sage-grouse, United States, WY, Wyoming, All tags... biota, distribution, ecological modeling, environment, functional response, geographic information systems, habitat, logistic regression, persistence, radiotelemetry, range contraction, resource selection function, sage-grouse core regions, sage-grouse late brood-rearing, sage-grouse nesting, sage-grouse seasonal models, sage-grouse winter, Fewer tags

Official Recognized Boundary of Western Native Trout Initiative, 2013

This shapefile is the official boundary of the Western Native Trout Initiative. The boundary was originally developed by the United States Fish and Wildlife Service and was updated in 2013 to reflect revisions from the Western Native Trout Initiative, a recognized Fish Habitat Partnership (FHP) of the National Fish Habitat Partnership.

Categories: Data; Types: ArcGIS REST Map Service, ArcGIS Service Definition, Downloadable, Map Service; Tags: Alaska, Analytical boundary, Aquatic habitats, Arizona, Boundaries, All tags... California, Colorado, FHP Boundary, FHP Product, Fish habitats, Idaho, Montana, Nevada, New Mexico, Oregon, Spatial Data, Utah, Visual, WNTI, Washington, Wyoming, Fewer tags

Hierarchically nested and biologically relevant monitoring frameworks for Greater Sage-grouse, 2019, Cluster Level 2 (Wyoming), Interim

wy_lvl2_finescale: Wyoming hierarchical cluster level 2 (fine-scale) for Greater sage-grouse We developed a hierarchical clustering approach that identifies biologically relevant landscape units that can 1) be used as a long-term population monitoring framework, 2) be repeated across the Greater sage-grouse range, 3) be used to track the outcomes of local and regional populations by comparing population changes across scales, and 4) be used to inform where to best spatially target studies that identify the processes and mechanisms causing population trends to change among spatial scales. The spatial variability in the amount and quality of habitat resources can affect local population success and result in different...

Categories: Data; Types: Downloadable, Map Service, OGC WFS Layer, OGC WMS Layer, Shapefile; Tags: Centrocercus urophasianus, Greater sage-grouse, United States, Wyoming, adaptive management, All tags... biota, boundaries, graph theory, habitat connectivity, hierarchical sampling units, population monitoring, Fewer tags

Long-term field observation of shrubland ecosystem in Wyoming, USA from 2008-2018

The importance of monitoring shrublands to detect and understand changes through time is increasingly recognized as critical to management. This dataset focuses on ecological change observation over ten years of field observation at 134 plots within two sites that are located in Southwestern of Wyoming, USA from 2008-2018. At sites 1 and 3, 134 long-term field observation plots were measured annually from 2008 to 2018. General plot locations were selected in 2006 using segments and spectral clusters on QuickBird imagery to identify the best locations for representing the variability of the entire site (one QuickBird image). Ground measurements were conducted using ocular measurements with cover was estimated from...

Categories: Data; Tags: Land Use Change, Landsat Path/Row, Landsat time-series, Southwest Wyoming, U.S., All tags... US, USGS Science Data Catalog (SDC), United States, WY, Wyoming, climate change, field observation, fractional components, heat flow (earth), image collections, imageryBaseMapsEarthCover, land use change, long-term monitoring, multispectral imaging, plant community, shrubland, shrubland ecosystem, trends, Fewer tags

Data on prairie dogs, plants, arthropod biomass, and birds for Thunder Basin, Wyoming in 2017

Data were collected in 2017 by researchers at the USGS, USDA-ARS, and University of Wyoming on the food webs of plants, prairie dogs, arthropods, and birds in the Thunder Basin National Grassland. Data were collected from 87 sites in order to parameterize a structural equation model linking prairie dog impacts to changes in vegetation, arthropods, and birds. Abiotic information such as topographic wetness index, terrain roughness, and soil characteristics were estimated at the same set of plots in order to account for abiotic variation across the landscape.

Categories: Data; Tags: Botany, Ecology, Thunder Basin, Thunder Basin, Thunder Basin National Grassland, All tags... USGS Science Data Catalog (SDC), Wildlife Biology, Wyoming, biota, ecosystem engineer, food web analysis, grassland/shrubland transition, prairie dog, structural equation model, Fewer tags

Global Geochemical Database for Critical Minerals in Archived Mine Samples

The Critical Minerals in Archived Mine Samples Database (CMDB) contains chemistry and geologic information for historic ore and ore-related rock samples from mineral deposits in the United States. In addition, the database contains samples from archetypal deposits from 27 other countries in North America, South America, Asia, Africa and Europe. Samples were obtained from archived ore collections under the U.S. Geological Survey's project titled "Quick Assessment of Rare and Critical Metals in Ore Deposits: A National Assessment" (2008 to 2013) in an effort to begin an assessment of the Nations' previously mined ore deposits for critical minerals. Mineralized and altered rock samples were provided by the Colorado...

Categories: Data; Types: ArcGIS REST Map Service, ArcGIS Service Definition, Downloadable, Map Service, OGC WFS Layer, OGC WMS Layer, Shapefile; Tags: Alaska, Argentina, Arizona, Arkansas, Australia, All tags... Brazil, Burma, California, Canada, Chile, China, Colorado, Cuba, Democratic Republic of Congo, Economic Geology, Finland, Geochemistry, Germany, Honduras, Idaho, India, Indonesia, Japan, Kansas, Kentucky, Maine, Mauritania, Mexico, Michigan, Mineral Resources, Minnesota, Missouri, Montana, NGDB, Namibia, National Geochemical Database, Nevada, New Jersey, New Mexico, New York, North Carolina, Norway, Oklahoma, Oregon, Papua New Guinea, Pennsylvania, Peru, Philippines, Poland, Portugal, Russia, South Africa, South Carolina, South Dakota, Sweden, Tennessee, Texas, USGS Science Data Catalog (SDC), United States, Utah, Vietnam, Virginia, Washington, Wisconsin, Wyoming, Zambia, aluminum, antimony, arsenic, atomic emission spectroscopy, barium, beryllium, bismuth, boron, cadmium, calcium, cerium, chemical analysis, chromium, cobalt, copper, critical minerals, dysprosium, economic geology, erbium, europium, fluorine, gadolinium, gallium, geochemical data, geochemistry, geoscientific information, germanium, gold, hafnium, historic ores, holmium, indium, iron, lanthanum, lead, lithium, lutetium, magnesium, manganese, metallic mineral resources, mineral deposit type, mineral deposits, mineralogy, molybdenum, neodymium, nickel, niobium, nonmetallic mineral resources, palladium, phosphorus, platinum, potassium, praseodymium, rhenium, rock geochemistry, rocks and deposits, samarium, scandium, silicon, silver, strontium, sulfur, tantalum, tellurium, terbium, thallium, thorium, thulium, tin, titanium, tungsten, uranium, vanadium, ytterbium, yttrium, zinc, zirconium, Fewer tags

Historical methyl mercury in San Francisco Bay

San Francisco Bay, California is considered a mercury-impaired watershed. Elevated concentrations of mercury are found in water and sediment as well as fish and estuarine birds. Sources of mercury to the watershed since 1845 include sediment-associated mercury from mercury mining, mercury losses from gold amalgamation activities in mines of the Sierra Nevada, aerial deposition of mercury from global and regional emissions to air, and the direct discharge of mercury to Bay waters associated with the urbanization and industrialization of the estuary. We assessed historical trends in mercury bioaccumulation by measuring mercury concentrations in feathers of the endangered California Ridgway’s rail (formerly California...

Categories: Data; Tags: California Ridgway's Rail, Feathers, Ice Cores, Lake Tahoe, Mercury, All tags... San Francisco Bay, Sediment, Structural Equation Model, USGS Science Data Catalog (SDC), Wyoming, Fewer tags

Oil and gas wells data for the Wyoming Landscape Conservation Initiative (WLCI), southwestern Wyoming

This feature class was created to assemble oil and gas well information for a comprehensive inventory of energy data pertinent to the Wyoming Landscape Conservation Initiative decision-making process. These data are available as online resources for scientists, resource managers engaged in the Initiative, and other researchers. The GIS data and map services created for this study are available for interactive analysis and/or download at the Energy Geoscience Center WLCI website.

Categories: Data, pre-SM502.8; Types: Downloadable, Map Service, OGC WFS Layer, OGC WMS Layer, Shapefile; Tags: 503702 = Mowry Composite Total Petroleum System, 50370261 = Mowry Continuous Gas, 503704 = Hilliard-Baxter-Mancos Total Petroleum System, 50370461 = Hilliard-Baxter-Mancos Continuous Gas, 503705 = Mesaverde Total Petroleum System, All tags... 50370561 = Almond Continuous Gas, 50370562 = Rock Springs-Ericson Continuous Gas, 503706 = Mesaverde-Lance-Fort Union Composite Total Petroleum System, 50370661 = Mesaverde-Lance-Fort Union Continuous Gas, 503707 = Lewis Total Petroleum System, 50370761 = Lewis Continuous Gas, 503708 = Lance-Fort Union Composite Total Petroleum System, 50370861 = Lance-Fort Union Continuous Gas, Assessment Unit, Coalbed Methane, Coalbed methane resources, Earth Science, Economic geology, Energy Resources, Gas, Geology, Greater Green River Basin, Impacts of Energy Production, National Assessment of Oil and Gas, Natural Gas, Natural Resources, Natural gas resources, North America, Oil, Oil and Gas Exploration, Oil and Natural Gas, Oil sand resources, Oil shale resources, Petroleum, Resource Assessment, Sedimentary Basin, Southwestern Wyoming, Southwestern Wyoming, U.S., U.S. Geological Survey, US56 = Wyoming, USA, USGS, USGS Science Data Catalog (SDC), USGS World Energy Region 5, USGS World Energy Region 5, United States, United States of America, WLCI, WOGCC, WY, Wyoming, Wyoming Landscape Conservation Initiative, Wyoming Oil and Gas Conservation Commission, economy, environment, geoscientificInformation, oilgas, wlci, Fewer tags

Powder River Basin boundary, 1999 Coal Resource Assessment (prbbndg.shp)

This ArcView shapefile contains a polygon representing the boundary of the Powder River Basin based on a generalized contact of Cretaceous and Tertiary rocks. This theme was created specifically for the National Coal Resource Assessment in the Northern Rocky Mountains and Great Plains Region.

Categories: Data, pre-SM502.8; Types: Downloadable, Map Service, OGC WFS Layer, OGC WMS Layer, Shapefile; Tags: Basin, Big Horn County, Campbell County, Coal, Converse County, All tags... Crook County, Custer County, Johnson County, Montana, NCRA Assessment Area, Natrona County, Niobrara County, Northern Rocky Mountain and Great Plains Fort Union Coal Resources Assessment, Northern Rocky Mountain and Great Plains Region, Powder River Basin, Powder River Basin, Powder River Basin boundary, Powder River County, Rosebud County, Sheridan County, Tertiary, Treasure County, USGS National Coal Resource Assessment, USGS Science Data Catalog (SDC), Weston County, Wyoming, coal, economy, environment, geoscientificInformation, nca2000, nrockiescoal, powderbasincoal, Fewer tags