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Optimization at the infrastructure-connectivity nexus: boosting cost-efficiency of restoration using dam condition data for Lake Michigan Aging infrastructure is creating a pressing national need to align priorities between civil engineering and other interests. Restoring ecological connectivity of river networks that are fragmented by dams and road crossings has become a prominent objective for environmental managers across the country. A mature decision-support framework and newly available data on the condition of dams throughout the Lake Michigan basin offer unique opportunities to test for potential cost-efficiency gains from sharing the costs of removing decrepit dams between environmental and engineering organizations. At sites where these interests align, genuine win-win scenarios could advance both ecological connectivity and infrastructure... Categories: Data, Project; Types: Map Service, OGC WFS Layer, OGC WMS Layer, OGC WMS Service; Tags: Academics & scientific researchers, Applications and Tools, Conservation NGOs, Consevation design, EARTH SCIENCE > LAND SURFACE > LANDSCAPE, All tags... Federal resource managers, LCC Network Science Catalog, Lake Michigan, Project, State agencies, Tribes, dams, environment, environment, onGoing, Fewer tags National Wetlands Inventory - Wetlands This data set represents the extent, approximate location and type of wetlands and deepwater habitats in the United States and its Territories. These data delineate the areal extent of wetlands and surface waters as defined by Cowardin et al. (1979). Certain wetland habitats are excluded from the National mapping program because of the limitations of aerial imagery as the primary data source used to detect wetlands. These habitats include seagrasses or submerged aquatic vegetation that are found in the intertidal and subtidal zones of estuaries and near shore coastal waters. Some deepwater reef communities (coral or tuberficid worm reefs) have also been excluded from the inventory. These habitats, because of their... Categories: Data; Types: Map Service, OGC WFS Layer, OGC WMS Layer, OGC WMS Service; Tags: Academics & scientific researchers, Alabama, Alabama, Alaska, Arizona, All tags... Arkansas, California, Coastal waters, Coastal waters, Colorado, Connecticut, Conservation NGOs, Data, Deepwater habitats, Deepwater habitats, Delaware, District of Columbia, EARTH SCIENCE > BIOSPHERE > ECOSYSTEMS > AQUATIC ECOSYSTEMS > WETLANDS, Federal resource managers, Florida, Florida, Floridia, Georgia, Guam, Hawaii, Hydrography, Hydrography, Idaho, Illinois, Indiana, Iowa, Kansas, Kentucky, LCC Network Science Catalog, Louisiaina, Louisiana, Louisiana, Maine, Maryland, Massachusetts, Michigan, Minnesota, Mississippi, Mississippi, Missouri, Montana, NWI, NWI, National Wetlands Inventory, National Wetlands Inventory, Nebraska, Nevada, New Hampshire, New Jersey, New Mexico, New York, North Carolina, North Dakota, Ohio, Oklahoma, Oregon, Pennsylvania, Puerto Rico, Regional & county planners, Rhode Island, Saipan, South Carolina, South Dakota, State agencies, Surface water, Surface water, Swamps, marshes, bogs, fens, Swamps, marshes, bogs, fens, Tennessee, Texas, Texas, U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, USFWS, USFWS, United States, Utah, Vermont, Virgin Islands, Virginia, Washington, West Virginia, Wetlands, Wetlands, Wisconsin, Wyoming, completed, environment, environment, geoscientificInformation, geoscientificInformation, inlandWaters, inlandWaters, oceans, oceans, Fewer tags Support to Western States Crucial Habitat Assessment Tools The SRLCC provided funds to the states of Arizona and New Mexico to support development of the states Crucial Habitat Assessment Tools (CHATs) which provide a decision support system to better incorporate wildlife values, sensitive animals and plants, and important ecosystem features into land use decision-making to reduce conflicts and surprises.Several states have released wildlife mapping tools that are the foundation for displaying crucial wildlife and corridor information. The state and regional CHATs are non-regulatory, and give project planners and the general public access to credible scientific data on a broad scale for use in project analysis, siting and planning. This includes large-scale development... Categories: Data, Project; Types: ArcGIS REST Map Service, ArcGIS Service Definition, Downloadable, Map Service, OGC WFS Layer, OGC WMS Layer, OGC WMS Service; Tags: AZ-01, AZ-02, AZ-03, AZ-04, AZ-05, All tags... AZ-06, AZ-07, AZ-08, AZ-09, Applications and Tools, Arizona, Data Acquisition and Development, Datasets/Database, Decision Support, Four Corners, GIS, GIS, Green River Basin, LCC, LCC, LCC Network Science Catalog, Map, Mule Deer and Elk, NM-01, NM-02, NM-03, Native Fish, New Mexico, Project, SRLCC, Sage-steppe, State agencies, Upper Rio Grande, Western United States, completed, crucial habitat, crucial habitat, crucial habitat assessment, decision support system, decision support system, decision support systems, development, development, development, ecosystems, ecosystems, ecosystems, sensitive animals, sensitive animals, sensitive animals, sensitive plants, sensitive plants, sensitive plants, wildlife, wildlife, wildlife, Fewer tags Bear River Watershed Conservation Area: Conserving Wildlife Habitat on Working Landscapes The purpose of this Agreement is to provide financial assistance to the National Wildlife Refuge Association in support of collaborative work between them and the Bear River Refuge to further the goals and accomplish objectives of the Bear River Watershed Conservation Area, and to work with the Friends of Bear River Refuge to establish an endowment fund for conservation education in the watershed. The proposed Bear River Watershed Conservation Area (BRWCA) project would work with private landowners to conserve the natural resources and working landscapes of the area by acquiring conservation easements from willing sellers, the project would help maintain important habitat for a variety of fish, mammals, and migratory... Categories: Data, Project; Types: Map Service, OGC WFS Layer, OGC WMS Layer, OGC WMS Service; Tags: Applications and Tools, Bear River, Bear River Migratory Bird Refuge, Bear River Watershed, Conservation Design, All tags... Federal resource managers, ID-02, Informing Conservation Delivery, LCC, LCC Network Science Catalog, Project, SRLCC, SRLCC, UT-01, Utah, Utah, WY-00, Wyoming, collaborative conservation, collaborative conservation, completed, conservation education, conservation education, conservation strategies, conservation strategies, Fewer tags Eastern Environmental Wind Project Risk Polygons This pilot mapping project, produced by the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service (Service) in collaboration with staff from the North Carolina Wildlife Resources Commission (NCWRC), provides general information on the potential risk to species of concern and sensitive habitats from proposed wind energy projects in the coastal plain of North Carolina. The map is intended to assist wind energy developers with appropriate siting of proposed wind energy projects that are subject to the Service’s 2012 Land-Based Wind Energy Guidelines, particularly during the Tier 1(Preliminary Site Evaluation) and Tier 2 (Site Characterization) stages of site evaluation. It is intended to be used as a general guidance, and should not be used... Categories: Data; Types: Downloadable, Map Service, OGC WFS Layer, OGC WMS Layer, Shapefile; Tags: Migratory Birds, North Carolina, Wind Power, environment Shivwits Paiute Cultural Values and Important Natural Resources at Risk from Landscape Level Stressors The Shivwits Band of the Paiute Indian Tribe of Utah (PITU) has recognized the need to identify and assess the potential impacts of landscape-level stressors, such as climate change and drought, on tribal and ancestral lands and resources, such as water resources and culturally significant species and the habitats and ecosystems that support them. With funding from the Southern Rockies Landscape Conservation Cooperative, the Shivwits hired Barbara Dugelby1 of Round River Conservation Studies to conduct the assessment and prepare this report. The results of this report and the assessment will be integrated into the overall landscape level assessment of SRLCC priorities. This report presents a summary of the findings... Categories: Data, Project; Types: Map Service, OGC WFS Layer, OGC WMS Layer, OGC WMS Service; Tags: Conservation Planning, LCC Network Science Catalog, Project, Shivwits Band of Paiutes ancestral lands, Southern Rockies Landscape Conservation Cooperative, All tags... Tribes, Tribes, Utah, Vulnerability Assessment, climate change, completed, cultural resources, cultural values, culturally significant ecosystems, culturally significant habitats, culturally significant species, drought, eastern NV, natural resources, southwestern Utah, stressors, vulnerability assessment, vulnerability assessments, water, western UT, Fewer tags Projecting Long-Term Landscape Change Along the Missouri River: Implications for Cottonwood Forests and Songbird Populations Cottonwood forests are in decline becasue of losses from land use conversion and reduced regeneration from river regulation. Projecting lon-term implications of current trends and policies, or alterations of these, will help to identify the importance and scale of restoration activities needed to offset losses. This project developed a landscape dynamic model to project future (eig. 25, 50, 100 year) trends in cottonwood forst area and age distribution for four remnant floodplain reches on the Missouri River, based on recent rates (or alternative scenarios) of land use change, cottonwood recruitment, and succession. For two reaches, these changes are used to project the effects onabundances of selected songbird... Categories: Data, Project; Types: Map Service, OGC WFS Layer, OGC WMS Layer, OGC WMS Service; Tags: 2011, Conservation NGOs, Cottonwood forest, Decision Support, EARTH SCIENCE > LAND SURFACE > LANDSCAPE, All tags... Federal resource managers, LCC, LCC Network Science Catalog, Missouri River, Plains and Prairie Potholes Landscape Conservation Cooperative, Project, Report, State agencies, Tribes, completed, environment, environment, forest songbirds, land use/land cover change, Fewer tags Collaborative Multi-species Monitoring in the Southern Rockies LCC: Impacts of Forest Restoration Treatments on Ponderosa Pine Ecosystems in Colorado Colorados Front Range represents a region of the Southern Rockies LCC that is both ecologically and economically significant. It is home to the majority of Colorados residents, including the major population centers of Denver, Fort Collins, Boulder, and Colorado Springs, and provides critical ecosystem services such as clean and abundant water, wildlife habitat, recreation opportunities, and aesthetic values to the rest of the state. Ponderosa pine (Pinus ponderosa) dominated forests span the majority of the Front Range mountains and foothills, covering approximately 700,000 acres of the Front Range landscape between 5000 and 8500 ft elevation. The lower-montane zone ponderosa pine forests (~5500-7000 ft) form the... Categories: Data, Project; Types: Map Service, OGC WFS Layer, OGC WMS Layer, OGC WMS Service; Tags: AZ-01, AZ-04, CO-02, CO-03, CO-05, All tags... Colorado, Colorado, Federal resource managers, Front Range, GIS, Informing Conservation Delivery, LCC, LCC Network Science Catalog, Monitoring, NM-01, NM-02, NM-03, Project, Report, Rocky Mountain Front Range, Rocky Mountains, SRLCC, Southern Rockies Ecoregion, UT-01, UT-02, UT-03, completed, forest restoration, forest restoration, impacts, impacts, monitoring, monitoring, ponderosa pine, ponderosa pine, understory plants, understory plants, wildlife habitat, wildlife habitat, Fewer tags Regional decision support tool for identifying vulnerabilities of riverine habitat and fishes to climate change Climate change is expected to alter the distributions and community composition of stream fishes in the Great Lakes region in the 21st century, in part as a result of altered hydrological systems (stream temperature, streamflow, and habitat). Resource managers need information and tools to understand where fish species and stream habitats are expected to change under future conditions. Fish sample collections and environmental variables from multiple sources across the United States Great Lakes Basin were integrated and used to develop empirical models to predict fish species occurrence under present-day climate conditions. Random Forests models were used to predict the probability of occurrence of 13 lotic fish... Categories: Data, Project; Types: Downloadable, Map Service, OGC WFS Layer, OGC WMS Layer, OGC WMS Service, Shapefile; Tags: 2011, 2011, 2012, 2012, 2013, All tags... 2013, Applications and Tools, Conservation NGOs, Decision Support, EARTH SCIENCE > LAND SURFACE > LANDSCAPE, Federal resource managers, Great Lakes, Interested public, LCC, LCC Network Science Catalog, Landscape Conservation Cooperatives, Private land owners, Project, Regional & county planners, State agencies, Tribes, Upper Midwest and Great Lakes Landscape Conservation Cooperative, climate change, completed, decision-support tool, environment, environment, fish occurrence, fishes, great lakes, lotic, occupancy model, occupancy model, occupancy model, riverine habitat, riverine habitat, rivers, upper midwest, vulnerability, Fewer tags Montana SWAP Climate Change Chapter Montana's State Wildlife Action Plan (SWAP) is a comprehensive strategy to maintain the health and diversity of wildlife within the state, including reducing the need for future listings under the Endangered Species Act. Special emphasis is given to addressing wildlife species that have received less attention in the past, including those that are not hunted or fished. All 50 states have developed SWAPs, providing a framework for planning and coordination on wildlife issues that cross state boundaries. The development and implementation of SWAPs is supported by the US Fish and Wildlife Services' State and Tribal Wildlife Grant Program.Montana's SWAP addresses a variety of wildlife and habitat management challenges,... Categories: Data, Project; Types: Map Service, OGC WFS Layer, OGC WMS Layer, OGC WMS Service; Tags: 2010, EARTH SCIENCE > LAND SURFACE > LANDSCAPE, Informing Conservation Delivery, LCC, LCC Network Science Catalog, All tags... Montana, Plains and Prairie Potholes Landscape Conservation Cooperative, Project, Report, State Wildlife Action Plan, State agencies, completed, environment, environment, Fewer tags Field Assessments of Great Lakes Barriers Capacity to prioritize barrier removals in the Great Lakes basin is currently limited by lack of data on the passability of road crossings and dams for both unwanted invasive species and desirable native migratory fishes. Building upon our initial barrier inventory, this project has two key elements. First, we are testing whether our landscape statistical models accurately predict the upstream limits of fish migrations along the Wisconsin coast of Lake Michigan. This involves intensive field work to determine the actual upstream limits of suckers, pike, and steelhead during the spring migration. Second, we are collecting systematic data on the size and condition of dams throughout the Lake Michigan basin. These... Categories: Data, Project; Types: Map Service, OGC WFS Layer, OGC WMS Layer, OGC WMS Service; Tags: 2015, Decision Support, EARTH SCIENCE > LAND SURFACE > LANDSCAPE, Federal resource managers, Great Lakes, All tags... LCC, LCC Network Science Catalog, Project, Report, Road crossings, State agencies, Upper Midwest and Great Lakes Landscape Conservation Cooperative, completed, dams, environment, environment, fishes, fragmentation, migration, onGoing, spawning, Fewer tags A Regional Model for Building Resilience to Climate Change: Development and Demonstration in Colorado The Gunnison Climate Working Group is a chartered partnership of 14 public and private organizations in Colorados Upper Gunnison Basin. The Southern Rockies LCC (SRLCC) funded The Nature Conservancy to complete a comprehensive vulnerability assessment identifying species and ecosystems most at risk from climate change. The assessment included a set of habitat adaptation strategies for priority species, such as the Gunnison sage-grouse. As a final product, local demonstration projects were designed and installed.The financial support and partnership provided by the SRLCC was critical to the Gunnison Climate Working Groups success and progress towards addressing climate change. As a direct result of the SRLCC involvement,... Categories: Data, Project; Types: Map Service, OGC WFS Layer, OGC WMS Layer, OGC WMS Service; Tags: Applications and Tools, CO-03, Colorado, Colorado, Gunnison Basin, All tags... Gunnison Basin, Gunnison sage-grouse, Gunnison sage-grouse, Informing Conservation Delivery, LCC, LCC Network Science Catalog, Map, Native Fish, Private land owners, Project, Regional & county planners, Report, SRLCC, Sage-steppe, Southern Rockies LCC, State agencies, Streamflows, Vulnerability Assessment, adaption strategies, adaption strategies, brooding habitat, brooding habitat, climate change, climate change, completed, vulnerability, vulnerability, wet meadows, wet meadows, Fewer tags Inland Cutthroat Trout Protocol (ICP) Web-mapping Application: Native Cutthroat Trout Data Compilation and Internet Database Development The Colorado River Cutthroat Trout (CRCT) conservation team identified a need to further develop a long-term approach to updating and maintaining the CRCT GIS-based database that was created using the Inland Cutthroat Trout Protocol (ICP). The University of Wyoming Geographic Information Science Center was contracted to develop a multi-state, web-based database and a web-based application for viewing and editing the data to aid in conservation activities. Previously, Colorado, Utah and Wyoming all used separate, desktop databases that could not be shared with partnering agencies nor updated for all users simultaneously. The database and application is for CRCT as well as other cutthroat species (Greenback cutthroat... Categories: Data, Project; Types: Map Service, OGC WFS Layer, OGC WMS Layer, OGC WMS Service; Tags: Cutthroat trout, Data Management and Integration, Federal resource managers, Informing Conservation Delivery, LCC Network Science Catalog, All tags... Native Fish, Project, State agencies, completed, cutthroat trout, database, database, inland cutthroat trout, web mapping application, web-based database, web-mapping, western USA, Fewer tags Iowa SWAP Climate Change Chapter Iowa's State Wildlife Action Plan (SWAP) is a comprehensive strategy to maintain the health and diversity of wildlife within the state, including reducing the need for future listings under the Endangered Species Act. Special emphasis is given to addressing wildlife species that have received less attention in the past, including those that are not hunted or fished. All 50 states have developed SWAPs, providing a framework for planning and coordination on wildlife issues that cross state boundaries. The development and implementation of SWAPs is supported by the US Fish and Wildlife Services' State and Tribal Wildlife Grant Program.Iowa's SWAP addresses a variety of wildlife and habitat management challenges, the... Categories: Data, Project; Types: Map Service, OGC WFS Layer, OGC WMS Layer, OGC WMS Service; Tags: 2010, EARTH SCIENCE > LAND SURFACE > LANDSCAPE, Informing Conservation Delivery, Iowa, LCC, All tags... LCC Network Science Catalog, Plains and Prairie Potholes Landscape Conservation Cooperative, Project, Report, State Wildlife Action Plan, State agencies, completed, environment, environment, Fewer tags Assessment of Connectivity and Enhancement of Adaptive Management Capacity on Navajo Nation Lands The University of California, Davis in partnership with the Navajo Nation is partnering with the Southern Rockies LCC to provide estimates of habitat connectivity for focal species on the Navajo Nation and adjacent lands that the tribe wishes to incorporate into planning and implementation of adaptive management. The project will derive habitat variables as inputs for connectivity models, and model outputs likely will include habitat quality and conductance. Species-specific models will be mathematically integrated to permit probabilistic statements about simultaneous connectivity for two or more species. The spatial data developed on wildlife distributions and habitat to model connectivity and, ultimately, viability... Categories: Data, Project; Types: ArcGIS REST Map Service, ArcGIS Service Definition, Downloadable, Map Service, OGC WFS Layer, OGC WMS Layer, OGC WMS Service; Tags: AZ-01, Applications and Tools, Arizona, Arizona, Cultural Resources, All tags... Datasets/Database, Decision Support, Four Corners, GIS, GIS, Informing Conservation Delivery, LCC, LCC, LCC Network Science Catalog, Map, Mule Deer and Elk, NM-03, Navajo Nation, Navajo Nation, New Mexico, Project, SRLCC, Tribes, UT-03, Utah, adaptive management, adaptive management, adaptive management, completed, crucial habitat, crucial habitat, crucial habitat, decision support systems, decision support systems, decision support systems, focal species, focal species, focal species, habitat connectivity, habitat connectivity, habitat connectivity, wildlife corridors, wildlife corridors, wildlife corridors, Fewer tags Wyoming SWAP Climate Change Chapter Wyoming's State Wildlife Action Plan (SWAP) is a comprehensive strategy to maintain the health and diversity of wildlife within the state, including reducing the need for future listings under the Endangered Species Act. Special emphasis is given to addressing wildlife species that have received less attention in the past, including those that are not hunted or fished. All 50 states have developed SWAPs, providing a framework for planning and coordination on wildlife issues that cross state boundaries. The development and implementation of SWAPs is supported by the US Fish and Wildlife Services' State and Tribal Wildlife Grant Program.Wyoming's SWAP addresses a variety of wildlife and habitat management challenges,... Categories: Data, Project; Types: Map Service, OGC WFS Layer, OGC WMS Layer, OGC WMS Service; Tags: 2010, EARTH SCIENCE > LAND SURFACE > LANDSCAPE, Informing Conservation Delivery, LCC, LCC Network Science Catalog, All tags... Plains and Prairie Potholes Landscape Conservation Cooperative, Project, Report, State Wildlife Action Plan, State agencies, Wyoming, completed, environment, environment, Fewer tags Vulnerability and Connectivity of Natural Landscapes and Riparian Habitat in the SRLCC Land managers have incorporated threats to biodiversity for nearly two decades, but very few efforts have included threats from future conditions and fewer still have assessed vulnerability to climate change. This project will address two themes: 1) providing foundational information about habitat fragmentation and connectivity and 2) identifying the degree of vulnerability of key habitats to climate change.For development of understanding broadextent, a landscape-level pattern of climate change is an important complement to approaches to estimate rangeshifts for certain key focal species. Ecological system types (i.e. coarsefilters) are widely used in conservation planning because they contain valuable resources... Categories: Data, Project; Types: ArcGIS REST Map Service, ArcGIS Service Definition, Downloadable, Map Service, OGC WFS Layer, OGC WMS Layer, OGC WMS Service; Tags: AZ-01, AZ-04, Applications and Tools, CO-02, CO-03, All tags... CO-05, Conservation Planning, Cultural Resources, Datasets/Database, Federal resource managers, Four Corners, GIS, Green River Basin, LCC, LCC Network Science Catalog, Map, NM-01, NM-02, NM-03, Native Fish, Private land owners, Project, SRLCC, SRLCC, Sage-steppe, State agencies, Streamflows, UT-01, UT-02, UT-03, Upper Rio Grande, Vulnerability Assessment, climate change, climate change, completed, connectivity, connectivity, energy development, impact, impact, riparian habitat, riparian habitat, sensitivity, sensitivity, terrestrial habitat, terrestrial habitat, urban development, urban development, vulnerability, vulnerability, Fewer tags Erosion and Sediment Analysis in the Upper Green River Basin Information on the sources of sediment production and amount is necessary to better understand the relationship between landscape-scale ecosystem drivers (fire, large-scale invasive species removal, recreation, oil and gas development, and grazing) and sediment loading in rivers, streams, and reservoirs. An improved understanding of the sources of sediment production and the contribution of each source to total sediment load would enable resource managers to better locate and design conservation strategies to reduce sediment loading, and improve water quality, native fish habitats, and upland vegetation cover.This project will conduct an erosion and sediment supply analysis in a portion of the Upper Green River... Categories: Data, Project; Types: ArcGIS REST Map Service, ArcGIS Service Definition, Downloadable, Map Service, OGC WFS Layer, OGC WMS Layer, OGC WMS Service; Tags: CO-03, Colorado, Data Acquisition and Development, Datasets/Database, Decision Support, All tags... Federal resource managers, Green River Basin, Green River Basin, LCC Network Science Catalog, Map, Native Fish, Project, SRLCC, Southern Rockies LCC, State agencies, Streamflows, Tribes, UT-01, Upper Green River Basin, Utah, WY-00, Wyoming, Wyoming, completed, ecosystem drivers, ecosystem drivers, erosion, erosion, erosion, fire, fire, fire, green river basin, invasive species removal, invasive species removal, invasive species removal, oil and gas development, oil and gas development, oil and gas development, recreation, recreation, recreation, sediment, sediment, sediment, sediment loading, sediment loading, sediment loading, upper green river basin, Fewer tags