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Rainwater Basin Wetland Complex Vegetation Map 2004 The Rainwater Basin (RWB) wetland complex in south-central Nebraska provides crucial stopover habitat for over 7 million waterfowl and 500,000 shorebirds every spring. However, only 10% of the original RWB wetlands remain, resulting in less available habitat for wetland-dependent birds. Conservation efforts are being employed to alleviate the loss of RWB wetlands. To aid conservation efforts, we created a vegetation map of all historical RWB wetlands based on 2004 imagery. The shapefile maps the 2004 vegetation communities for all historic wetlands in the Rainwater Basin region of Nebraska, USA. Vegetation communities include cropped areas that rarely pond water, cropped areas that often pond water, bare soil... Categories: Data, Publication; Types: Citation, Downloadable, Map Service, OGC WFS Layer, OGC WMS Layer, Shapefile; Tags: Biology, Ecology Nebraska Soil Erosion Index We obtained statewide spatially explicit gridded soil survey data for Nebraska from the Soil Survey Geographic (SSURGO) database. The ‘chorizon,’ ‘chtexture,’ ‘chtexturegrp,’ ‘mapunit,’ and ‘mutext’ tables in the Gridded SSURGO database were joined together using the “mukey” attribute field in a geographic information system (GIS). The representative values for slope (rvslope) and slope length (rvslopelenusle), the susceptibility of the soil to water erosion (Kw), and the soil loss tolerance (t_fact) values were obtained from the set of joined tables and were included in the Water Erosion Index calculation. We acquired county-specific rainfall and runoff factor values (R) from the U.S. Department ofAgriculture’s... Categories: Data; Types: Downloadable, GeoTIFF, Map Service, Raster; Tags: Conservation, Land Use, Nebraska, environment Projecting the Future Encroachment of Woody Vegetation into Grasslands of the Northern Great Plains by Simulating Climate Conditions and Possible Management Actions Maintaining the native prairie lands of the Northern Great Plains (NGP), which provide an important habitat for declining grassland species, requires anticipating the effects of increasing atmospheric carbon dioxide (CO2) concentrations and climate change on the region’s vegetation. Specifically, climate change threatens NGP grasslands by increasing the potential encroachment of native woody species into areas where they were previously only present in minor numbers. This project used a dynamic vegetation model to simulate vegetation type (grassland, shrubland, woodland, and forest) for the NGP for a range of projected future climates and relevant management scenarios. Comparing results of these simulations illustrates... Categories: Project; Types: Map Service, OGC WFS Layer, OGC WMS Layer, OGC WMS Service; Tags: 2012, Biology, CASC, Climate change, Completed, All tags... Conservation, Conterminous United States, Ecology, Ecosystem, Fire, Grasslands and Plains, Grasslands and Plains, Great Plains, Land, Land Management, Landscapes, Landscapes, Natural Resources, North Central, North Central CASC, Projects by Region, United States, biota, boundaries, environment, grasslands, grazing, location, woody encroachment, Fewer tags Region 8 FMIS Wildfire and Fuel Treatment Locations 1980-2015 Wildfire and fuel treatment locations for the USFWS Pacific Southwest Region (California, Nevada, Klamath Basin OR) extracted from the Fire Management Information System (FMIS) on October 23, 2015, for fiscal years 1980-2015. Categories: Data; Types: ArcGIS REST Map Service, ArcGIS Service Definition, Citation, Downloadable, Map Service; Tags: California, Inventory and Monitoring, Natural Resources, Nevada, Oregon, All tags... USFWS, Wildlife Refuge, environment, environment, fuel, treatment, wildfire, Fewer tags Southwest Energy Development and Drought Ecoregions denote areas of general similarity in ecosystems and in the type, quality, and quantity of environmental resources. They are designed to serve as a spatial framework for the research, assessment, management, and monitoring of ecosystems and ecosystem components. These general purpose regions are critical for structuring and implementing ecosystem management strategies across federal agencies, state agencies, and nongovernment organizations that are responsible for different types of resources within the same geographical areas. The approach used to compile this map is based on the premise that ecological regions can be identified through the analysis of patterns of biotic and abiotic phenomena, including... Categories: Data; Types: Citation, Downloadable, Map Service, OGC WFS Layer, OGC WMS Layer, Shapefile; Tags: Biology, Conservation, Ecology, Ecosystem, Land, All tags... Natural Resources, United States, biota, boundaries, environment, location, Fewer tags Nebraska Historic Wetland Mask Historic wetlands based on soils, historic wetland surveys, National Wetland Inventories (NWI) and inventories conducted by the Rainwater Basin Joint Venture. Categories: Data; Types: Downloadable, Map Service, OGC WFS Layer, OGC WMS Layer, Shapefile; Tags: Environment, Nebraska, Wetlands, environment Rainwater Basin Wetland Complex Priority Wetlands The Rainwater Basin Joint Venture (RWBJV) used wetland complex models for analysis in their conservation actions. A Historic Wetland Mask (HWM) was used as analysis features for the playa wetlands. The HWM is a GIS layer created by merging all of the playa wetland features identified from four sources: historic soil surveys , National Wetland Inventory, Soil Survey Geographic Database and a 2005 Ducks Unlimited satellite inventory. Using the HWM allows the model to analyze all potential historic wetlands and evaluate their restoration potential as waterfowl habitat. A combination of raster and vector-based spatial analysis was performed on the historic wetland footprints. Factors included in the mask were size,... Categories: Data; Types: Downloadable, Map Service, OGC WFS Layer, OGC WMS Layer, Shapefile; Tags: Conservation, Land Use, Nebraska, Wetlands, biota Level IV Ecoregions of the Conterminous United States Ecoregions denote areas of general similarity in ecosystems and in the type, quality, and quantity of environmental resources. They are designed to serve as a spatial framework for the research, assessment, management, and monitoring of ecosystems and ecosystem components. These general purpose regions are critical for structuring and implementing ecosystem management strategies across federal agencies, state agencies, and nongovernment organizations that are responsible for different types of resources within the same geographical areas. The approach used to compile this map is based on the premise that ecological regions can be identified through the analysis of patterns of biotic and abiotic phenomena, including... Categories: Data; Types: Citation, Downloadable, Map Service, OGC WFS Layer, OGC WMS Layer, Shapefile; Tags: Biology, Conservation, Ecology, Ecosystem, Land, All tags... Natural Resources, United States, biota, boundaries, environment, location, Fewer tags Level III Ecoregions of the Conterminous United States Ecoregions denote areas of general similarity in ecosystems and in the type, quality, and quantity of environmental resources. They are designed to serve as a spatial framework for the research, assessment, management, and monitoring of ecosystems and ecosystem components. These general purpose regions are critical for structuring and implementing ecosystem management strategies across federal agencies, state agencies, and nongovernment organizations that are responsible for different types of resources within the same geographical areas. The approach used to compile this map is based on the premise that ecological regions can be identified through the analysis of patterns of biotic and abiotic phenomena, including... Categories: Data; Types: Citation, Downloadable, Map Service, OGC WFS Layer, OGC WMS Layer, Shapefile; Tags: Biology, Conservation, Ecology, Ecosystem, Land, All tags... Natural Resources, United States, biota, boundaries, environment, location, Fewer tags Rainwater Basin Wetland Complex Vegetation Map 2012 This shapefile maps the 2012 vegetation communities for all historic wetlands in the Rainwater Basin region of Nebraska, USA. Vegetation communities include cropped areas that rarely pond water, cropped areas that often pond water, bare soil or mudflat, standing water, moist soil species, wetmeadow species, grasses, reed canarygrass, river bulrush, cattail, and woody species. Communities are based on training data from 2012 field vegetation surveys of over 12,000 points. This map is an update of a RWB vegetation map created in 2004. These data were processed by Ele Nugent, Roger Grosse, and Andy Bishop with the Rainwater Basin Joint Venture (RWBJV), with help from RWBJV Geographic Information Systems Laboratory... Categories: Data, Publication; Types: Citation, Downloadable, Map Service, OGC WFS Layer, OGC WMS Layer, Shapefile; Tags: Biology, Ecology, Nebraska, Wetlands, environment Northern Rockies Study Area The study area was defined so as to span the Crown of the Continent, Salmon-Selway, and Greater Yellowstone Ecosystem, and was delineated based on EPA Ecoregions as described in the Processing Steps. Categories: Data; Types: ArcGIS REST Map Service, ArcGIS Service Definition, Downloadable, Map Service, OGC WFS Layer, OGC WMS Layer, OGC WMS Service, Shapefile; Tags: Biology, Biology, Conservation, Conservation, Crown of the Continent, All tags... Crown of the Continent, Data, Data.gov Great Northern Landscape Conservation Cooperative, EARTH SCIENCE > LAND SURFACE > LANDSCAPE, Ecology, Ecology, Ecosystem, Ecosystem, Greater Yellowstone Ecysystem, Greater Yellowstone Ecysystem, Idaho, Idaho, LCC Network Science Catalog, Land, Land, Montana, Montana, Natural Resources, Natural Resources, Northen Rockies, Northen Rockies, Northern Rockies, Northern Rockies, Policy makers & regulators, Regional & county planners, Salmon-Selway, Salmon-Selway, State agencies, United States, United States, Wyoming, Wyoming, boundaries, boundaries, completed, environment, environment, environment, location, location, study area, study area, Fewer tags Loess Hills Whooping Crane and Waterfowl Wetland Priority Habitat Suitability Index Working with the conservation partnership in the Central Loess Hills BUL, this project was designed to develop the necessary baseline data and species habitat models needed to guide targeted conservation. Development of a conservation portfolio for the Central Loess Hills required five separate, but equally important elements. The elements of this project were: 1) Develop a spatially accurate landcover that delineates key habitats for which at-risk species respond, 2) Analyze landcover to develop meaningful landscape indices that can be used to develop spatially explicit species habitat models, 3) Collect and compile occurrence data for priority species (greater prairie chicken, whooping crane, and waterfowl), 4)... Categories: Data, Publication; Types: Citation, Downloadable, Map Service, OGC WFS Layer, OGC WMS Layer, Shapefile; Tags: Conservation, Nebraska, Wetlands, biota Nebraska Landcover10.1 Public (Non-CRP) Version This is a land cover dataset for Nebraska that was most recently updated in January 2013 by the Rainwater Basin Joint Venture. This metadata record supplements the complete description of the data in Bishop, A., Barenberg, A., Volpe, N., and Grosse, R. January, 2011 Nebraska Land Cover Development. Rainwater Basin Joint Venture, U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, Grand Island, Nebraska.http://rwbjv.org/rainwater2012/wp-content/uploads/2013/06/Nebraska-Landcover-Version-101.pdf Categories: Data; Types: Downloadable, GeoTIFF, Map Service, Raster; Tags: Conservation, Land Use, Nebraska, environment North American Breeding Bird Survey 1998-2013 for GPLCC LCD Pilot Region Categories: Data; Types: Downloadable, Map Service, OGC WFS Layer, OGC WMS Layer, Shapefile; Tags: Ecology, Environment, environment Nebraska Landcover 11 Public (Non-CRP) Version This is a land cover dataset for Nebraska that was most recently updated in 2015 by the Rainwater Basin Joint Venture. This metadata record supplements the complete description of the data in Bishop, A., Barenberg, A., Volpe, N., and Grosse, R. January, Nebraska Land Cover Development Version 11. Rainwater Basin Joint Venture, U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, Grand Island, Nebraska. Categories: Data; Types: ArcGIS REST Map Service, ArcGIS Service Definition, Downloadable, GeoTIFF, Map Service, Raster; Tags: Conservation, Land Cover, Land Use, Nebraska, Nebraska, All tags... RWBJV, environment, Fewer tags Landscape Conservation Design (LCD) Pilot Area Boundary A subset of the EPA/Omernick Level III High Plains Ecoregion (25) that was selected as a pilot landscape conservation design project. Categories: Data; Types: Downloadable, Map Service, OGC WFS Layer, OGC WMS Layer, Shapefile; Tags: Biology, Conservation, Ecology, Ecosystem, Land, All tags... Natural Resources, United States, biota, boundaries, environment, location, Fewer tags Rainwater Basin Wetland Complex Pit Fill Prioritization Model This ranking criterion was developed to identify those pits that most negatively impact watershed integrity of publically owned and Wetland Reserve Program (WRP) playa wetlands. Currently, the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service (USFWS) manages 59 Waterfowl Production Areas (WPAs) while the Nebraska Game and Parks Commission oversees 35 Wildlife Management Areas (WMAs). These wetlands flood as a result of precipitation or snow melt. With the transition to pivot irrigation, a large number of irrigation reuse pits have been abandoned over recent years. Although not being used for irrigation, these pits continue to fill with water from precipitation events shortstopping water that could have reached the neighboring... Categories: Data; Types: Downloadable, Map Service, OGC WFS Layer, OGC WMS Layer, Shapefile; Tags: Conservation, Land Use, Nebraska, biota