USGS National Hydrography Dataset Best Resolution (NHD) for Hydrological Unit (HU) 8 - 17020017 (published 20231220) GeoPackage

The National Hydrography Dataset (NHD) is a feature-based database that interconnects and uniquely identifies the stream segments or reaches that make up the nation's surface water drainage system. NHD data was originally developed at 1:100,000-scale and exists at that scale for the whole country. This high-resolution NHD, generally developed at 1:24,000/1:12,000 scale, adds detail to the original 1:100,000-scale NHD. (Data for Alaska, Puerto Rico and the Virgin Islands was developed at high-resolution, not 1:100,000 scale.) Local resolution NHD is being developed where partners and data exist. The NHD contains reach codes for networked features, flow direction, names, and centerline representations for areal water...

Tags: Administrative watershed units, Administrative watershed units, Alberta, Area of Complex Channels, Area to be submerged, All tags... Basin, Basin, Bay/Inlet, Boundaries, Boundary, Bridge, British Columbia, CA, Canada, Canal/Ditch, Coastline, Connector, Dam/Weir, Downloadable Data, Drainage areas for surface water, Drainageway, Estuary, Flow direction network, Flume, ForeShore, Gaging Station, Gate, GeoPackage, HU-8, HU-8 Subbasin, HU10, HU12, HU14, HU16, HU2, HU4, HU6, HU8, HU8_17020017, HUC, Hazard Zone, Hydrographic, Hydrography, Hydrography, Hydrography, Hydrologic Unit Code, Hydrologic Units, Ice mass, Inundation Area, Levee, Line, Lock Chamber, Marsh, National Hydrography Dataset (NHD), National Hydrography Dataset (NHD) Best Resolution, National Hydrography Dataset (NHD) Best Resolution, Nonearthen Shore, Open Geospatial Consortium GeoPackage 1.2, Orthoimage, Playa, Point, PointEvent, Pond, Rapids, Rapids, Reach, Reach code, Reef, Region, Reservoir, Rock, Sea/Ocean, Sink/Rise, Sounding Datum Line, Special Use Zone, Special Use Zone Limit, Spillway, Stream, Stream/River, Sub-basin, Sub-region, Subbasin, Submerged Stream, Subregion, Subwatershed, Surface water systems, Swamp, Topographic, Tunnel, Underground Conduit, WBD, WBD, Wall, Wash, Water Intake Outflow, Waterfall, Watershed, Watershed Boundaries, Watershed Boundary Dataset, Watershed Boundary Dataset, Well, artificial path, boundaries, dams, drainage systems and characteristics, inlandWaters, lakes, ngda, rivers, Fewer tags

Forecasting the impacts of Climate Change in the Columbia River Basin: Threats to Fish Habitat Connectivity

For the past six years, the Bureau of Reclamation (BOR) has funded the USGS to study fish responses to restoration efforts and to construct a model relating stream habitat with fish population dynamics in the Methow River Basin, a tributary of the Columbia River. In the proposed study, we will use fish growth, distribution and movement (USGS data), foodweb data (Idaho State University), river flow (BOR data that we will expand) and water temperature data (from numerous agencies) to develop spatially-explicit bioenergetics models to assess effects of climate change on the viability of resident salmonid populations based on models being developed by USGS. The bioenergetics models will integrate such things as climate-change...

Categories: Data, Project; Types: Map Service, OGC WFS Layer, OGC WMS Layer, OGC WMS Service; Tags: Alberta, British Columbia, Bull Trout, Climate Change, Climate Change, All tags... Climate Change, Climate Change, Climate Change, Columbia Basin, Columbia River Basin, Federal resource managers, Fish Habitat Connectivity, Goal 2: Conserve landscape connectivity, Goal 3: Maintain hydrologic regimes, ID-1, ID-2, ID-2, ID-2, ID-2, Idaho, Idaho, Informing Conservation Delivery, LCC Network Science Catalog, Land Use Change, MT-1, MT-1, MT-1, MT-1, Montana, Montana, Montana, Montana, Montana, NV-2, NV-2, NV-2, NV-2, Nevada, Nevada, Nevada, Nevada, Nevada, OR-1, OR-1, OR-1, OR-1, OR-2, OR-2, OR-2, OR-2, OR-3, OR-3, OR-3, OR-3, OR-4, OR-4, OR-4, OR-4, OR-5, OR-5, OR-5, OR-5, Oregon, Oregon, Oregon, Oregon, Oregon, Population & Habitat Evaluation/Projection, Private land owners, Project, Publication, Report, Riverine, Salmon, State agencies, Steelhead Trout, UT-1, UT-1, UT-1, UT-1, Utah, Utah, Utah, Utah, Utah, WA-1, WA-1, WA-1, WA-1, WA-3, WA-3, WA-3, WA-3, WA-4, WA-4, WA-4, WA-4, WA-5, WA-5, WA-5, WA-5, WA-8, WA-8, WA-8, WA-8, WY-1, WY-1, WY-1, WY-1, Washington, Washington, Washington, Washington, Washington, Website, Wyoming, Wyoming, Wyoming, Wyoming, Wyoming, completed, environment, Fewer tags

GNLCC Multi-dimensional Synthesis

The GNLCC Multi-dimensional Synthesis is a synthesis of existing information in four categories to promote a common understanding of situation, existing information and information gaps, as well as providing an index of programmatic, resource and other climate and landscape related information for GNLCC. The synthesis includes: the GNLCC Resource Directory (organizations and initiatives); climate and ecological response (what does existing and projected climate information say and what are expected ecological effects); and monitoring (who is monitoring what).FY2011Objectives:Provide a Framework from which to organize the various monitoring and evaluation efforts. Included are key monitoring and evaluation questions...

Categories: Data, Project; Types: Map Service, OGC WFS Layer, OGC WMS Layer, OGC WMS Service; Tags: Alberta, British Columbia, CO-2, CO-3, CO-3, All tags... CO-3, CO-3, Climate Change, Colorado, Colorado, Conservation NGOs, Data Acquisition and Development, GNLCC, Goal 2: Conserve landscape connectivity, Goal 3: Maintain hydrologic regimes, Goal 4: Promote landscape-scale disturbances, ID-1, ID-1, ID-1, ID-1, ID-2, ID-2, ID-2, ID-2, Idaho, Idaho, Idaho, Idaho, Idaho, Interested public, LCC Network Science Catalog, MT-1, MT-1, MT-1, MT-1, Montana, Montana, Montana, Montana, Montana, OR-2, OR-2, OR-2, OR-2, Oregon, Oregon, Oregon, Oregon, Oregon, Project, Report, Synthesis, UT-1, UT-1, UT-1, UT-1, Utah, Utah, Utah, Utah, Utah, WA-1, WA-1, WA-1, WA-1, WA-2, WA-2, WA-2, WA-2, WA-3, WA-3, WA-3, WA-3, WA-4, WA-4, WA-4, WA-4, WA-5, WA-5, WA-5, WA-5, WA-8, WA-8, WA-8, WA-8, WY-1, WY-1, WY-1, WY-1, Washington, Washington, Washington, Washington, Washington, Wyoming, Wyoming, Wyoming, Wyoming, Wyoming, completed, environment, Fewer tags

Understanding Observational, Proxy, and Modeled Climate Data: Outreach, Training, and Support for Managers and Scientists

We propose a collaborative project with the USGS, Wyoming State Climate Office, USFWS, USFS, and the NPS whereby we will assemble and maintain long-term records of climate from key stations in and around the Great Northern LCC and subject these records to a rigorous series of QA/QC procedures. Where appropriate we will use best available practices to infill missing data, and we will develop station histories (e.g., details of station moves, instrumentation changes, etc.) as a context for interpreting these records. We will then rigorously analyze patterns of long-term (50-100 years) variability and trends in these datasets, and provide summaries designed to meet the needs of non-climate specialists working in the...

Categories: Data, Project; Types: Map Service, OGC WFS Layer, OGC WMS Layer, OGC WMS Service; Tags: Alberta, British Columbia, CO-2, CO-3, CO-3, All tags... CO-3, Climate Change, Colorado, Colorado, Data Acquisition and Development, Federal resource managers, GNLCC, Goal 2: Conserve landscape connectivity, Goal 3: Maintain hydrologic regimes, ID-1, ID-1, ID-1, ID-2, ID-2, ID-2, Idaho, Idaho, Idaho, Idaho, LCC Network Science Catalog, MT-1, MT-1, MT-1, Montana, Montana, Montana, Montana, OR-2, OR-2, OR-2, Oregon, Oregon, Oregon, Oregon, Project, Report, State agencies, Training/Outreach/Workshop, Tribes, UT-1, UT-1, UT-1, Utah, Utah, Utah, Utah, WA-1, WA-1, WA-1, WA-2, WA-2, WA-2, WA-3, WA-3, WA-3, WA-4, WA-4, WA-4, WA-5, WA-5, WA-5, WA-8, WA-8, WA-8, WY-1, WY-1, WY-1, Washington, Washington, Washington, Washington, Website, Wyoming, Wyoming, Wyoming, Wyoming, completed, environment, Fewer tags

Identifying conservation corridors and transboundary linkages for wolverines in the Canadian Crown of the Continent ecosystem

The Canadian portion of the Crown of the Continent (CCoC) ecosystem has been identified as crucial for wolverines north of the US border to rescue or supply individuals and genes through dispersal to the highly fragmented population in the northern US Rocky Mountains. Highway 3, motorized recreation, and a growing resource extraction industry, however, increasingly fragment this critical landscape. This project will capitalize on multi-year wolverine occupancy and genetic data collected noninvasively in a >40,000 km2 area encompassing the core protected areas of the central Canadian Rocky Mountains to the north; and Glacier-Waterton Lakes National Park complex in the south. Our goal is to obtain spatially-explicit...

Categories: Data, Project; Types: Map Service, OGC WFS Layer, OGC WMS Layer, OGC WMS Service; Tags: Alberta, Alpine, Applications and Tools, British Columbia, Climate Change, All tags... Connectivity, Crown of the Continent (CCoC) Ecosystem, Data Acquisition and Development, Decision Support, Federal resource managers, Goal 2: Conserve landscape connectivity, ID-1, Idaho, Idaho, LCC Network Science Catalog, Land Use Change, MT-1, MT-1, MT-1, MT-1, Map, Monitoring, Montana, Montana, Montana, Montana, Montana, Project, Rocky Mountain, State agencies, Tribes, WA-5, WA-5, WA-5, WA-5, Washington, Washington, Washington, Washington, Washington, Wolverine, completed, environment, wolverines, Fewer tags

Major Lakes Crown of the Continent Ecosystem (CCE)

This dataset contains a seamless 1:1,000,000 scale British Columbia, Alberta and Montana lakes layer.

Categories: Data; Types: Downloadable, Map Service, OGC WFS Layer, OGC WMS Layer, Shapefile; Tags: 1:1 000 000, 1:1 000 000, Alberta, Alberta, British Columbia, All tags... British Columbia, Data, EARTH SCIENCE > LAND SURFACE > LANDSCAPE, Federal resource managers, LCC Network Science Catalog, Montana, Montana, Regional & county planners, State agencies, completed, environment, hydrology, hydrology, lakes, lakes, Fewer tags

Projections of Rangeland Fractional Component Cover Across Western Northern American Rangelands for Representative Concentration Pathways (RCP) 4.5 and 8.5 Scenarios for the 2020s, 2050s, and 2080s Time-Periods

Climate change over the past century has altered vegetation community composition and species distributions across rangelands in the western United States. The scale and magnitude of climatic influences are largely unknown. We used fractional component cover data for rangeland functional groups and weather data from the 1985 to 2023 reference period in conjunction with soils and topography data to develop empirical models describing the spatio-temporal variation in component cover. To investigate the ramifications of future change across the western US, we extended models based on historical relationships over the reference period to model landscape effects based on future weather conditions from two emissions scenarios...

Tags: AB, AZ, Alberta, Arizona, Arizona Plateau, All tags... Black Hills, Blue Mountains, CA, CO, California, Canada, Colorado, Colorado Plateau, Columbia Plateau, Grand Canyon, Great Basin, Gunnison, ID, Idaho, Land Use Change, MT, Middle Rockies, Montana, ND, NE, NM, NV, Nebraska, Nevada, New Mexico, North Dakota, OR, Oregon, Prairie Provinces, Rocky Mountains, SD, SK, Saskatchewan, Snake River Plain, Sonoran Desert, South Dakota, Southwest Tablelands, Three Forks, USGS Science Data Catalog (SDC), UT, United States, Utah, WA, WY, Wasatch, Washington, Western US, Wyoming, Yellowstone, annual herbaceous, bare ground, biota, climate change, environment, geoscientificInformation, grass, grassland change, herbaceous, imageryBaseMapsEarthCover, litter, rangeland, rangeland management, sagebrush, shrub, shrubland, shrubland change, shrubland ecosystems, shrublands, terrestrial ecosystems, trends, vegetation, vegetation change, Fewer tags

Whooping crane stopover habitat use and migration movement data in relation to drought severity, 2010-2022

Wildlife species face threats from climate and land use change, which may exacerbate how extreme climatic events influence population persistence and biodiversity. Migratory waterbirds are especially vulnerable to hydrological drought via reduced availability of surface water habitats. We assessed how whooping cranes, an endangered species in the U.S. and Canada, modified habitat use and migration strategies during drought to understand this species’ resilience to changing conditions and adaptive capacity. The data included 8,555 night-roost sites used by 145 cranes, 2010–2022, under non-drought conditions, moderate drought, and extreme drought conditions.

Categories: Data; Tags: Alberta, Colorado, Ecology, Iowa, Kansas, All tags... Manitoba, Migratory birds, Minnesota, Missouri, Montana, Nebraska, North Dakota, Oklahoma, Saskatchewan, South Dakota, Texas, USGS Science Data Catalog (SDC), Wildlife Biology, biota, birds, environment, migration (organisms), plant and animal tagging, Fewer tags

USGS National Hydrography Dataset Best Resolution (NHD) for Hydrological Unit (HU) 8 - 17020019 (published 20231220) FileGDB

The National Hydrography Dataset (NHD) is a feature-based database that interconnects and uniquely identifies the stream segments or reaches that make up the nation's surface water drainage system. NHD data was originally developed at 1:100,000-scale and exists at that scale for the whole country. This high-resolution NHD, generally developed at 1:24,000/1:12,000 scale, adds detail to the original 1:100,000-scale NHD. (Data for Alaska, Puerto Rico and the Virgin Islands was developed at high-resolution, not 1:100,000 scale.) Local resolution NHD is being developed where partners and data exist. The NHD contains reach codes for networked features, flow direction, names, and centerline representations for areal water...

Tags: Administrative watershed units, Administrative watershed units, Alberta, Area of Complex Channels, Area to be submerged, All tags... Basin, Basin, Bay/Inlet, Boundaries, Boundary, Bridge, British Columbia, CA, Canada, Canal/Ditch, Coastline, Connector, Dam/Weir, Downloadable Data, Drainage areas for surface water, Drainageway, Esri File GeoDatabase 10, Estuary, FileGDB, Flow direction network, Flume, ForeShore, Gaging Station, Gate, HU-8, HU-8 Subbasin, HU10, HU12, HU14, HU16, HU2, HU4, HU6, HU8, HU8_17020019, HUC, Hazard Zone, Hydrographic, Hydrography, Hydrography, Hydrography, Hydrologic Unit Code, Hydrologic Units, Ice mass, Inundation Area, Levee, Line, Lock Chamber, Marsh, National Hydrography Dataset (NHD), National Hydrography Dataset (NHD) Best Resolution, National Hydrography Dataset (NHD) Best Resolution, Nonearthen Shore, Orthoimage, Playa, Point, PointEvent, Pond, Rapids, Rapids, Reach, Reach code, Reef, Region, Reservoir, Rock, Sea/Ocean, Sink/Rise, Sounding Datum Line, Special Use Zone, Special Use Zone Limit, Spillway, Stream, Stream/River, Sub-basin, Sub-region, Subbasin, Submerged Stream, Subregion, Subwatershed, Surface water systems, Swamp, Topographic, Tunnel, Underground Conduit, WBD, WBD, Wall, Wash, Water Intake Outflow, Waterfall, Watershed, Watershed Boundaries, Watershed Boundary Dataset, Watershed Boundary Dataset, Well, artificial path, boundaries, dams, drainage systems and characteristics, inlandWaters, lakes, ngda, rivers, Fewer tags

Decision Support Tools for Species Populations and Their Habitats Workshop: The EAGLE (Ecosystem Assessment, Geospatial Analysis, and Landscape Evaluations) System

This workshop introduced and demonstrated key concepts and a series of software tools, whichallow managers, biologists, and conservationists to efficiently evaluate predictors of wildlife space-use and generate spatial models based on that analysis.Specific content of the workshop: Access to free or low-cost remote sensing information on vegetation, climate, habitat metrics, disturbance, etc., in a useable format, including covariate datasets currently available or under development by the NASA Terrestrial Observation and Prediction System (TOPS) Explanation of how this information is derived, created, integrated, validated and matched with species data sets prior to analysis Demonstration of user-friendly computer...

Categories: Data, Project; Types: Map Service, OGC WFS Layer, OGC WMS Layer, OGC WMS Service; Tags: Academics & scientific researchers, Alberta, British Columbia, CO-2, CO-3, All tags... CO-3, CO-3, Climate Change, Colorado, Colorado, Data Management and Integration, Decision Support, Decision Support Tools, GNLCC, Goal 2: Conserve landscape connectivity, Goal 3: Maintain hydrologic regimes, Goal 4: Promote landscape-scale disturbances, ID-1, ID-1, ID-1, ID-2, ID-2, ID-2, Idaho, Idaho, Idaho, Idaho, Invasive Species, LCC Network Science Catalog, Land Use Change, MT-1, MT-1, MT-1, Montana, Montana, Montana, Montana, OR-2, OR-2, OR-2, Oregon, Oregon, Oregon, Oregon, Project, State agencies, Training/Outreach/Workshop, UT-1, UT-1, UT-1, Utah, Utah, Utah, Utah, WA-1, WA-1, WA-1, WA-2, WA-2, WA-2, WA-3, WA-3, WA-3, WA-4, WA-4, WA-4, WA-5, WA-5, WA-5, WA-8, WA-8, WA-8, WY-1, WY-1, WY-1, Washington, Washington, Washington, Washington, Wyoming, Wyoming, Wyoming, Wyoming, completed, environment, Fewer tags

Using the Conservation Registry as a visualization tool for the Great Northern Landscape Conservation Cooperative

Defenders staff, contractors and Great Northern Landscape Conservation Cooperative partners will build a portal on the Conservation Registry to visualize landscape scale plans and conservation projects that address the priorities of the program. The portal will integrate with GN LCCs existing project management tool, LC Map, to spatially display plans within the geographic area of the LCC, provide information about the plans, and link to planning documents. services and/or data imports will be programmed to facilitate efficient transfer of project data from LC Map and other agencies and organizations into the Registry. FY2012Objectives: Coordination with Heart of the Rockies (HotR) staff to identify focal area,...

Categories: Data, Project; Types: Map Service, OGC WFS Layer, OGC WMS Layer, OGC WMS Service; Tags: Academics & scientific researchers, Alberta, British Columbia, Climate Change, Connectivity, All tags... Conservation NGOs, Crown of the Continent, Data Management and Integration, Goal 2: Conserve landscape connectivity, Greater Yellowstone Ecosystem (GYE), High Divide, ID-1, ID-2, Idaho, Idaho, LCC Network Science Catalog, MT-1, Montana, Montana, OR-2, Oregon, Oregon, Project, Report, Sage-Steppe, WY-1, Washington, Website, Wyoming, Wyoming, completed, Fewer tags

USGS National Hydrography Dataset Best Resolution (NHD) for Hydrological Unit (HU) 8 - 09040003 (published 20231217) GeoPackage

The National Hydrography Dataset (NHD) is a feature-based database that interconnects and uniquely identifies the stream segments or reaches that make up the nation's surface water drainage system. NHD data was originally developed at 1:100,000-scale and exists at that scale for the whole country. This high-resolution NHD, generally developed at 1:24,000/1:12,000 scale, adds detail to the original 1:100,000-scale NHD. (Data for Alaska, Puerto Rico and the Virgin Islands was developed at high-resolution, not 1:100,000 scale.) Local resolution NHD is being developed where partners and data exist. The NHD contains reach codes for networked features, flow direction, names, and centerline representations for areal water...

Tags: Administrative watershed units, Administrative watershed units, Alberta, Area of Complex Channels, Area to be submerged, All tags... Basin, Basin, Bay/Inlet, Boundaries, Boundary, Bridge, British Columbia, CA, Canada, Canal/Ditch, Coastline, Connector, Dam/Weir, Downloadable Data, Drainage areas for surface water, Drainageway, Estuary, Flow direction network, Flume, ForeShore, Gaging Station, Gate, GeoPackage, HU-8, HU-8 Subbasin, HU10, HU12, HU14, HU16, HU2, HU4, HU6, HU8, HU8_09040003, HUC, Hazard Zone, Hydrographic, Hydrography, Hydrography, Hydrography, Hydrologic Unit Code, Hydrologic Units, Ice mass, Inundation Area, Levee, Line, Lock Chamber, Marsh, National Hydrography Dataset (NHD), National Hydrography Dataset (NHD) Best Resolution, National Hydrography Dataset (NHD) Best Resolution, Nonearthen Shore, Open Geospatial Consortium GeoPackage 1.2, Orthoimage, Playa, Point, PointEvent, Pond, Rapids, Rapids, Reach, Reach code, Reef, Region, Reservoir, Rock, Sea/Ocean, Sink/Rise, Sounding Datum Line, Special Use Zone, Special Use Zone Limit, Spillway, Stream, Stream/River, Sub-basin, Sub-region, Subbasin, Submerged Stream, Subregion, Subwatershed, Surface water systems, Swamp, Topographic, Tunnel, Underground Conduit, WBD, WBD, Wall, Wash, Water Intake Outflow, Waterfall, Watershed, Watershed Boundaries, Watershed Boundary Dataset, Watershed Boundary Dataset, Well, artificial path, boundaries, dams, drainage systems and characteristics, inlandWaters, lakes, ngda, rivers, Fewer tags

USGS National Hydrography Dataset Best Resolution (NHD) for Hydrological Unit (HU) 8 - 17010107 (published 20231220) GeoPackage

The National Hydrography Dataset (NHD) is a feature-based database that interconnects and uniquely identifies the stream segments or reaches that make up the nation's surface water drainage system. NHD data was originally developed at 1:100,000-scale and exists at that scale for the whole country. This high-resolution NHD, generally developed at 1:24,000/1:12,000 scale, adds detail to the original 1:100,000-scale NHD. (Data for Alaska, Puerto Rico and the Virgin Islands was developed at high-resolution, not 1:100,000 scale.) Local resolution NHD is being developed where partners and data exist. The NHD contains reach codes for networked features, flow direction, names, and centerline representations for areal water...

Tags: Administrative watershed units, Administrative watershed units, Alberta, Area of Complex Channels, Area to be submerged, All tags... Basin, Basin, Bay/Inlet, Boundaries, Boundary, Bridge, British Columbia, CA, Canada, Canal/Ditch, Coastline, Connector, Dam/Weir, Downloadable Data, Drainage areas for surface water, Drainageway, Estuary, Flow direction network, Flume, ForeShore, Gaging Station, Gate, GeoPackage, HU-8, HU-8 Subbasin, HU10, HU12, HU14, HU16, HU2, HU4, HU6, HU8, HU8_17010107, HUC, Hazard Zone, Hydrographic, Hydrography, Hydrography, Hydrography, Hydrologic Unit Code, Hydrologic Units, Ice mass, Inundation Area, Levee, Line, Lock Chamber, Marsh, National Hydrography Dataset (NHD), National Hydrography Dataset (NHD) Best Resolution, National Hydrography Dataset (NHD) Best Resolution, Nonearthen Shore, Open Geospatial Consortium GeoPackage 1.2, Orthoimage, Playa, Point, PointEvent, Pond, Rapids, Rapids, Reach, Reach code, Reef, Region, Reservoir, Rock, Sea/Ocean, Sink/Rise, Sounding Datum Line, Special Use Zone, Special Use Zone Limit, Spillway, Stream, Stream/River, Sub-basin, Sub-region, Subbasin, Submerged Stream, Subregion, Subwatershed, Surface water systems, Swamp, Topographic, Tunnel, Underground Conduit, WBD, WBD, Wall, Wash, Water Intake Outflow, Waterfall, Watershed, Watershed Boundaries, Watershed Boundary Dataset, Watershed Boundary Dataset, Well, artificial path, boundaries, dams, drainage systems and characteristics, inlandWaters, lakes, ngda, rivers, Fewer tags

Rangeland Condition Monitoring Assessment and Projection (RCMAP) Shrub Fractional Component Time-Series Across Western North America from 1985-2023

The RCMAP (Rangeland Condition Monitoring Assessment and Projection) dataset quantifies the percent cover of rangeland components across western North America using Landsat imagery from 1985-2023. The RCMAP product suite consists of ten fractional components: annual herbaceous, bare ground, herbaceous, litter, non-sagebrush shrub, perennial herbaceous, sagebrush, shrub, tree, and shrub height in addition to the temporal trends of each component. Several enhancements were made to the RCMAP process relative to prior generations. First, high-resolution training was revised using an improved neural-net classifier and modelling approach. These data serve as foundation to the RCMAP approach. The training database was...

Tags: AB, AZ, Alberta, Arizona, Arizona Plateau, All tags... Black Hills, Blue Mountains, CA, CO, California, Canada, Chihuahuan, Chihuahuan Desert, Colorado, Colorado Plateau, Columbia Plateau, Desert, Grand Canyon, Great Basin, Gunnison, ID, Idaho, MT, Mediterranean California, Middle Rockies, Mojave, Montana, ND, NE, NM, NV, Nebraska, Nevada, New Mexico, North Dakota, North Plains, Northern Great Plains, Northern Great Salt Lake Desert, Northern Mountainous, Northern Rocky Mountains, OR, Oregon, Plains, Plateau, Prairie Provinces, Rocky Mountains, SD, SK, Saskatchewan, Sierra Nevada, Sonoran, Sonoran Desert, South Dakota, Southern Great Salt Lake Desert, Southern Rocky Mountains, Southwest Tablelands, TX, Texas, The Rockies, Three Forks, UT, United States, Utah, WA, WY, Wasatch, Washington, Western US, Wyoming, Wyoming Basin, Yellowstone, annual herbaceous, back-in-time, bare ground, big sagebrush, biota, climate change, environment, geoscientificInformation, grass, grassland change, herbaceous, imageryBaseMapsEarthCover, litter, mts, rangeland, rangeland management, sagebrush, shrub, shrub height, shrubland, shrubland change, shrubland ecosystems, shrublands, terrestrial ecosystems, time series, trends, vegetation, vegetation change, vegetation height, Fewer tags

Rangeland Condition Monitoring Assessment and Projection (RCMAP) Non Sagebrush Shrub Fractional Component Time-Series Across Western North America from 1985-2023

The RCMAP (Rangeland Condition Monitoring Assessment and Projection) dataset quantifies the percent cover of rangeland components across western North America using Landsat imagery from 1985-2023. The RCMAP product suite consists of ten fractional components: annual herbaceous, bare ground, herbaceous, litter, non-sagebrush shrub, perennial herbaceous, sagebrush, shrub, tree, and shrub height in addition to the temporal trends of each component. Several enhancements were made to the RCMAP process relative to prior generations. First, high-resolution training was revised using an improved neural-net classifier and modelling approach. These data serve as foundation to the RCMAP approach. The training database was...

Tags: AB, AZ, Alberta, Arizona, Arizona Plateau, All tags... Black Hills, Blue Mountains, CA, CO, California, Canada, Chihuahuan, Chihuahuan Desert, Colorado, Colorado Plateau, Columbia Plateau, Desert, Grand Canyon, Great Basin, Gunnison, ID, Idaho, MT, Mediterranean California, Middle Rockies, Mojave, Montana, ND, NE, NM, NV, Nebraska, Nevada, New Mexico, North Dakota, North Plains, Northern Great Plains, Northern Great Salt Lake Desert, Northern Mountainous, Northern Rocky Mountains, OR, Oregon, Plains, Plateau, Prairie Provinces, Rocky Mountains, SD, SK, Saskatchewan, Sierra Nevada, Sonoran, Sonoran Desert, South Dakota, Southern Great Salt Lake Desert, Southern Rocky Mountains, Southwest Tablelands, TX, Texas, The Rockies, Three Forks, UT, United States, Utah, WA, WY, Wasatch, Washington, Western US, Wyoming, Wyoming Basin, Yellowstone, annual herbaceous, back-in-time, bare ground, big sagebrush, biota, climate change, environment, geoscientificInformation, grass, grassland change, herbaceous, imageryBaseMapsEarthCover, litter, mts, rangeland, rangeland management, sagebrush, shrub, shrub height, shrubland, shrubland change, shrubland ecosystems, shrublands, terrestrial ecosystems, time series, trends, vegetation, vegetation change, vegetation height, Fewer tags

Conserving an Intact and Connected GNLCC Landscape

In May 2014, the GNLCC Steering Committee approved two pilot projects explore approaches to landscape-scale coordination to enhance science-based management across the GNLCC. The two ‘Shared Landscape Outcomes’ pilots were designed to assess and focus on specific pairs of a GNLCC Goal and a priority landscape stressor (as defined in the Strategic Conservation Framework) and focus the approach at the entire GNLCC scale. The two pilot projects focused on (1) the Connectivity goal and Land Use Change stressor (described here) and (2) the Aquatic Integrity goal and Invasives stressor and (see: https://www.fws.gov/science/catalog )Connectivity Pilot:Wildlife species are becoming increasingly isolated in patches of habitat,...

Categories: Data, Project; Types: Map Service, OGC WFS Layer, OGC WMS Layer, OGC WMS Service; Tags: Alberta, Aquatic Connectivity, British Columbia, Bull Trout, Cascadia, All tags... Climate Change, Colorado, Columbia Basin, Connectivity, Conservation Planning, Data Acquisition and Development, Datasets/Database, Federal resource managers, Goal 1: Maintain large, intact landscapes, Goal 2: Conserve landscape connectivity, Grizzly Bear, Idaho, Informing Conservation Delivery, Invasive Species, LCC Network Science Catalog, Land Use Change, Montana, Oregon, Project, Pronghorn, Regional & county planners, Report, Riparian Areas, Rocky Mountain, Sage Shrub/Grassland, Sage-Steppe, State agencies, Utah, Washington, Watershed Uplands, Wolverine, Woodland, Wyoming, environment, onGoing, Fewer tags

HUC12-Monthly Summaries

This data release contains historical SnowModel (Liston and Elder, 2006) output for the Crown of the Continent and surrounding areas in Montana and Idaho, USA; and Alberta and British Columbia, Canada from September 1, 1981 through August 31, 2020. Fifteen daily variables were simulated or derived for this release: (1) snow water equivalent (swed), (2) liquid precipitation (rpre), (3) solid precipitation (spre), (4) albedo (albd), (5) glacial ice melt (glmt), (6) total precipitation (prec), (7) runoff (roff), (8) snow covered area (sca), (9) snow density (sden), (10) snowmelt (smlt), (11) snow depth (snod), (12) snow sublimation (ssub), (13) air temperature (tair), (14) wind speed (wspd), and (15) wind direction...

Categories: Data; Types: Downloadable, Map Service, OGC WFS Layer, OGC WMS Layer, Shapefile; Tags: Alberta, British Columbia, Crown of the Continent, Glacier National Park, Idaho, All tags... Montana, Northern Rocky Mountains, Waterton Lakes National Park, climatologyMeteorologyAtmosphere, precipitation (atmospheric), runoff, snow, snow and ice cover, snowmelt, snowpack, Fewer tags

Providing High Resolution Connectivity Maps for Greater Sage-grouse in the Great Northern Landscape Using State of the Art Genomics

Greater sage-grouse genetic connectivity is essential to the species persistence across the Great Northern landscape; without such connectivity the greater sage-grouse may suffer the same fate as many other related species of grouse, which disappeared from the middle and eastern portion of the United States due to loss of habitat coupled with inbreeding depression. To prevent isolation in the face of energy development and other landscape changes it is essential that we evaluate both fine-scale connectivity and assign relative importance to different leks (breeding populations) on the landscape. This massive task cannot be accomplished with existing tools and maps; fortunately, advanced molecular genomic analyses...

Categories: Data, Project; Types: Map Service, OGC WFS Layer, OGC WMS Layer, OGC WMS Service; Tags: 2012, AZ-1, Academics & scientific researchers, Alberta, Arizona, All tags... Arizona, CA-1, CA-1, CA-1, CA-1, CA-4, CA-4, CA-4, CA-4, CA-8, CA-8, CA-8, CA-8, CO-2, CO-2, CO-2, CO-2, CO-3, CO-3, CO-3, CO-3, CO-4, CO-4, CO-4, CO-4, CO-5, CO-5, CO-5, CO-5, California, California, California, California, California, Climate Change, Co, Co, Co, Co, Colorado, Colorado Plateau Management Zone, Columbia Basin Management Zone, Data Acquisition and Development, FY 2012, Federal resource managers, Goal 2: Conserve landscape connectivity, Great Plains Management Zone, Greater Sage-Grouse, ID-1, ID-1, ID-1, ID-1, ID-2, ID-2, ID-2, ID-2, Idaho, Informing Conservation Delivery, LCC Network Science Catalog, Land Use Change, MT-1, MT-1, MT-1, MT-1, Map, Methodology/Protocol, Monitoring, Montana, ND-1, ND-1, ND-1, ND-1, NE-3, NE-3, NE-3, NE-3, NM-3, NM-3, NM-3, NM-3, NV-2, NV-2, NV-2, NV-2, NV-4, NV-4, NV-4, NV-4, Nebraska, Nevada, New Mexico, North Dakota, Northern Great Basin Management Zone, OR-2, OR-2, OR-2, OR-2, OR-4, OR-4, OR-4, OR-4, Oregon, Project, Publication, Rocky Mountain, SD-1, SD-1, SD-1, SD-1, Sage Shrub/Grassland, Sage-Steppe, Saskatchewan, Snake River Plain Management Zone, South Dakota, Southern Great Basin Management Zone, State agencies, UT-1, UT-1, UT-1, UT-1, UT-2, UT-2, UT-2, UT-2, UT-3, UT-3, UT-3, UT-3, UT-4, UT-4, UT-4, UT-4, Utah, WA-3, WA-3, WA-3, WA-3, WA-4, WA-4, WA-4, WA-4, WA-5, WA-5, WA-5, WA-5, WA-8, WA-8, WA-8, WA-8, WY-1, WY-1, WY-1, WY-1, Washington, Wyoming, Wyoming Basins Management Zone, completed, environment, Fewer tags

Developing Management Guidelines for Creating Resilient Whitebark Pine Ecosystems in the Northern Rocky Mountains Using Spatial Simulation Modeling

Landscape simulation modeling will be used to develop detailed management guidelines for restoring and sustaining whitebark pine under future climates, accounting for the principal stressors that threaten its persistence (exotic disease infections, mountain pine beetles, and fire exclusion policies). We will build on existing work, including the 2012 publication A Range-Wide Restoration Strategy for Whitebark Pine Forests and existing simulation areas within critical whitebark pine habitat. This project will create a robust and trans-boundary set of management tools for creating resistant and resilient whitebark pine forests within the Rocky Mountains, USA and Canada.FY2013Objectives:We propose to use FireBGCv2...

Categories: Data, Project; Types: Map Service, OGC WFS Layer, OGC WMS Layer, OGC WMS Service; Tags: Alberta, British Columbia, Climate Change, Conservation Plan/Design/Framework, Conservation Planning, All tags... Decision Support, Federal resource managers, Goal 4: Promote landscape-scale disturbances, Grizzly Bear, ID-1, ID-2, ID-2, ID-2, ID-2, Idaho, Idaho, Invasive Species, LCC Network Science Catalog, MT-1, MT-1, MT-1, MT-1, Montana, Montana, Montana, Montana, Montana, Northern Rocky Mountain White Bark Pine Range, OR-2, OR-2, OR-2, OR-2, Oregon, Oregon, Oregon, Oregon, Oregon, Policy makers & regulators, Presentation, Project, Publication, Rocky Mountain, State agencies, WA-5, WA-5, WA-5, WA-5, WY-1, WY-1, WY-1, WY-1, Washington, Washington, Washington, Washington, Washington, Whitebark Pine, Wyoming, Wyoming, Wyoming, Wyoming, Wyoming, completed, environment, Fewer tags

Connecting Tribal and First Nation Adaptive Management and Climate Related Activities in the Crown of the Continent

The project will establish contact with interested parties in each tribe or first nation within the Crown of the Continent to collect information on all relevant activities and research regarding climate and adaptive management within each tribal nation. We will coordinate a meeting of all interested tribal contacts and coordinate tribal activities with other efforts in the Crown including the Crown Managers Partnership, the Crown of the Continent Conservation Initiative, and the Crown Roundtable Adaptive Management Initiative.Objectives:Establish a contact on climate adaptation management in each interested first nation/tribe or related organization in the Crown of the Continent.Develop a white paper that summarizes...

Categories: Data, Project; Types: Map Service, OGC WFS Layer, OGC WMS Layer, OGC WMS Service; Tags: Adaptive Management, Alberta, British Columbia, Climate Change, Conservation Planning, All tags... Crown of the Continent, Datasets/Database, Goal 2: Conserve landscape connectivity, Goal 5: Sustain local, place-based land use values, LCC Network Science Catalog, MT-1, Montana, Montana, Project, Regional & county planners, Report, Traditional Ecological Knowledge, Tribes, Vulnerability Assessment, completed, environment, Fewer tags