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Filters Contacts (Less) U.S. Geological Survey David J A Wood U.S. Geological Survey - ScienceBase Earth Resources Observation and Science (EROS) Center U.S. Geological Survey Ecosystems FRESC Metadata Coordinator Stephen Boyte California Landscape Conservation Cooperative Northern Rocky Mountain Science Center Forest and Rangeland Ecosystem Science Center Core Science Systems Lief A Wiechman Core Science Systems David A. Pyke Troy A. Wirth Jesslyn Brown Kory Postma Brett Bunde Ecosystems Fort Collins Science Center Matthew B Rigge Susan K Kemp Erik A Beever Ashley L Whipple Trenton D Benedict Dinesh Shrestha Todd M Preston GS-NOROCK Data Steward Hua Shi California LCC Data Manager Defenders of Wildlife FORT Data Management Frank R. Quamen Jolie M. Pollet Kevin Doherty Krista A. Gollnick Kristin B Byrd Kristy Swartz LCC Network Data Steward Land Resources Lori Makarick Matt Kales Matthew Rigge Patricia A. Deibert Paul C Stoy Scott L Powell Thomas J. Rodhouse Tomer Y. Hasson U.S. Geological Survey - ScienceBase More... View Results as: JSON ATOM CSV

Forest and Rangeland Ecosystem Science Center (FRESC) The Forest and Rangeland Ecosystem Science Center 's mission is to provide scientific understanding and the technology needed to support sound management and conservation of our nation's natural resources, with emphasis on western ecosystems. The scientists from FRESC capitalize on their diverse expertise to answer critically important scientific questions shaped by the equally diverse environments of the western United States. FRESC scientists collaborate with each other and with partners to provide rigorous, objective, and timely information and guidance for the management and conservation of biological systems in the West and worldwide. Research activities are concentrated in Washington, Oregon, Idaho, Nevada,... Categories: Data; Tags: Animals, Aquatic, Biology, Columbia Plateau, Conservation, All tags... Data, Disturbance, Ecology, Ecosystem, Environment, FRESC, Forest, GIS, Great Basin, Intermountain West, Olympic Peninsula, Pacific Northwest, Plants, Rangeland, Research, Restoration, Riparian, Science, U.S. Geological Survey, USGS, Wetland, Wildlife, information management, Fewer tags UAV based vegetation classification results and input NDVI, vegetation height, and texture datasets for two Montana rangeland sites in 2018 Unpiloted aerial system (UAS) flight campaigns were conducted at two rangeland sites in Southwestern Montana during the 2018 growing season to classify vegetation and landcover types. A total of nine flights were conducted at the Argenta site and seven at the Virginia City site. To align images in space and time, we used four-dimensional structure from motion (4D SfM) and continued with processing for each flight date based on the full suite of images aligned for the entire growing season. We created dense point clouds, digital terrain models (bare earth), digital elevation models (including vegetation), and orthorectified images for each flight date at each site. We used the orthoimages to calculate the Normalized... Categories: Data; Tags: Ecology, Montana, Remote Sensing, UAS, USGS Science Data Catalog (SDC), All tags... Unpiloted aerial vehicle, biota, elevation, environment, phenology, rangeland, remote sensing, vegetation, Fewer tags Raster representing climate resilient core sagebrush and growth opportunity areas on federal lands This dataset contains a raster representing current (2017-2020) core sagebrush, growth opportunity areas, and other rangelands on tribal and federal lands that are estimated to be climate resilient into the future (2030-2060). We determined climate-resiliency by comparing current (2017-2020) core sagebrush, growth opportunity areas, and other rangelands to estimated future (2030-2060) conditions of core and growth opportunity areas under mid-century climate change (Representative Concentration Pathway 8.5) conditions (Doherty et al. 2022). The Department of the Interior (DOI) Sagebrush Keystone Initiative (KI) team worked with partners to identify areas within the sagebrush biome for strategic investments in conservation... Categories: Data; Types: Downloadable, GeoTIFF, Map Service, Raster; Tags: California, Colorado, Conservation, Idaho, Montana, All tags... Nevada, Oregon, Rangeland, Restoration, Sagebrush, Utah, Wyoming, biota, ecosystems, environment, natural resource management, terrestrial ecosystems, western United States, Fewer tags Using Targeted Training Data to Develop Site Potential for the Upper Colorado River Basin from 2000 - 2018 Defining site potential for an area establishes its possible long-term vegetation growth productivity in a relatively undisturbed state, providing a realistic reference point for ecosystem performance. Modeling and mapping site potential helps to measure and identify naturally occurring variations on the landscape as opposed to variations caused by land management activities or disturbances (Rigge et al. 2020). We integrated remotely sensed data (250-m enhanced Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer (eMODIS) Normalized Difference Vegetation Index (NDVI) (https://earthexplorer.usgs.gov/)) with land cover, biogeophysical (i.e., soils, topography) and climate data into regression-tree software (Cubist®). We... Categories: Data; Types: Downloadable, GeoTIFF, Map Service, Raster; Tags: Arid, Arizona, Colorado, Ecology, Geography, All tags... Grass, LCMAP, Land Cover Monitoring Assessment & Projection, MTBS, Machine learning, Modeling, Monitoring Trends in Burn Severity, NLCD, National Land Cover Database, New Mexico, POLARIS Soils, PRISM Normals (1981 - 2010), Rangeland, Regression tree, Remote Sensing, Semiarid, Shrub, Spatial analysis, USGS Science Data Catalog (SDC), United States, Upper Colorado River Basin, Utah, West, Wyoming, geoscientificInformation, western United States, Fewer tags Rangeland Condition Monitoring Assessment and Projection (RCMAP) Fractional Component Time-Series Across the Western U.S. 1985-2020 The RCMAP (Rangeland Condition Monitoring Assessment and Projection) dataset quantifies the percent cover of rangeland components across the western U.S. using Landsat imagery from 1985-2020. The RCMAP product suite consists of eight fractional components: annual herbaceous, bare ground, herbaceous, litter, non-sagebrush shrub, perennial herbaceous, sagebrush, shrub and rule-based error maps including the temporal trends of each component. Several enhancements were made to the RCMAP process relative to prior generations. We used an updated version of the 2016 base training data, with a more aggressive forest mask and reduced shrub and sagebrush cover bias in pinyon-juniper woodlands. We pooled training data in areas... Categories: Data; Tags: AZ, Arizona, Arizona Plateau, Black Hills, Blue Mountains, All tags... CA, CO, California, 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, Rocky Mountains, SD, Sierra Nevada, Sonoran, Sonoran Desert, South Dakota, Southern Great Salt Lake Desert, Southern Rocky Mountains, Southwest Tablelands, TX, Texas, The Rockies, Three Forks, USGS Science Data Catalog (SDC), 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, shrubland, shrubland change, shrubland ecosystems, shrublands, terrestrial ecosystems, time series, trends, vegetation, vegetation change, Fewer tags Compilation of Studies Assessing Post Wildfire Seeding of Rangelands Worldwide, 1965-2010 Mitigation of ecological damage caused by rangeland wildfires has historically been an issue restricted to the western United States. It has focused on conservation of ecosystem function through reducing soil erosion and spread of invasive plants. Effectiveness of mitigation treatments has been debated recently. We searched for literature on postfire seeding of rangelands worldwide. Literature databases searched included SCOPUS, Dissertation Abstracts, Forest Science, Tree search, Web of Science, Google Scholar, and science.gov. Search terms within publications included fire or wildfire in combination with seeding, rehabilitation, restoration, revegetation, stabilization, chaining, disking, drilling, invasives,... Categories: Data; Types: Citation; Tags: Ecology, Land Use Change, USGS Science Data Catalog (SDC), chaining, cheatgrass, All tags... disking, drilling, fire, grassland, invasives, literature review, medusahead, meta-analysis, non-native, rangeland, rehabilitation, restoration, revegetation, sagebrush, seeding, soil erosion, stabilization, weeds, wildfire, worldwide, Fewer tags Model performance and output variables for phenological events across land cover types in the Northwestern Plains, 1989-2014 Many aspects of recurring plant developmental events – vegetation phenology – are measured by remote sensing. By consistently measuring the timing and magnitude of the growing season, it is possible to study the complex relationships among drivers of the seasonal cycle of vegetation, including legacy conditions. We studied the role of current and legacy climate, and contextual factors on the land surface phenology of the U.S. Northern Great Plains. Specifically, we used annual and seasonal climate variables (e.g., temperature, precipitation, growing degree days, and vapor pressure deficit) covering the current year and the past four years derived from the PRISM climate dataset. We also included soils, disturbance,... Categories: Data; Tags: Ecology, Montana, Nebraska, North Dakota, Northern Great Plains, All tags... Remote Sensing, South Dakota, USGS Science Data Catalog (SDC), Wyoming, biota, environment, legacy climate, phenology, random forest, rangeland, remote sensing, vegetation, Fewer tags National Land Cover Database (NLCD) 2016 Shrubland Fractional Components for the Western U.S. (ver. 3.0, July 2020) Quantifying Western U.S. shrublands as a series of fractional components with remote sensing provides a new way to understand these changing ecosystems. The USGS NLCD team in collaboration with the BLM has produced the most comprehensive remote sensing-based quantification of Western U.S. shrublands to date. Nine shrubland ecosystem components, including percent shrub, sagebrush (Artemisia spp.), big sagebrush, herbaceous, annual herbaceous, litter, and bare ground cover, along with sagebrush and shrub heights, were quantified at 30-m resolution by mapping region. Each region required extensive ground measurement for model training and validation, two scales of remote sensing data from commercial high-resolution... Categories: Data, Data Release - Revised; Tags: AZ, Arizona, Arizona Plateau, Black Hills, Blue Mountains, All tags... CA, CO, California, Chihuahuan Desert, Colorado, Colorado Plateau, Columbia Plateau, Grand Canyon, Great Basin, Gunnison, ID, Idaho, MT, Middle Rockies, Montana, ND, NE, NM, NV, Nebraska, Nevada, New Mexico, North Dakota, Northern Mountainous, OR, Oregon, Rocky Mountains, SD, SageDAT-data, Sonoran Desert, South Dakota, Southwest Tablelands, TX, Texas, Three Forks, USGS Science Data Catalog (SDC), UT, United States, Utah, WA, WY, Wasatch, Washington, Western US, Wyoming, Yellowstone, annual herbaceous, bare ground, big sagebrush, biota, environment, geoscientificInformation, grass, herbaceous, imageryBaseMapsEarthCover, litter, rangeland, sagebrush, shrub, shrubland, shrubland ecosystems, shrublands, terrestrial ecosystems, vegetation, Fewer tags Climate Change/Land Use Change Scenarios for Habitat Threat Assessments on California Rangelands Why Rangelands: The Central Valley of California, the surrounding foothills and the interior Coast Range include over 18 million acres of grassland. Most of this land is privately owned and managed for livestock production. Because grasslands are found in some of California’s fastest-growing counties, they are severely threatened by land conversion and development. In addition climate change stresses grasslands by potentially changing water availability and species distributions.Maintaining a ranching landscape can greatly support biodiversity conservation in the California Landscape Conservation Cooperative (LCC) region. In addition ranches generate multiple ecosystem services—defined as human benefits provided... Categories: Data, Project; Tags: 2011, 2012, 2013, Applications and Tools, CA, All tags... CA Central Valley, California Central Valley, California Landscape Conservation Cooperative, Coastal, Conservation NGOs, Decision Support, Decision support, Federal, Grassland, LCC, LCC Network Science Catalog, Map, Multiple, Population & Habitat Evaluation/Projection, Population and Habitat Evaluation/Projection, Private land owners, Project, Rangeland, Science Project, Shrubland, Southwest CSC, State agencies, Training/Outreach/Workshop, acquisition, bcm, birds, c sequestration, carbon, chaparral, completed, conservation, corridor, decision support, downscale, economic, education, environment, fish, fore-sce, fragmentation, grazing, hotspots, invertebrates, land use change, landuse, livestock, management, map, model, multiple, oak woodland, oaks, on-line, on-line tool, outreach, rangelands, scenario, scenarios, stakeholder, stream, urbanization, water, web-based, workshop, Fewer tags Compilation of BLM Monitoring Reports Assessing Post Wildfire Seeding of Rangelands, 2001-2009 Post-fire rehabilitation seeding in the U.S. Intermountain West, primarily conducted by the Bureau of Land Management, is designed to reduce the risk of erosion and weed invasion while increasing desirable plant cover. Seeding effectiveness is typically monitored for three years following treatment, after which a closeout report is prepared. We evaluated 220 third-year closeout reports describing 214 aerial and 113 drill seedings implemented after wildfires from 2001 through 2006. Each treatment was assigned a qualitative success rating of good, fair, poor, or failure based on information in the reports. Seeding success varied by both treatment (aerial or drill) and year. Aerial seedings were rated 13.6% good, 18.3%... Categories: Data; Types: Citation; Tags: Ecology, Land Use Change, USGS Science Data Catalog (SDC), chaining, cheatgrass, All tags... disking, drilling, fire, grassland, invasives, literature review, medusahead, meta-analysis, non-native, rangeland, rehabilitation, restoration, revegetation, sagebrush, seeding, soil erosion, stabilization, weeds, wildfire, worldwide, Fewer tags