Critical Habitat Mapper, Final Critical Habitat for Threatened and Endangered Species, USFWS

This is a web map service from the USFWS. It contains multiple layers related to final critical habitat for threatened and endangered species. Critical habitat are areas considered essential for the conservation of a listed species. These datasets include both line and polygon features.More information can be found here: http://criticalhabitat.fws.gov/crithab/

Tags: critical habitat, endangered, fws, threatened, usfws

EnviroAtlas - Clean and Plentiful Water Metrics for the Conterminous United States

This EnviroAtlas web service supports research and online mapping activities related to EnviroAtlas (https://www.epa.gov/enviroatlas). The Clean and Plentiful Water category in this web service includes layers illustrating the ecosystems and natural resources that filter and regulate water, the need or demand for clean and plentiful water, the impacts associated with water quality, and factors that place stress on water quality and supply. EnviroAtlas allows the user to interact with a web-based, easy-to-use, mapping application to view and analyze multiple ecosystem services for the conterminous United States. Additional descriptive information about each attribute in this web service is located within each web...

Types: Citation; Tags: 12-digit HUCs, Agriculture, Air, Alabama, Alaska, All tags... Arizona, Arkansas, Austin, TX, Biodiversity, Biology, Biophysical, Biota, Boundaries, California, Census Block Groups, Cleanup, Climate, Colorado, Communities, Compliance, Connecticut, Conservation, Contaminant, Delaware, Demand for Ecosystem Services, Demographics, Detroit, MI, Disaster, Drinking Water, Drivers of Change - Ecosystem Services, Durham, NC, Ecology, Economy, Ecosystem, Ecosystem, Ecosystem Services, Elevation, Emergency, Endangered, Energy, EnviroAtlas, Environment, Environment, Environmental Atlas, Environmental Justice, Estuary, Exposure, Facilities, Florida, Food, Fresno, CA, Georgia, Green Infrastructure, Green Space, Ground Water, Habitat, Hawaii, Hazards, Health, Human, Human Well-being, Idaho, Illinois, Impact, Imperiled, Indiana, Indicator, Indoor Air, Inspections, Iowa, Kansas, Kentucky, Land, Land Cover, Louisiana, Maine, Management, Marine, Maryland, Massachusetts, Michigan, Milwaukee, WI, Minnesota, Mississippi, Missouri, Modeling, Monitoring, Montana, Natural Resources, Nebraska, Nevada, New Hampshire, New Jersey, New Mexico, New York, North Carolina, North Dakota, Ohio, Oklahoma, Oregon, Pennsylvania, Permits, Pesticides, Phoenix, AZ, Portland, ME, Portland, OR, Potential for Change - Ecosystem Services, Protected Lands, Quality, Radiation, Recreation, Regulatory, Remediation, Response, Rhode Island, Riparian, Risk, Sites, Society, Soils, South Carolina, South Dakota, Spills, Structure, Supply of Ecosystem Services, Surface Water, Sustainability, Tampa Bay, FL, Tennessee, Texas, Threatened, Toxics, Transportation, United States, Utah, Utilities, Vermont, Virginia, Washington, Washington DC, Waste, Water, West Virginia, Wetlands, Wisconsin, Wyoming, environment, Fewer tags

Desert Renewable Energy Conservation Plan

The Desert Renewable Energy Conservation Plan (DRECP), a major component of California's renewable energy planning efforts, will help provide effective protection and conservation of desert ecosystems while allowing for the appropriate development of renewable energy projects. The DRECP is focused on the desert regions and adjacent lands of seven California counties - Imperial, Inyo, Kern, Los Angeles, Riverside, San Bernardino, and San Diego. It is being prepared through an unprecedented collaborative effort between the California Energy Commission, California Department of Fish and Wildlife, the U.S. Bureau of Land Management, and the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service also known as the Renewable Energy Action Team....

Categories: Publication; Types: Citation, Map Service, OGC WFS Layer, OGC WMS Layer, OGC WMS Service; Tags: English, GIS, OHV, US, bird, All tags... burro, development, ecoregion, endangered, energy, erosion, fish, grassland, horse, land cover, mammal, management, map, ownership, plan, plant, protected area, rare, recreation, renewable, reptile, scrub, shrub, threatened, threats, vegetation, wildlife, Fewer tags

Natural Resource Condition Assessments

What are current conditions for important park natural resources? What are the critical data and knowledge gaps? What are some of the factors that are influencing park resource conditions? Natural Resource Condition Assessments (NRCAs) evaluate and report on the above for a subset of important natural resources in national park units (hereafter, parks). Focal study resources and indicators are selected on a park-by-park basis, guided by use of structured resource assessment and reporting frameworks. Considerations include park resource setting and enabling legislation (what are this park's most important natural resources?) and presently available data and expertise (what can be evaluated at this time?). In addition...

Categories: Data; Types: ArcGIS REST Map Service, Map Service, OGC WFS Layer, OGC WMS Layer, OGC WMS Service; Tags: Chihuahuan Desert, English, GIS, Madrean, Mojave Desert, All tags... Sonoran Desert, US, agriculture, amphibian, assessment, biodiversity, bird, climate, connectivity, contamination, development, ecoregion, endangered, energy, erosion, fire, grassland, grazing, groundwater, invasive, inventory, invertebrate, land cover, mammal, management, map, mining, model, monitoring, oil, plant, priority, protected area, rare, recreation, renewable, reptile, research, riparian, river, road, scrub, shrub, soil, spring, stream, threat, threatened, topography, vegetation, vulnerability, water, watershed, wetland, wildlife, Fewer tags

Managing Changing Landscapes in the Southwestern United States

Natural landscapes in the Southwestern United States are changing. In recent decades, rising temperatures and drought have led to drier conditions, contributed to large-scale ecological impacts, and affected many plant and animal species across the region. The current and future trajectory of climate change underscores the need for managers and conservation professionals to understand the impacts of these patterns on natural resources. In this regional assessment of the Southwest Climate Change Initiative, we evaluate changes in annual average temperatures from 1951–2006 across major habitats and large watersheds and compare these changes to the number of species of conservation concern that are found within these...

Categories: Publication; Types: Citation, Map Service, OGC WFS Layer, OGC WMS Layer, OGC WMS Service; Tags: Chihuahuan Desert, English, Madrean, Mojave Desert, Sonoran Desert, All tags... US, assessment, biodiversity, bird, climate, ecoregion, endangered, grassland, groundwater, mammal, management, map, model, monitoring, ownership, plant, priority, protected area, rare, research, resilience, restoration, riparian, river, shrub, stream, threat, threatened, vulnerability, water, watershed, wetland, wildlife, Fewer tags

Wind and Wildlife Assessment Tool

Welcome to the Wind and Wildlife Landscape Assessment Tool (LAT), a collaboration organized by the American Wind Wildlife Institute (AWWI) and The Nature Conservancy (TNC). The LAT is designed as a landscape-level planning tool to identify sensitive wildlife habitat and areas that are likely to have low wildlife risk where wind energy development could be prioritized. Although the siting of individual wind energy projects will require on-the-ground surveys to verify data shown here, our hope is that this tool will provide stakeholders with information that facilitates the siting of wind energy in areas with minimal impacts to wildlife, as well as the development of conservation plans, monitoring plans and mitigation...

Types: Map Service, OGC WFS Layer, OGC WMS Layer, OGC WMS Service; Tags: English, GIS, US, agriculture, amphibian, All tags... assessment, bird, contamination, development, endangered, energy, fish, grazing, invertebrate, mammal, map, mining, oil, plant, priority, protected area, rare, renewable, reptile, threat, threatened, vegetation, wildlife, Fewer tags

Provisional Tennessee State Wildlife Action Plan Potential Urban Growth

Provisional Tennessee State Wildlife Action Plan (TN-SWAP) terrestrial habitat priorities versus results of the population growth model developed by the Tennessee Chapter of The Nature Conservancy, 2008, converted to percent projected developed landcover in the year 2040. Spatial growth model was developed using population growth projections from the University of Tennessee Center for Business and Economic Research (UT-CBER), county urban growth boundaries, 2000 census blocks, and various ancillary datasets.

Categories: Data; Tags: Academics & scientific researchers, AppLCC, Appalachian, Conservation NGOs, Data, All tags... Data.gov Appalachian Landscape Conservation Cooperative, Datasets/Database, Federal resource managers, Hunters & anglers, Interested public, Policy makers & regulators, Private land owners, Regional & county planners, State agencies, Tennessee, The Nature Conservancy, Tribes, biodiversity, biota, completed, conservation, decision support, endangered, habitat, modeling, planning, planningCadastre, prioritization, society, species, terrestrial, threatened, wildlife, Fewer tags

EnviroAtlas - Food, Fuel, and Materials Metrics for Conterminous United States

This EnviroAtlas web service supports research and online mapping activities related to EnviroAtlas (https://www.epa.gov/enviroatlas). The Food, Fuel, and Materials category in this web service includes layers illustrating the ecosystems and natural resources that provide or support the production of food, fuel, or other materials, the need or demand for these items, the impacts associated with their presence and accessibility, and factors that place stress on the natural environment's capability to provide these benefits. EnviroAtlas allows the user to interact with a web-based, easy-to-use, mapping application to view and analyze multiple ecosystem services for the conterminous United States. Additional descriptive...

Types: Citation; Tags: 12-digit HUCs, Agriculture, Air, Alabama, Alaska, All tags... Arizona, Arkansas, Austin, TX, Biodiversity, Biology, Biophysical, Biota, Boundaries, California, Census Block Groups, Cleanup, Climate, Colorado, Communities, Compliance, Connecticut, Conservation, Contaminant, Delaware, Demand for Ecosystem Services, Demographics, Detroit, MI, Disaster, Drinking Water, Drivers of Change - Ecosystem Services, Durham, NC, Ecology, Economy, Ecosystem, Ecosystem, Ecosystem Services, Elevation, Emergency, Endangered, Energy, EnviroAtlas, Environment, Environment, Environmental Atlas, Environmental Justice, Estuary, Exposure, Facilities, Florida, Food, Fresno, CA, Georgia, Green Infrastructure, Green Space, Ground Water, Habitat, Hawaii, Hazards, Health, Human, Human Well-being, Idaho, Illinois, Impact, Imperiled, Indiana, Indicator, Indoor Air, Inspections, Iowa, Kansas, Kentucky, Land, Land Cover, Louisiana, Maine, Management, Marine, Maryland, Massachusetts, Michigan, Milwaukee, WI, Minnesota, Mississippi, Missouri, Modeling, Monitoring, Montana, Natural Resources, Nebraska, Nevada, New Hampshire, New Jersey, New Mexico, New York, North Carolina, North Dakota, Ohio, Oklahoma, Oregon, Pennsylvania, Permits, Pesticides, Phoenix, AZ, Portland, ME, Portland, OR, Potential for Change - Ecosystem Services, Protected Lands, Quality, Radiation, Recreation, Regulatory, Remediation, Response, Rhode Island, Riparian, Risk, Sites, Society, Soils, South Carolina, South Dakota, Spills, Structure, Supply of Ecosystem Services, Surface Water, Sustainability, Tampa Bay, FL, Tennessee, Texas, Threatened, Toxics, Transportation, United States, Utah, Utilities, Vermont, Virginia, Washington, Washington DC, Waste, Water, West Virginia, Wetlands, Wisconsin, Wyoming, environment, Fewer tags

Tennessee Projected Percent Developed in 2040

Results of the population growth model developed by the Tennessee Chapter of The Nature Conservancy, 2008, converted to percent projected developed landcover in the year 2040. Spatial growth model was developed using population growth projections from the University of Tennessee Center for Business and Economic Research (UT-CBER), county urban growth boundaries, 2000 census blocks, and various ancillary datasets.

Categories: Data; Tags: Academics & scientific researchers, AppLCC, Appalachian, Conservation NGOs, Data, All tags... Data.gov Appalachian Landscape Conservation Cooperative, Datasets/Database, Federal resource managers, Hunters & anglers, Interested public, Policy makers & regulators, Private land owners, Regional & county planners, State agencies, Tennessee, The Nature Conservancy, Tribes, biodiversity, biota, completed, conservation, decision support, endangered, habitat, modeling, planning, planningCadastre, prioritization, society, species, terrestrial, threatened, wildlife, Fewer tags

Portal de Geoinformación

Geoinformación es un portal de información geográfica donde se puede consultar, visualizar y descargar cartografía temática de diferentes escalas generada y recopilada por CONABIO. Para desarrollar este portal se utilizó software de código abierto (open source). Las características principales del portal, son, desarrollar mecanismos de acceso a los acervos de datos geográficos de la CONABIO a través de servicios de información especializados, como: Vista gráfica de la información por temas generales. Información detallada sobre la cartografía disponible a través de búsquedas en los metadatos. Descarga de información en un formato compatible (shapefile) La información cartográfica es administrada por la Subdirección...

Types: Map Service, OGC WFS Layer, OGC WMS Layer, OGC WMS Service; Tags: GIS, Mexico, Spanish, agriculture, amphibian, All tags... biodiversity, bird, climate, connectivity, cultural, development, ecoregion, endangered, erosion, land cover, mammal, map, plant, priority, protected area, rare, reptile, river, road, soil, threatened, topography, vegetation, water, watershed, wetland, wildlife, Fewer tags

Department of Defense's (DoD) Natural Resources Conservation Program

The Department of Defense's (DoD) Natural Resources Conservation Program (NR Program) provides policy, guidance, and oversight for management of natural resources on nearly 25 million acres of military land, air, and water resources. The NR Program's goal is to ensure continued access to realistic habitat conditions to support the military's combat readiness mission, while simultaneously working to ensure the long term sustainability of our country's priceless natural heritage. The NR Program 's primary responsibilities are to: Oversee development and implementation of natural resource-related policy, guidance , procedures, and metrics; Ensure Military Service compliance with legislative obligations Executive...

Types: Map Service, OGC WFS Layer, OGC WMS Layer, OGC WMS Service; Tags: agency, biodiversity, climate, endangered, invasive, All tags... management, plan, restoration, soil, threatened, vegetation, wildlife, Fewer tags

LandScope America

LandScope America—a collaborative project of NatureServe and the National Geographic Society—is a new online resource for the land-protection community and the public. By bringing together maps, data, photos, and stories about America’s natural places and open spaces, our goal is to inform and inspire conservation of our lands and waters.

Types: Map Service, OGC WFS Layer, OGC WMS Layer, OGC WMS Service; Tags: Chihuahuan Desert, English, GIS, Mojave Desert, Sonoran Desert, All tags... US, biodiversity, climate, connectivity, development, ecoregion, endangered, energy, grassland, land cover, map, national, oil, ownership, plant, priority, protected area, rare, renewable, restoration, riparian, river, scrub, shrub, stream, threat, threatened, vegetation, vulnerability, water, watershed, wildlife, Fewer tags

Southwest Regional Gap Analysis Project

The Southwest Regional Gap Analysis Project (SWReGAP) is an update of the Gap Analysis Program’s mapping and assessment of biodiversity for the five-state region encompassing Arizona, Colorado, Nevada, New Mexico, and Utah. It is a multi-institutional cooperative effort coordinated by the U.S. Geological Survey Gap Analysis Program. The primary objective of the update is to use a coordinated mapping approach to create detailed, seamless GIS maps of land cover, all native terrestrial vertebrate species, land stewardship, and management status, and to analyze this information to identify those biotic elements that are underrepresented on lands managed for their long term conservation or are “gaps.”

Types: Map Service, OGC WFS Layer, OGC WMS Layer, OGC WMS Service; Tags: Chihuahuan Desert, English, GIS, Madrean, Mojave Desert, All tags... Sonoran Desert, US, amphibian, assessment, biodiversity, bird, ecoregion, endangered, grassland, mammal, management, map, model, ownership, priority, protected area, protected area, rare, remote sensing, reptile, river, road, scrub, shrub, threatened, vegetation, vulnerability, watershed, wildlife, Fewer tags

Sonoran Desert Conservation Plan MapGuide Map

Pima County makes extensive use of Geographical Information System (GIS) technology for making maps. For the Sonoran Desert Conservation Plan, this was an important technology for assembling the extensive existing data, both digital and non-digital, identifying critical gaps in the data and potential remedies, and providing a means for analyzing the information on biological and physical resources over the six million acre study area. SDCP Mapguide was created to display many of the natural resource GIS data layers, but Mapguide is being replaced with PimaMaps. You can use either to make your own overlays on aerial photos, line maps, or USGS topography. Customize your online map while panning and zooming on the...

Types: Map Service, OGC WFS Layer, OGC WMS Layer, OGC WMS Service; Tags: BMP, GIS, amphibian, biodiversity, bird, All tags... connectivity, cultural, development, endangered, erosion, fish, grassland, groundwater, invertebrate, land cover, mammal, management, map, mining, model, monitoring, ownership, plan, plant, priority, protected area, rare, recreation, remote sensing, reptile, research, reservoir, restoration, river, road, spring, stream, threatened, topography, vegetation, vulnerability, water, wildlife, Fewer tags

BLM REA NGB 2011 ACEC's in the NGB

This is an aggregate national dataset describing the geographic boundaries of the ACEC within the BLM managed public lands. The designated ACECs are "areas within the public lands where special management attention is required to protect and prevent irreparable damage to important historic, cultural, or scenic values, fish and wildlife resources or other natural systems of processes, or to protect life and safety from natural hazards."

Types: Downloadable; Tags: ACEC, Areas of Critical Environmental Concern, BLM, Biological, Bureau of Land Management, All tags... Cultural, DOI, Endangered, Geospatial, Land Use, Management, NGB 2011, Northern Great Basin, REA, RMP, Rapid Ecoregional Assessment, Scenic, Threatened, Wildlife, boundaries, environment, Fewer tags

Sustaining the Grassland Sea

Grasslands of the Sky Islands region once covered over 13 million acres in southeastern Arizona and adjacent portions of New Mexico, Sonora, and Chihuahua. Attempts to evaluate current ecological conditions suggest that approximately two thirds of these remain as intact or restorable grassland habitat. These grasslands provide watershed services such as flood control and aquifer recharge across the region, and continue to support dozens of species of concern. Prioritizing conservation interventions for these remaining grassland blocks has been challenging. Reliable data on condition and conservation value of grasslands in the region have not been systematically summarized. State and national boundaries further complicate...

Categories: Publication; Types: Citation, Map Service, OGC WFS Layer, OGC WMS Layer, OGC WMS Service; Tags: Chihuahuan Desert, English, Madrean, Mexico, US, All tags... agriculture, assessment, bird, climate, climate, connectivity, development, ecoregion, endangered, erosion, fire, grassland, grazing, groundwater, invasive, land cover, mammal, management, map, mining, model, monitoring, ownership, plan, plant, priority, protected area, rare, reptile, restoration, riparian, scrub, shrub, stream, threat, threatened, vegetation, vulnerability, water, watershed, wetland, wildlife, Fewer tags

Nevada Natural Heritage Program

Our mission is to develop and maintain a cost-effective, central information source and inventory of the locations, biology, and status of all threatened, endangered, rare, and at-risk plants and animals in Nevada. We use the best available biological data to continually evaluate conservation priorities for over 700 native animals, plants, and vegetation types, focusing on those that are at greatest risk of extinction or serious decline. As a non-regulatory, independent resource for scientifically objective data, environmental review, and technical assistance and expertise, we support the needs of diverse planning, conservation management, research, education, and economic development activities in Nevada. The...

Types: Map Service, OGC WFS Layer, OGC WMS Layer, OGC WMS Service; Tags: English, GIS, Mojave Desert, US, amphibian, All tags... assessment, bird, climate, ecoregion, endangered, fish, grassland, invasive, inventory, mammal, management, map, organization, plan, plant, priority, rare, research, reservoir, restoration, riparian, spring, threatened, topography, vegetation, vulnerability, wetland, wildlife, Fewer tags

Decision support for climate change adaptation and fire management strategies for at risk species in southern California

This project integrates fire risk models, species distribution models (SDMs) and population models with scenarios of future climate and land cover to project how the effects of climate-induced changes to species distributions and land use change will impact threatened species in fire-prone ecosystems. This project also identifies and prioritizes potential management responses to climate change (e.g. assisted colonization, fire management, land protection, dispersal corridors). Anticipated products include: 1) maps (digital and hard copy) of habitat suitability under current and future climate change, current and future projected urban growth and combinations of climate change and future projected urban growth, under...

Categories: Data, Project; Tags: 2011, Academics & scientific researchers, CA, CA-Southern, California Landscape Conservation Cooperative, All tags... Conservation NGOs, Conservation Plan/Design/Framework, Conservation Planning, Conservation planning, Decision Support, Decision support, Federal, LCC, LCC Network Science Catalog, Map, Population & Habitat Evaluation/Projection, Population and Habitat Evaluation/Projection, Project, Regional & county planners, Science Project, Southern California, Southwest CSC, adaptation, assisted colonization, assisted colonization, completed, corridor, data basin, decision support, environment, fire, listed, management, map, moisture, mscp, multiple, multiple, population model, risk model, sdm, sleuth model, species distribution model, threatened, translocation, urban, vulnerability, Fewer tags

Forests to Faucets: Percent Threatened by Development

The Forests to Faucets project uses a GIS to model and map the land areas across the United States that are most important to surface drinking water sources, as well as to identify forested areas important to the protection of drinking water and areas where drinking water supplies might be threatened by development, insects and diseases, and wildland fire. The results of this assessment provide information that can identify areas of interest for protecting surface drinking water quality. The spatial dataset can be ncorporated into broad-scale planning and can help identify areas for further local analysis. In addition it can be incorporated into existing decision support tools that currently lack spatial data on...

Categories: Data; Types: ArcGIS REST Map Service, ArcGIS Service Definition, Downloadable, Map Service; Tags: development, forests, forests to faucets, housing density, threatened, All tags... water, Fewer tags

Priority Conservation Areas: Grasslands, 2010

This map shows the grasslands priority conservation areas (GPCAs) within North America's Central Grasslands, an ecosystem considered among the most threatened in the continent and the world. GPCAs are defined as areas of tri-national importance due to their ecological significance and threatened nature, which are in need of international cooperation for their successful conservation. In 2004, 55 GPCAs were identified by biodiversity experts through research and a workshop co-organized by the CEC. Details of the initial selection process can be found in North American Grassland Priority Conservation Areas: Technical Report and Documentation, and the CEC publication Grasslands: Toward a North American Conservation...

Types: Map Service, OGC WFS Layer, OGC WMS Layer, OGC WMS Service; Tags: Canada, English, GIS, Mexico, US, All tags... agriculture, assessment, biodiversity, bird, connectivity, development, energy, fire, grassland, grazing, invasive, land cover, mammal, map, oil, ownership, plant, priority, protected area, threat, threatened, vegetation, wildlife, Fewer tags