Renewable Energy in the California Desert

Solar development has the potential to have widespread impacts on the California desert. Thus, it is important to have as much information as possible regarding the impacts of facilities and related infrastructure on the natural ecosystem and surrounding desert communities, how current policies are influencing development, and how the federal process is working on evaluating solar development applications. This research is detailed in this website. "Renewable Energy in the California Desert: Mechanisms for Evaluating Solar Development on Public Lands" is the result of sixteen months of research conducted by ten graduate students from the University of Michigan School of Natural Resources and Environmen t through...

Types: Map Service, OGC WFS Layer, OGC WMS Layer, OGC WMS Service; Tags: BMP, English, GIS, Mojave Desert, OHV, All tags... US, agriculture, assessment, bird, climate, connectivity, contamination, cultural, development, economic, ecoregion, endangered, energy, erosion, fire, fish, grazing, groundwater, invasive, invertebrate, land cover, mammal, management, map, mining, model, monitoring, ownership, plan, plant, priority, program, protected area, rare, recreation, renewable, reptile, research, restoration, riparian, road, soil, spring, stream, threat, threatened, vegetation , vulnerability, water, wetland, wildlife, wind, Fewer tags

Jornada Bibliography

Chihuahuan Desert landscapes exemplify the ecological conditions, vulnerability, and management challenges in arid and semi-arid regions around the world. The goal of the Jornada Basin Long Term Ecological Research program (JRN LTER) established in 1982 is to understand and quantify the key factors and processes controlling ecosystem dynamics and patterns in Chihuahuan Desert landscapes. In collaboration with the Jornada Experimental Range (USDA ARS), studies initiated in 1915 have been incorporated into the JRN LTER program. Previous research focused on desertification, a state change from perennial grasslands to woody plant dominance that occurs globally. Based on findings from growing long-term databases, the...

Types: Map Service, OGC WFS Layer, OGC WMS Layer, OGC WMS Service; Tags: CMQ3, Chihuahuan Desert, DLCC, Desert LCC, English, All tags... Mojave Desert, New Mexico, OHV, Sonoran Desert, US, agriculture, amphibian, assessment, biodiversity, bird, climate, condition, connectivity, development, ecoregion, elevation, endangered, energy, erosion, fire, fossil fuel, geology, grassland, grazing, groundwater, invasive, inventory, invertebrate, land use, landscape, mammal, management, mining, model, monitoring, ownership, plan, plant, priority, program, protected area, recreation, reptile, research, resilience, restoration, riparian, river, road, runoff, scrub, shrubland, slope, soil, stream, target, terrestrial, threat, threatened, transportation, vegetation, vulnerability, water, watershed, wetland, wildlife, wind, Fewer tags

Arizona's Wildlife Linkages

Biologists, engineers, planners and land managers from nine public agencies have worked together since 2004 to identify large blocks of protected habitat, the potential wildlife movement corridors through and between them, the factors that could possibly disrupt these linkage zones and opportunities for conservation. Recognizing that habitat connectivity is a landscape issue involving multiple land jurisdictions, this workgroup has engaged in unprecedented cooperation and facilitated discussions and partnerships to help ensure a unified approach to wildlife linkage conservation and management. This reinforces the commitment to and efficiency of wildlife connectivity measures undertaken by all stakeholders, using...

Types: Map Service, OGC WFS Layer, OGC WMS Layer, OGC WMS Service; Tags: BMP, Chihuahuan Desert, English, Madrean, Mojave Desert, All tags... US, agriculture, condition, connectivity, contamination, development, ecoregion, endangered, energy, erosion, grassland, invasive, management, map, mining, ownership, plan, priority, protected area, recreation, restoration, riparian, river, road, scrub, shrub, stream, threat, threatened, water, watershed, wetland, wildlife, Fewer tags

Biodiversity Information Serving Our Nation (BISON) - Listed Species within Pacific Southwest Region (Region 8), U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service

Researchers collect species occurrence data, records of an organism at a particular time in a particular place, as a primary or ancillary function of many biological field investigations. Presently, these data reside in numerous distributed systems and formats (including publications) and are consequently not being used to their full potential. As a step toward addressing this challenge, the Core Science Analytics, Synthesis, and Libraries (CSAS&L) program of the U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) is developing Biodiversity Information Serving Our Nation (BISON), an integrated and permanent resource for biological occurrence data from the United States. BISON will leverage the accumulated human and infrastructural resources...

Categories: Data; Types: ArcGIS REST Map Service, ArcGIS Service Definition, Downloadable, Map Service; Tags: BISON, Pacific Southwest Region, Region 8, USFWS, endangered, All tags... species occurrence, threatened, Fewer tags

Tennessee State Wildlife Action Plan Priorities Upstream of Aquatic Habitats

Landscape priorities upstream of habitat priorities for aquatic species of greatest conservation need from the 2015 Tennessee State Wildlife Action Plan.

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, The Nature Conservancy, Tribes, biodiversity, biota, completed, conservation, decision support, endangered, freshwater, habitat, modeling, planning, prioritization, species, threatened, wildlife, Fewer tags

Tennessee State Wildlife Action Plan 2015 Aquatic Habitat Priorities

Habitat priorities for aquatic species of greatest conservation need (GCN) from the 2015 Tennessee State Wildlife Action Plan.

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

Assessment of Grassland Ecosystem Conditions in the Southwestern United States: Wildlife and Fish, Volume 2

This report is volume 2 of a two-volume ecological assessment of grassland ecosystems in the Southwestern United States. Broad-scale assessments are syntheses of current scientific knowledge, including a description of uncertainties and assumptions, to provide a characterization and comprehensive description of ecological, social, and economic components within an assessment area. Volume 1 of this assessment focused on the ecology, types, conditions, and management practices of Southwestern grasslands. Volume 2 (this volume) describes wildlife and fish species, their habitat requirements, and species-specific management concerns, in Southwestern grasslands. This assessment is regional in scale and pertains primarily...

Categories: Publication; Types: Citation, Map Service, OGC WFS Layer, OGC WMS Layer, OGC WMS Service; Tags: BMP, Chihuahuan Desert, English, Sonoran Desert, agriculture, All tags... amphibian, assessment, biodiversity, bird, climate, condition, connectivity, contamination, development, endangered, erosion, fire, fish, grassland, grazing, groundwater, invasive, invertebrate, land cover, mammal, management, map, mining, monitoring, ownership, plan, priority, program, protected area, rare, recreation, reptile, research, restoration, riparian, river, road, scrub, shrub, soil, spring, stream, terrestrial, threat, threatened, vegetation, vulnerability, water, watershed, wetland, wildlife, Fewer tags

Sonoran Desert Rapid Ecoregional Assessment (REA)

REAs synthesize the best available information about resource conditions and trends within an ecoregion. They highlight and map areas of high ecological value, including important wildlife habitats and corridors, and gauge their potential risks from climate change, wildfires, invasive species, energy development, and urban growth. REAs also map areas that have high energy development potential, and relatively low ecological value, which could be best-suited for siting future energy development. In addition, REAs establish landscape-scale baseline ecological data to gauge the effect and effectiveness of future management actions. The Sonoran Desert REA was initiated in July 2010. It has been completed and peer reviewed...

Types: Map Service, OGC WFS Layer, OGC WMS Layer, OGC WMS Service; Tags: English, GIS, OHV, US, agriculture, All tags... amphibian, biodiversity, bird, burro, climate, connectivity, contamination, cultural, development, ecoregion, endangered, energy, erosion, fire, grazing, groundwater, horse, invasive, invertebrate, land cover, mammal, map, mining, model, oil, plant, priority, protected area, rare, recreation, renewable, reptile, reservoir, riparian, river, road, scrub, soil, stream, threat, threatened, vegetation, water, watershed, wetland, wildlife, Fewer tags

Sky Island Alliance

Our Mission & History Volunteers in the Tumacacoris. Photo by Trevor Hare Sky Island Alliance is a science-based conservation organization. We are dedicated to the protection and restoration of the rich natural heritage of native species and habitats in the Sky Island region of the southwestern United States and northwestern Mexico. We work with volunteers, scientists, land owners, public officials, and government agencies to establish protected areas, restore healthy landscapes, and promote public appreciation of the region's unique biological diversity. Sky Island Alliance pioneered landscape-level conservation planning by integrating the science of conservation biology with grassroots organizing and on-the-ground...

Types: Map Service, OGC WFS Layer, OGC WMS Layer, OGC WMS Service; Tags: English, Madrean, Mexico, OHV, US, All tags... adaptation, agency, agriculture, amphibian, assessment, biodiversity, bird, climate, connectivity, contamination, development, ecoregion, endangered, erosion, fish, grassland, grazing, groundwater, invasive, inventory, mammal, management, map, mining, monitoring, ownership, plan, plant, program, protected area, rare, recreation, reptile, research, resilience, restoration, riparian, river, road, soil, spring, stream, threat, threatened, water, wetland, wildlife, Fewer tags

Endangered Species and Ecosystems - Non-Confidential Occurrences

A spatial view of non-confidential locations of species and ecological communities at risk split into a Non-confidential Occurrence layer and a Historical Non-confidential Occurrence layer. Data collected and mapped by the Conservation Data Centre. Occurrences are deemed historical if the last observation was greater than 40 years ago or the occurrence is considered to be possibly extirpated due to general habitat loss or degradation of the environment in the area

Tags: At Risk, BC, BC data, British Columbia, CDC, All tags... Canada, Conservation Data Centre, Ecology, Ecosystems, Endangered, NPLCC, North Pacific Landscape Conservation Cooperative, Rare, Species, Threatened, biota, Fewer tags

Buffer surrounding US Fish and Wildlife Service region 3

This is a polygon buffer, surrounding the US Fish and Wildlife Service region 3 (http://www.fws.gov/midwest/endangered/).

Tags: bird, endangered, ibp, midwest, phil nott, All tags... usfws, Fewer tags

Assessment of Grassland Ecosystem Conditions in the Southwestern United States, Volume 1

This report is volume 1 of a two-volume ecological assessment of grassland ecosystems in the Southwestern United States. Broadscale assessments are syntheses of current scientific knowledge, including a description of uncertainties and assumptions, to provide a characterization and comprehensive description of ecological, social, and economic components within an assessment area. Volume 1 of this assessment focuses on the ecology, types, conditions, and management practices of Southwestern grasslands. The second volume, due to be published in 2005, describes wildlife and fish species, their habitat requirements, and species-specific management concerns, in Southwestern grasslands. This assessment is regional in...

Categories: Publication; Types: Citation, Map Service, OGC WFS Layer, OGC WMS Layer, OGC WMS Service; Tags: BMP, Chihuahuan Desert, English, GIS, OHV, All tags... Sonoran Desert, agriculture, amphibian, biodiversity, bird, climate, connectivity, contamination, cultural, development, endangered, energy, erosion, fire, fish, grassland, grazing, invasive, inventory, invertebrate, land cover, mammal, management, map, mining, model, monitoring, oil, ownership, plan, plant, priority, protected area, rare, recreation, reptile, research, resilience, restoration, riparian, road, scrub, shrub, soil, stream, threat, threatened, vegetation, vulnerability, water, watershed, wetland, wildlife, Fewer tags

Integrated Resource Management Applications (IRMA)

NPS is transforming the way park resource information is managed and delivered to parks, partners, and the public. IRMA (Integrated Resource Management Applications) is the name given to the project that has guided this transformation, and to the web portal that is its end result. View or download the IRMA project brief (.pdf). IRMA is a portfolio of tools and applications, and the beginnings of a "one-stop" for data and information on park-related resources. From IRMA you can search for, view, and download documents, reports, publications, data sets, and park species lists. You can get information on park visitor numbers, park projects, and apply for a park research permit. Park staff can navigate to certain internal...

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, adaptation, agriculture, amphibian, assessment, biodiversity, bird, climate, connectivity, contamination, cultural, desertification, development, ecoregion, endangered, energy, fish, grazing, groundwater, invasive, inventory, invertebrate, land cover, management, map, mining, monitoring, national, oil, ownership, plan, priority, protected area, rare, recreation, remote sensing, renewable, reptile, research, reservoir, resilience, restoration, riparian, river, soil, spring, stream, threat, threatened, topography, vegetation, vegetation, vulnerability, water, watershed, wetland, Fewer tags

SIMEC: Sistema de Información, Monitoreo y Evaluación para la Conservación

La complejidad de los procesos sobre los cuales incide la CONANP ha requerido del desarrollo de las capacidades de seguimiento y evaluación, para conocer el grado de efectividad de las acciones en el cumplimiento de su misión. Es por ello que, en el año 2002 inició el diseño del Sistema de Información, Monitoreo y Evaluación para la Conservación (SIMEC) en la Comisión Nacional de Áreas Naturales Protegidas (CONANP) con el objetivo principal de "Contar con un sistema que incorpore Indicadores Biológicos, Geográficos y Sociales, que permita dar a conocer los resultados sobre la efectividad e impacto en la aplicación de políticas públicas en las Áreas Naturales Protegidas de ámbito federal y otras modalidades de conservación"....

Types: Map Service, OGC WFS Layer, OGC WMS Layer, OGC WMS Service; Tags: Mexico, Spanish, endangered, invasive, management, All tags... map, plan, protected area, threat, threatened, wetland, wildlife, Fewer tags

BLM AIM AquADat Point

This feature class includes monitoring data collected nationally to understand the status, condition, and trend of resources on BLM lands. Data are collected in accordance with the BLM Assessment, Inventory, and Monitoring (AIM) Strategy. The AIM Strategy specifies a probabilistic sampling design, standard core indicators and methods, electronic data capture and management, and integration with remote sensing. Attributes include the BLM aquatic core indicators: pH, conductivity, temperature, pool depth, length, frequency, streambed particles sizes, bank stability and cover, floodplain connectivity, large woody debris, macroinvertebrate biological integrity, ocular estimates of vegetative type, cover, and structure...

Types: Downloadable; Tags: AIM, AIM_AK, AIM_AZ, AIM_CA, AIM_CO, All tags... AIM_ID, AIM_MTDA, AIM_NATL, AIM_NM, AIM_NV, AIM_ORWA, AIM_Policy, AIM_Protocol, AIM_Tool, AIM_UT, AIM_WY, AquaDat, BLM, DOI, Endangered, Fish, GRSG, Geomorphology, Geospatial, Hydrology, Landscape Monitoring Framework, Macroinvertebrates, Monitoring Methods, National Resources Inventory, Projects, Science, Utah State University, Water quality, Western Rivers and Streams Assessment, Wildlife, aquatic, aquatics, biota, boundaries, bug lab, environment, geoscientificInformation, health, inlandWaters, lakes, monitoring, reach, riparian, rivers, streams, Fewer tags

Solar Energy Environmental Mapper

The Solar Energy Environmental Mapper is an interactive web-based mapping tool providing access to information relevant to siting of utility-scale solar projects in the southwestern United States. Users can view map layers that were used to create the maps and conduct some analyses in the Solar Energy Development PEIS as well as map layers showing land use decisions associated with the Bureau of Land Management’s Solar Energy Program. The tool provides the ability to zoom and pan to areas of interest, and display and query data. The Solar Energy Environmental Mapper provides users with fast, easy access to a wide variety of spatial data through a Web browser, requiring only limited and generally quick data and software...

Types: Map Service, OGC WFS Layer, OGC WMS Layer, OGC WMS Service; Tags: English, GIS, US, ecoregion, endangered, All tags... energy, mammal, management, map, ownership, plan, plant, priority, protected area, rare, recreation, renewable, reptile, reservoir, river, stream, threat, threatened, water, watershed, wildlife, Fewer tags

Arizona’s Natural Infrastructure

This data represents Arizona's natural infrastructure. We integrated 12 local, state, and regional datasets that identify open space lands and sensitive biological lands. This data set is a composite or simplification of the source data sets -- the boundaries of all source records have been combined ("dissolved") into one composite record in order to facilitate analysis. Note: We did not integrate wildlife linkages data from 2 of the studies in this composite layer because we were not able to obtain permission to do so from the source agencies. Please see the following websites if you are interested in obtaining this data: http://www.dot.state.az.us/Highways/OES/AZ_WildLife_Linkages/gis_layers.asp http://corridordesign.org/arizona/download.php...

Types: Map Service, OGC WFS Layer, OGC WMS Layer, OGC WMS Service; Tags: English, GIS, US, connectivity, development, All tags... endangered, grassland, land use, map, ownership, plan, priority, protected area, rare, recreation, road, threat, threatened, vulnerability, water, wildlife, Fewer tags

U.S. Fish & Wildlife Service Web Mapping Gateway, Pacific Southwest Region

This portal is a web mapping platform managed and curated by members of various programs and cooperator groups within the Pacific Southwest Region, U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service. It is designed to showcase spatial information for particular geographies, topics, projects and administrative offices. Various searchable topics and data layers presented on this site include subsets of the data available across the Data Basin system. Members and visitors can use this portal to use or share existing maps or create their own custom maps.

Types: Map Service, OGC WFS Layer, OGC WMS Layer, OGC WMS Service; Tags: California, GIS, Nevada, agriculture, bird, All tags... climate, connectivity, contamination, ecoregion, endangered, invasive, land cover, mammal, map, model, plant, protected area, rare, reptile, road, soil, threatened, topography, vegetation, water, watershed, wildlife, Fewer tags

New Mexico Statewide Resources Assessment

This New Mexico Statewide Resources Assessment, Strategy and Response Plan intends to guide long-term Division management, but as importantly, to provide useful information to our many partners who work together to create and maintain sustainable forests and their many benefits. The Forestry Division's central purpose is to promote healthy, sustainable forests in New Mexico for the benefit of current and future generations. This mission is accomplished by working with partners interested in improving the health of the state’s forests and watersheds. This document helps the Division meet two directives: the New Mexico Forest and Watershed Health Plan, completed in 2004, identifying the need for an all resources...

Categories: Publication; Types: Citation, Map Service, OGC WFS Layer, OGC WMS Layer, OGC WMS Service; Tags: GIS, connectivity, development, economic, endangered, All tags... fire, fish, map, model, threatened, water, wildlife, Fewer tags

Grasslands Ecosystems, Endangered Species, and Sustainable Ranching in the Mexico-U.S. Borderlands/ Ecosistemas de Pastizales, Especies en Peligro y Ganadería Sostenible en Tierras Fronterizas de México- Estados Unidos

The semi-arid grasslands in the Mexico-United States border region are relatively intact and provide one of the best opportunities in North America to preserve and nurture an extensive series of grassland ecosystems. The conference was organized to increase appreciation for the importance of the remaining semi-arid grasslands and to create a platform for expanding the integration of natural and social sciences among individuals and organizations. The conference was attended by ranchers, environmentalists, academics, and agency personnel from both nations. Main topics include grassland ecology and biodiversity, management and conservation, and sustainable borderland ranching. Endangered species management, especially...

Tags: Mexico, Spanish, United States, biodiversity, conference proceedings, All tags... economic, endangered, grassland, grazing, management, restoration, wildlife, Fewer tags