BLM REA SLV 2013 Basin Grassland and Shrubland Assessment

This map shows the distribution, vegetation departure, current/future landscape intactness, current/future change agents, and potential for change of Basin Grassland and Shrubland in the study area. These data are provided by Bureau of Land Management (BLM) "as is" and may contain errors or omissions. The User assumes the entire risk associated with its use of these data and bears all responsibility in determining whether these data are fit for the User's intended use. These data may not have the accuracy, resolution, completeness, timeliness, or other characteristics appropriate for applications that potential users of the data may contemplate. The User is encouraged to carefully consider the content of the metadata...

Types: Live Data; Tags: BLM, Bureau of Land Management, Climate Change, DOI, Development, All tags... Disease, Distribution, Fire, Geology, Geospatial, Grassland, Insect, Invasive Species, Landscape Intactness, MapServer, Potential for Change, REA, Rapid Ecoregional Assessment, SLV 2013, San Luis Valley, Shrubland, Vegetation, Vegetation Departure, biota, geoscientificInformation, liveData, service, Fewer tags

BLM REA NGB 2011 BLM Surface Management Agency BLM Lands

BLM Surface Management Agency Layer

Types: Downloadable; Tags: BLM, Bankhead-Jones, Bureau of Land Management, Bureau of Reclamation, DOI, All tags... Federal, Federal Land, Federal Land Stewardship, Fish and Wildlife, Forest Service, Geospatial, Grassland, Indian, LST, Land Status, Management, Military, NGB 2011, NPS, National Park Service, Northern Great Basin, O&C, Oregon & California Lands, Ownership, Public Land, REA, Rapid Ecoregional Assessment, Refuge, Reservation, SMA, State, Surface Management Agency, USFS, USFW, Wilderness, boundaries, planningCadastre, Fewer tags

A Linkage Network for the California Deserts

The rapidly increasing demands being placed on our deserts points to the urgent need for a connectivity assessment that spans multiple jurisdictional boundaries and promotes the partnerships needed to implement a regional conservation strategy for this diverse and striking landscape. The vast scale of renewable energy developments proposed in the California deserts are likely to impact habitat connectivity, alter essential ecosystem functions, and eliminate opportunities for species to shift their ranges in response to climate change. The potential impacts of energy development on our existing public lands, specifically to wildlife and their ability to move across the landscape, are enormous. The primary goal of...

Categories: Publication; Types: Citation, Map Service, OGC WFS Layer, OGC WMS Layer, OGC WMS Service; Tags: BMP, California, GIS, OHV, assessment, All tags... biodiversity, climate, connectivity, development, endangered, energy, erosion, fire, grassland, grazing, groundwater, invasive, land cover, management, map, mining, model, ownership, plan, priority, protected area, rare, renewable, restoration, riparian, river, road, scrub, shrub, soil, spring, stream, threatened, vegetation, water, watershed, wetland, wildlife, Fewer tags

Sonoran Joint Venture Bird Conservation Plan

The Sonoran Joint Venture Bird Conservation Plan (Plan) provides the biological foundation for the activities of the Sonoran Joint Venture (SJV). The Plan summarizes the status of avian species, prioritizes these species, provides habitat discussions and conservation recommendations, and lists Focus Areas for conservation action. This Plan will be a blueprint for regional bird conservation. It will guide the SJV staff, Board, and committees in their actions and inform SJV partners of beneficial activities. Finally and most importantly, this Plan demonstrates and emphasizes the need for conservation action and for the resources to achieve the SJV’s biological objectives. There are approximately 740 species documented...

Types: Map Service, OGC WFS Layer, OGC WMS Layer, OGC WMS Service; Tags: Madrean, Mexico, Mojave Desert, US, grassland, All tags... management, priority, rare, restoration, shrub, threat, vegetation, Fewer tags

Arizona’s State Wildlife Action Plan: 2012 - 2022

Arizona's Comprehensive Wildlife Conservation Strategy, or CWCS, was accepted by the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service's National Acceptance Advisory Team in 2006. It was the culmination of a 2-year effort during which the Arizona Game and Fish Department solicited input from numerous experts, resource professionals, federal and state agencies, sportsmen groups, conservation organizations, Native American tribes, recreational groups, local governments, and private citizens and integrated those ideas and concerns into a single, comprehensive vision for managing Arizona’s fish, wildlife, and wildlife habitats over the next ten years. In the intervening five years, Arizona and its’ wildlife have seen many changes. To...

Categories: Publication; Types: Citation, Map Service, OGC WFS Layer, OGC WMS Layer, OGC WMS Service; Tags: grassland, management, map, model, monitoring, All tags... priority, rare, riparian, shrub, threat, water, Fewer tags

Biodiversidad Mexicana: Pastizales

Nombres Descripción Distribución Clima Flora y fauna Servicios ambientales Impactos y amenazas Legislación Referencias Areas naturales protegidas que incluyen pastizales Publicaciones Mapas Video Sitios web Galería

Types: Map Service, OGC WFS Layer, OGC WMS Layer, OGC WMS Service; Tags: Mexico, Spanish, bird, climate, environmental services, All tags... grassland, grazing, mammal, map, policy, protected area, soil, vegetation, Fewer tags

Evaluating the Effects of Grazing Land Conservation Practices on Southwestern Watersheds

Conservation of soil and water is the keystone to sustainable livestock grazing and maintenance of native species on Southwestern grazing lands. The negative impacts of erosion on vegetation productivity can have significant economic impacts to a ranch operation and sedimentation is the leading water quality problem in the western United States impacting reservoirs and aquatic environments. Recurring drought conditions can override the success of conservation practices in the arid and semiarid Southwest. The severity and persistence of these drought-related impacts to watershed health can vary among conservation practices. Therefore, government assistance programs intended to support soil and water conservation...

Types: Map Service, OGC WFS Layer, OGC WMS Layer, OGC WMS Service; Tags: BMP, climate, erosion, fire, grassland, All tags... grazing, management, model, shrub, Fewer tags

White Sands Missile Range Integrated Natural Resource Management Plan

As the third largest federal land manager in the United States (Keystone Center 1996a), the Department of Defense (DoD) mandates the conservation and wise management of the natural resources on military installations. To this end, DoD policy directs each Army installation to produce an Integrated Natural Resource Management Plan (INRMP), the purpose of which is to “ensure that natural resource conservation measures and Army activities on mission land are integrated and consistent with federal stewardship requirements” (Army Goals and Implementing Guidance for Natural Resource Planning Level Surveys and Integrated Natural Resource Management Plans, 21 March 1997). The basic goal of this INRMP is to support and sustain...

Types: Map Service, OGC WFS Layer, OGC WMS Layer, OGC WMS Service; Tags: New Mexico, amphibian, bird, climate, cultural, All tags... fish, geology, grassland, invasive, invertebrate, mammal, oil & gas, outreach, plant, policy, recreation, reptile, riparian, soil, threatened & endangered, vegetation, water, Fewer tags

Integrated Natural Resources Management Plan for Edwards Air Force Base, California

This 5-year update of the Integrated Natural Resources Management Plan (INRMP) has been prepared for Edwards Air Force Base (AFB), California, as required by the Sikes Improvement Act of 1997 and Air Force Instruction 32-7064, Integrated Natural Resources Management. The INRMP is based on ecosystem management principles and identifies responsibilities for management of natural resources, land use and mission activities and their potential effects on the environment, descriptions of the physical and ecosystem environments, mission impacts on natural resources, natural resources program management, and management goals and objectives. The INRMP also includes specific management methods, schedules of activities and...

Types: Map Service, OGC WFS Layer, OGC WMS Layer, OGC WMS Service; Tags: OHV/ ORV/ ATV, bird, contamination, fire, grassland, All tags... invasive, mammal, management, monitoring, outreach, plant, recreation, reptile, shrub/scrub, threatened & endangered, vegetation, water, wetland, Fewer tags

Conservation Priorities in the Apache Highlands Ecoregion

The Apache Highlands ecoregion incorporates the entire Madrean Archipelago/Sky Island region. We analyzed the current distribution of 223 target species and 26 terrestrial ecological systems there, and compared them with constraints on ecosystem integrity (e.g., road density) to determine the most efficient set of areas needed to maintain current biodiversity. The resulting portfolio of 90 areas includes 12.5 million acres (5 million ha) that should be priorities for protection. Conservation strategies include protection and restoration of grasslands, restoration or maintenance of natural fire regimes, and learning more of probable effects of climate change.

Types: Map Service, OGC WFS Layer, OGC WMS Layer, OGC WMS Service; Tags: Madrean Archipelago, biodiversity, climate, fire, grassland, All tags... map, priority, protected area, restoration, Fewer tags

Mojave Basin and Range 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 Mojave Basin and Range REA was initiated in July 2010. It has been completed and...

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

The Nature Conservancy's Priority Conservation Areas

The Nature Conservancy has been a leader in spatial conservation planning for many years. The primary planning tool used by the Conservancy for landscape-scale conservation planning over the past decade has been Ecoregional Assessments. Our United States Ecoregional Assessments identify priority areas for conservation within the United States. This includes data from 67 Ecoregional Assessments, which identified over 9,000 conservation priority areas. Importantly, this dataset contains the conservation targets that we hope to conserve within these priority areas. Conservation targets include both species and habitat types (e.g. plant communities; ecosystems). Our dataset includes 8,507 unique species and 6,633 habitat...

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, fish, grassland, invertebrate, mammal, map, plant, priority, rare, reptile, scrub, shrub, threatened, vegetation, wildlife, Fewer tags

Uso de suelo y vegetación

A través de diversos productos se muestra la distribución de la vegetación natural e inducida, la localización de las áreas dedicadas a la ganadería; se representan los diferentes tipos de vegetación y las áreas de uso agrícola, pecuario y forestal. Incluye información puntual sobre especies botánicas representativas de la cubierta vegetal. Útil para conocer el estado actual en que se encuentran los diferentes tipos vegetación, proporciona información básica para la enseñanza e investigación sobre los recursos naturales.

Types: Map Service, OGC WFS Layer, OGC WMS Layer, OGC WMS Service; Tags: GIS, Mexico, agriculture, grassland, land cover, All tags... map, riparian, shrub/scrub, vegetation, wetland, Fewer tags

Transboundary land cover dataset for the Sky Islands Ecoregion

This data layer was developed for use by regional conservation organizations and partners located in or adjacent to the Sky Islands region of the Southwest and to fill a key data gap, namely detailed, consistent, and project-relevant spatial datasets on land cover. These data emerged, in part, from a stakeholder-based process that involved the participation of multiple organizations, including Conservation Science Partners, Northern Arizona University, The Nature Conservancy, USGS, USFWS, Arizona Game and Fish Department, Borderlands Restoration, Sky Islands Alliance, Arizona-Sonora Desert Museum, and Universidad de Hermosillo. Development of these data was generously supported by Wilburforce Foundation. We developed...

Types: Map Service, OGC WFS Layer, OGC WMS Layer, OGC WMS Service; Tags: GIS, Madrean Archipelago, agriculture, ecoregion, grassland, All tags... land cover, model, remote sensing, shrub/scrub, vegetation, wetland, Fewer tags

Grasslands - Invasive and Problematic (Native and non-native) Plant Stressors - Mesquite (Prosopis glandulosa)

These heatmaps show a top 3 stressor or service, as ranked by participants, and the concentration of participants who reported as working in each municipality or county who also voted for that stressor or service across the landscape. This map shows the percentage of participants from each county and municipality who ranked mesquite as a top 3 ecosystem stressor in the Grassland Invasive Plant category in their region. Symbology represents the percentage of participants with 0% = dark green, 0.0001 % - 24.99% = light green, 25% - 49.99% = yellow, 50% - 74.99% = orange, 75% - 100% = red. All counties and municipalities identified by participants as areas where they work were given a tally for each of the top 3 stressors...

Categories: Data; Types: ArcGIS REST Map Service, ArcGIS Service Definition, Downloadable, Map Service, OGC WFS Layer, OGC WMS Layer, Shapefile; Tags: chihuahuan desert, dos rios, ecosystems stressors, grassland, mesquite