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The Rainwater Basin (RWB) wetland complex in south-central Nebraska provides crucial stopover habitat for over 7 million waterfowl and 500,000 shorebirds every spring. However, only 10% of the original RWB wetlands remain, resulting in less available habitat for wetland-dependent birds. Conservation efforts are being employed to alleviate the loss of RWB wetlands. To aid conservation efforts, we created a vegetation map of all historical RWB wetlands based on 2004 imagery. The shapefile maps the 2004 vegetation communities for all historic wetlands in the Rainwater Basin region of Nebraska, USA. Vegetation communities include cropped areas that rarely pond water, cropped areas that often pond water, bare soil...
We obtained statewide spatially explicit gridded soil survey data for Nebraska from the Soil Survey Geographic (SSURGO) database. The ‘chorizon,’ ‘chtexture,’ ‘chtexturegrp,’ ‘mapunit,’ and ‘mutext’ tables in the Gridded SSURGO database were joined together using the “mukey” attribute field in a geographic information system (GIS). The representative values for slope (rvslope) and slope length (rvslopelenusle), the susceptibility of the soil to water erosion (Kw), and the soil loss tolerance (t_fact) values were obtained from the set of joined tables and were included in the Water Erosion Index calculation. We acquired county-specific rainfall and runoff factor values (R) from the U.S. Department ofAgriculture’s...
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The Nebraska Game and Parks Commission (NGPC) contracted the Rainwater Basin Joint Venture (RWBJV) to conduct a black-tail prairie dog colony inventory of Nebraska using 1-meter National Agriculture Imagery Program ( 2010) aerial imagery. We estimated the extent of each colony by placing polygon vertices on the furthest visible burrows. Burrows were then re-evaluated using sub-meter resolution imagery. Burrow delineations within 3 kilometers of one another were combined and considered a single colony resulting in 669 distinct colonies totaling 97,438 acres across the state of Nebraska.
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Historic wetlands based on soils, historic wetland surveys, National Wetland Inventories (NWI) and inventories conducted by the Rainwater Basin Joint Venture.
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The Rainwater Basin Joint Venture (RWBJV) used wetland complex models for analysis in their conservation actions. A Historic Wetland Mask (HWM) was used as analysis features for the playa wetlands. The HWM is a GIS layer created by merging all of the playa wetland features identified from four sources: historic soil surveys , National Wetland Inventory, Soil Survey Geographic Database and a 2005 Ducks Unlimited satellite inventory. Using the HWM allows the model to analyze all potential historic wetlands and evaluate their restoration potential as waterfowl habitat. A combination of raster and vector-based spatial analysis was performed on the historic wetland footprints. Factors included in the mask were size,...
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Agricultural Areas within the Rainwater Basin Region and Twin Platte Region of Nebraska delineated by irrigation type (pivot, pivot corner, gravity, and dryland). Land status current to 2016.
These are vector (polygon) inventories of woodland features that were part of a Rainwater Basin land cover mapping effort. These features were digitized using 2010 USDA National Agricultural Imagery Program (NAIP). These features created in 2011-2012 and were incorporated in to RWBJV Nebraska land covers starting in version 10.
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This dataset is part of the Rainwater Basin (RWB) Wetland Complex Easement Priority Model to prioritize the enrollment of easements in the RWB. Criteria include Hydrologic Function, Restoration Potential, Percent Hydrological Function, Proximity to Existing Conservation Lands, Hydric Soil Ownership, Wetland Density, Wetland Acres greater than 75 meters, Upland Buffer, Restoration Complexity, Supplemental Water, and Presence of Transmission Lines. This dataset was processed by Roger Grosse and Daniel Uttecht with the Rainwater Basin Joint Venture (RWBJV). Criteria for the Model were developed by the RWBJV GIS Lab and the RWB Acquisition Workgroup.
The Big Bend reach of the central Platte River serves as a major staging area for migratory water birds (waterfowl, wading birds, shorebirds) during spring migration. Reduced spring flows and drought conditions within the Platte system have promoted encroachment by undesirable woody and herbaceous invasive species. This encroachment has caused the once shallow braided channels of the Platte River to incise. This action has significantly reduced available habitat for roosting and loafing Sandhill Cranes, endangered Whooping Cranes, and millions of waterfowl that annually utilize the Platte River each spring. This change in river morphology has also reduced available nesting habitat for the federally listed Interior...
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The Rainwater Basin wetland complex (RWB) provides critical spring migration habitat for millions of waterfowl annually. As the region was settled, the abundant wetlands were drained for agricultural purposes. The ephemeral nature of these wetlands and lack of contemporary data prompted the Rainwater Basin Joint Venture to acquire aerial photography on an annual basis. Imagery was collected during peak waterfowl migration in the spring of 2004 and annually from 2006 to 2021.
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The North American Breeding Bird Survey (BBS) is an ongoing effort that has collected data on bird populations and trends since 1966. The Rainwater Basin Joint Venture (RWBJV) has used this data from 2005 to 2010 to create species distribution models (SDMs) for target bird populations within Nebraska. Species targeted by this modeling include Dickcissel (DICK), Eastern Meadowlark (EAME), Grasshopper Sparrow (GRSP), and Western Meadowlark (WEME). These species were identified as high-priority Planning Species by the RWBJV Landbird Plan. The SDMs created by this analysis will be used to better inform conservation efforts throughout the state. For this analysis we used the following variable data: Missouri Resource...
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Annual waterfowl (Anseriformes) surveys during Spring migration in the Rainwater Basin Wetland (RWB) Complex 2017-21. Each year a subset of RWB wetlands are selected for survey. Species counts and ancillary data about site conditions are collected using roadside surveys. Sites are revisited periodically through Spring migration. Dry wetlands or wetlands containing concentration pits are removed from the survey but are documented in a separate table.
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The Waters of the United States (WOTUS), or Clean Water Rule, defines which wetlands are under the jurisdiction of the federal government for regulating provisions of the Clean Water Act of 1972. Due to court decisions and administrative changes, the definitions currently in use varies across the United States. The most recent Clean Water Rule, 2015, is in effect for 22 states, the District of Columbia, and U.S. Territories. The remaining 28 states, including Nebraska, are regulated under the 1986/1988 regulatory definition of Waters of the United States, 40 CFR 230.3(s) (EPA 2019). However, in February of April 2019, the two lead federal agencies, the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) and the Department of...
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This shapefile maps the 2012 vegetation communities for all historic wetlands in the Rainwater Basin region of Nebraska, USA. Vegetation communities include cropped areas that rarely pond water, cropped areas that often pond water, bare soil or mudflat, standing water, moist soil species, wetmeadow species, grasses, reed canarygrass, river bulrush, cattail, and woody species. Communities are based on training data from 2012 field vegetation surveys of over 12,000 points. This map is an update of a RWB vegetation map created in 2004. These data were processed by Ele Nugent, Roger Grosse, and Andy Bishop with the Rainwater Basin Joint Venture (RWBJV), with help from RWBJV Geographic Information Systems Laboratory...
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This is a land cover dataset for Nebraska that was most recently updated in 2020 by the Rainwater Basin Joint Venture. This metadata record supplements the complete description of the data in Bishop, A., Grosse,R., Barenberg, A., Volpe, N., and Riens, J. January, Nebraska Land Cover Development Version 2016. Rainwater Basin Joint Venture, U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, Grand Island, Nebraska.
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Historic wetland footprints produced by combining National Wetland Inventory (NWI, 2009 updated), NRCS hydric soils data, and contemporary field surveys. These historic footprints provide the basis for restoration implementation within the Rainwater Basin Wetland Complex. This data was revised in 2016, succeeding the 2004 version. The 2016 revisions included eliminating historic wetland survey data, replacing NWI with the 2009 updated data, and inclusion of Olbut soils as a hydric soil class.
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This is a land cover dataset for Nebraska that was most recently updated in January 2013 by the Rainwater Basin Joint Venture. This metadata record supplements the complete description of the data in Bishop, A., Barenberg, A., Volpe, N., and Grosse, R. January, 2011 Nebraska Land Cover Development. Rainwater Basin Joint Venture, U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, Grand Island, Nebraska.http://rwbjv.org/rainwater2012/wp-content/uploads/2013/06/Nebraska-Landcover-Version-101.pdf
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This shapefile is part of the Rainwater Basin (RWB) Roundout Priority Model to prioritize the acquisition of roundouts in the RWB. Criteria include Acres of Hydric Soil, Wetland Priority, Ownership, Land Use, Wetland Modifications, Roads, Human Infrastructure, Supplemental Water, Concentrated Animal Feedlots, and Power Lines. This shapefile contains the results of the RWB Easement Acquisition Model by the Farm Service Agency's Common Land Unit tracts. This dataset was processed by Roger Grosse and Daniel Uttecht with the Rainwater Basin Joint Venture (RWBJV). Criteria for the Model were developed by the RWBJV GIS Lab and the RWB Acquisition Workgroup.
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This is a land cover dataset for Nebraska that was most recently updated in 2015 by the Rainwater Basin Joint Venture. This metadata record supplements the complete description of the data in Bishop, A., Barenberg, A., Volpe, N., and Grosse, R. January, Nebraska Land Cover Development Version 11. Rainwater Basin Joint Venture, U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, Grand Island, Nebraska.
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