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The effects of soil composition on human and ecological health are well documented. Soil can be a pathway for potentially toxic elements of natural or anthropogenic origin to enter the human or animal body through ingestion, inhalation, or dermal absorption and to enter plants by absorption through root tissues. A soil geochemical survey was conducted in the WLCI study area in southwest Wyoming as part of the long-term monitoring objective of this project. The primary purpose of the survey was to determine the abundance and spatial distribution of 44 chemical elements in soil. Such baseline information is needed by land managers to aid in recognizing and quantifying changes in soil composition caused by either anthropogenic...
Pygmy rabbits are a Wyoming SGCN, and information about how they respond to landscape-scale habitat fragmentation and ongoing energy development is incomplete. Pygmy rabbits are distributed in a patchy manner across the landscape, with small “colonies” of rabbits inhabiting irregularly distributed patches of tall, dense sagebrush. Movements among suitable sagebrush patches are necessary for successful breeding, dispersal, and maintenance of genetic diversity. Threats to pygmy rabbit populations include loss or degradation of suitable habitat patches and habitat fragmentation in the form of barriers to movements between patches. Providing scientific information to help address these threats is at the core of USGS...
Includes five rasters: CP_Soil_AWC - Available water capacity (floating point raster). CP_Soil_Depth_to_Restrict - Depth to first restrictive layer (floating point raster). CP_Soil_Depth_to_Restrict _Classed - Depth to first restrictive layer classified for modeling. CP_Soil_Texture_Classes - Soil texture classes. CP_Soil_Rast - Base raster that includes all values for preceding rasters in its attribute table.
Project Synopsis: Raven control (removal) efforts of varying intensity have been carried out around lambing grounds in Lincoln, Sweetwater, Uinta, and Carbon counties in Wyoming by United States Department of Agriculture/Wildlife Services (WS). This has provided a unique opportunity to study the potential effects of raven removal on sage-grouse nest success. Increased anthropogenic development (energy development and urbanization) may have a negative impact on sage-grouse nesting success and productivity as a result of increased raven populations and raven depredation of sage-grouse nests. Structures associated with anthropogenic development may provide perches that ravens need to forage or ravens may be drawn...
Categories: Data,
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Types: Downloadable,
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OGC WMS Layer,
ScienceBase Project,
Shapefile;
Tags: Habitat,
avian species,
habitat conservation project,
sage grouse,
wildlife
Project Synopsis: This 2-year project will replace 4 strand barbed wire fence with 3 or 4 pole buck rail fence or 3 strand barbed wire with a top wooden rail at critical sections of the boundary of Fossil Butte National Monument (FOBU) (8,198 acres). FOBU's current fence is constructed using 4 strands of barbed and barbless wire on steel t-posts. A good share of it does not meet the standards recommended for wildlife friendly fence. This project would correct this deficiency in many of the critical areas where wildlife cross the monument boundary. Fossil Butte is within Wyoming's core sagegrouse area, contains winter range for elk and summer range for pronghorn and mule deer. No grazing is permitted within...
Categories: Project;
Types: Map Service,
OGC WFS Layer,
OGC WMS Layer,
OGC WMS Service,
ScienceBase Project;
Tags: Habitat,
deer,
elk,
habitat conservation project,
pronghorn,
Project Synopsis: project will focus on springs, seeps and reservoirs in sage-grouse core habitat located within the Ruby Priority area. Other species of concern include: Bonneville and Colorado River Cutthroat trout, northern leopard frog, northern leatherside and roundtail chub, flannelmouth and bluehead suckers, big game, raptors and other migratory birds. Water resources will be mapped, inventoried and prioritized for future project/riparian developments. BLM mapped and inventoried approximately 190 reservoirs and 50 springs/seeps in 2011 (approximately one-third of the known springs, seep and reservoirs). BLM would like to continue this project and add to the existing knowledge. By using the data collected...
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Types: Map Service,
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OGC WMS Layer,
OGC WMS Service,
ScienceBase Project;
Tags: Habitat,
assessment,
habitat conservation project,
riparian,
sage grouse
Non-dynamically generated datasets are often rich with scenarios, allowing planners to characterize climate projection uncertainty and plan assumptions within that uncertainty. However, questions remain about the validity of downscaled data produced by such non-dynamical (statistical) methods, particularly when land-atmosphere interactions are important for defining local climate and when non-dynamical methods assume such interactions will remain static even as larger scale climate changes might influence such interactions (U.S. Geological Survey [USGS] Circular 1331). Water agencies will continue to face decisions about which downscaled data to use and implicitly which downscaling method and spatial resolution...
Categories: Project;
Types: ScienceBase Project;
Tags: Colorado Headwaters Project,
Habitat,
climate change,
dynamical downscaling,
hydrologic metrics,
Riparian habitats along regulated rivers are important providers of native insects to pollinate nearby irrigated orchards and crop fields. Commercially managed bees are suffering serious declines due to introduced parasites and pathogens (National Academy of Sciences [NAS] 2007), increasing the importance of native pollinators in agricultural production (Winfree et al. 2007). The populations of native pollinators relying on riparian habitats, in turn, are tightly coupled to the status of riparian plants and on the processes that ensure plant population persistence. Both of these factors are strongly linked to river hydrology. We will conduct a literature review, examine the potential consequences of climate-induced...
Categories: Project;
Types: ScienceBase Project;
Tags: Science,
bees,
climate change,
riparian habitat,
riparian pollinators,
The USGS Energy Resources Program assesses coal, oil and gas, and uranium resources, as well as environmental effects of energy resource occurrence and use. To identify the regions where energy resources are most likely to be developed, we apply a geologic understanding to emerging patterns of extraction for each energy commodity and assess the potential for undiscovered resources. Our studies include (1) maintaining a compilation of public and proprietary information on subsurface petroleum (wells installed) for the Greater Green River Basin, (2) developing new geographic information system products that portray geologic studies of energy resources, (3) automating updates of the database on oil and gas development...
Purchase a conservation easement on approximately 3,008 acres of private land classified as crucial winter range. The properties being considered for this conservation easement are located in both Sublette and Lincoln counties in the LaBarge Creek and the Fontenelle Creek drainages. These lands are classified as crucial winter range and yearlong range for elk, deer, moose, sage grouse and pronghorn. Additionally documented movement of pronghorn through this area to summer ranges to the north have identified this as an important migration corridor. Also numerous species non-game birds and mammals including Species Of Greatest Conservation Need identified in the Wyoming Game and Fish Departments “Comprehensive Wildlife...
Categories: Project;
Types: ScienceBase Project;
Tags: Habitat,
big game crucial winter range,
elk,
habitat conservation project,
moose,
Due to anthropogenic activities and large stochastic events within the drainage, Gooseberry Creek no longer has a population of CRC above a man made Gabion structure. Gooseberry Creek is a small tributary and cannot support a large population of CRC to persist without connectivity to Trout Creek and Sage Creek. When passage is provided through the structures, approximately 1.5 miles of Gooseberry Creek will be available for CRC and other native fish for spawning, rearing and other life history needs. This project is part of an ongoing effort to improve aquatic and riparian habitat within the Greater Little Mountain area to increase the range of the native Colorado River cutthroat (CRC) trout. The Gooseberry Fish...
Categories: Project;
Types: Map Service,
OGC WFS Layer,
OGC WMS Layer,
OGC WMS Service,
ScienceBase Project;
Tags: Habitat,
aquatic,
fish passage,
habitat conservation project,
riparian
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