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Summary and Initial Evaluation of Enduring Features Information for the Conterminous USA, with Evaluation of Potential Use for Ecoregion Assessment Concerns about the influence of climate change on biota have emerged over the past decade, and responses in species populations and distribution patterns have already been documented (Parmesan 1996, Thomas and Lennon 1999). Current climates and communities will not simply migrate, but rather will re-form in novel ways over time (Fox 2007; Hunter et al. 1988; Williams and Jackson 2007). Due to the uncertainty of future climatic patterns and species responses, enduring features of the landscape (geophysical settings) are appropriate targets of assessment, planning, and conservation (Anderson and Ferree 2010, Beier and Brost 2010, Brost and Beier 2012; Hunter et al. 1988). Only recently have enduring features been... Categories: Data, Project; Types: Map Service, OGC WFS Layer, OGC WMS Layer, OGC WMS Service; Tags: Climate, Completed, Conservation planning, Consevation design, Data Acquisition and Development, All tags... Datasets/Database, EARTH SCIENCE > LAND SURFACE > LANDSCAPE, EARTH SCIENCE > LAND SURFACE > LANDSCAPE > LANDSCAPE ECOLOGY, EARTH SCIENCE > LAND SURFACE > LANDSCAPE > LANDSCAPE MANAGEMENT, EARTH SCIENCE > LAND SURFACE > LANDSCAPE > LANDSCAPE PATTERNS, EARTH SCIENCE > LAND SURFACE > LANDSCAPE > LANDSCAPE PROCESSES, Ecoregion, Enduring features, LCC Network Science Catalog, Project, Species distributions, Targets, biota, biota, completed, elevation, elevation, environment, environment, geoscientificInformation, geoscientificInformation, Fewer tags State of Wyoming Geospatial Data Management, Information Sharing and Preparation for Decision Support System Development - Migration Corridors WGFD has a quantity of GPS-based animal movement data available for processing. In order to fully integrate this data into existing statewide migration route data layers and/or to use it to develop modeled migration corridor data layers, it must be reviewed, organized appropriately, analyzed, modeled and finally structured to allow seamless integration. The objective of this proposal is to review and examine the data, organize it meaningfully, and present it initially in combination with existing migration routes in order to represent generalized big game migration corridors across the landscapes of Wyoming. This is anticipated as a “first look” product, and serve as a basis for future work to more fully analyze... Categories: Data, Project; Types: Map Service, OGC WFS Layer, OGC WMS Layer, OGC WMS Service; Tags: 2010, 2012, CO-2, CO-3, CO-3, All tags... CO-3, CO-3, CO-3, CO-3, Colorado, Colorado, Connectivity, Data Acquisition and Development, Data Acquisition and Development, Data Management, Data Management and Integration, Data Management and Integration, Datasets/Database, Datasets/Database, EARTH SCIENCE > LAND SURFACE > LANDSCAPE, FY 2012, Federal resource managers, Federal resource managers, Goal 2: Conserve landscape connectivity, Great Northern Landscape Conservation Cooperative, ID-2, ID-2, ID-2, ID-2, ID-2, ID-2, Idaho, Idaho, Idaho, Idaho, Idaho, Idaho, Interested public, Interested public, LCC, LCC Network Science Catalog, Land Use Change, MT-1, MT-1, MT-1, MT-1, MT-1, MT-1, Map, Map, Montana, Montana, Montana, Montana, Montana, Montana, Montana, Population & Habitat Evaluation/Projection, Population & Habitat Evaluation/Projection, Project, Report, Report, Riparian Areas, Rivers & Riparian Corridors, Rocky Mountain, Sage Shrub/Grassland, Sage-Steppe, State agencies, State agencies, UT-1, UT-1, UT-1, UT-1, UT-1, UT-1, Utah, Utah, Utah, Utah, Utah, Utah, Utah, WY-1, WY-1, WY-1, WY-1, WY-1, WY-1, Woodland, Wyoming, Wyoming, Wyoming, completed, decision support, environment, northwest, Fewer tags Carbon sequestration research to benefit grassland conservation in the northern Great Plains This carbon sequestration research is part of a new pilot grassland conservation program to protect at-risk grasslands from conversion to cropland in the northern Great Plains. Natural resources partners have leveraged more than $3 million in private and federal funding to support an innovative program that extends protection of privately-owned grasslands that have expired under the Conservation Reserve Program (CRP). In the past two years alone, the number of CRP acres nationally has dropped from 31.2 million to 27 million. Of the 4.2-million-acre-decline, lands lost in North Dakota and Montana accounted for 1.6 million acres, or 38 percent. The program aims to encourage private landowners to conserve CRP grasslands... Categories: Data, Project; Types: Map Service, OGC WFS Layer, OGC WMS Layer, OGC WMS Service; Tags: Academics & scientific researchers, Conservation NGOs, EARTH SCIENCE > LAND SURFACE > LANDSCAPE, Federal resource managers, Informing Conservation Delivery, All tags... LCC, LCC Network Science Catalog, Plains and Prairie Potholes Landscape Conservation Cooperative, Private land owners, Project, Report, State agencies, accepted, environment, environment, Fewer tags Comparative Analysis of Native Prairie Spatial Delineation Methods in the Prairie Ecozone Native grasslands have been reduced to a fraction of their original extent, with estimated total loss prior to the 1990s of 70% for prairie grassland (Federal Provincial and Territorial Governments of Canada 2010). Conversion of native grassland to cropland and tame hayfields or pasture has been one of the leading drivers of native grassland loss in North America. Degradation of native grasslands also continues in some areas due to changes in natural disturbance regimes such as fire suppression and intensive prolonged cattle grazing, threats from invasive non-native species, fragmentation, intensification of agriculture, and economic development associated with population growth(Federal Provincial and Territorial... Categories: Data, Project; Types: Map Service, OGC WFS Layer, OGC WMS Layer, OGC WMS Service; Tags: 2015, EARTH SCIENCE > LAND SURFACE > LANDSCAPE, LCC, LCC Network Science Catalog, Monitoring, All tags... Plains and Prairie Potholes Landscape Conservation Cooperative, Project, Regional & county planners, Report, State agencies, completed, environment, environment, Fewer tags Optimization at the infrastructure-connectivity nexus: boosting cost-efficiency of restoration using dam condition data for Lake Michigan Aging infrastructure is creating a pressing national need to align priorities between civil engineering and other interests. Restoring ecological connectivity of river networks that are fragmented by dams and road crossings has become a prominent objective for environmental managers across the country. A mature decision-support framework and newly available data on the condition of dams throughout the Lake Michigan basin offer unique opportunities to test for potential cost-efficiency gains from sharing the costs of removing decrepit dams between environmental and engineering organizations. At sites where these interests align, genuine win-win scenarios could advance both ecological connectivity and infrastructure... Categories: Data, Project; Types: Map Service, OGC WFS Layer, OGC WMS Layer, OGC WMS Service; Tags: Academics & scientific researchers, Applications and Tools, Conservation NGOs, Consevation design, EARTH SCIENCE > LAND SURFACE > LANDSCAPE, All tags... Federal resource managers, LCC Network Science Catalog, Lake Michigan, Project, State agencies, Tribes, dams, environment, environment, onGoing, Fewer tags Development of Landscape Health Index (LHI) for Missouri Priority Geographies Development of landscape health index Categories: Data, Project; Types: Map Service, OGC WFS Layer, OGC WMS Layer, OGC WMS Service; Tags: EARTH SCIENCE > LAND SURFACE > LANDSCAPE, Midwest R3 Science Applications, Project, environment, funded Genomic Determination of Hoary Bat Population History and Trend Observing and counting bats is extremely difficult. Bats hide during the day, fly in darkness, and most species in the United States (US) become inactive and inaccessible in cryptic hibernation sites for 7-8 months each year. More than 40 different species of bats occur year-round in the US, yet reasonable population estimates exist for very few. Populations of US bats face new and unprecedented threats from white-nose syndrome (WNS) and industrial wind turbines. Like WNS, wind energy development might adversely affect entire populations of bats. Species of bats dying at wind turbines in the greatest numbers rank among the most cryptic, elusive, and poorly understood. Hoary bats (Lasiurus cinereus) compose approximately... Categories: Data, Project; Types: Map Service, OGC WFS Layer, OGC WMS Layer, OGC WMS Service; Tags: EARTH SCIENCE > LAND SURFACE > LANDSCAPE, Hoary bat, Midwest R3 Science Applications, Project, environment, All tags... funded, genetics, genomics, population dynamics, Fewer tags Creating a detailed vegetation classification and digital vegetation map for Squaw Creek NWR Creating a detailed vegetation classification and digital map for Squaw Creek National Wildlife Refuge to use for habitat management decisions and tracking land use changes. Categories: Data, Project; Types: Map Service, OGC WFS Layer, OGC WMS Layer, OGC WMS Service; Tags: 2012, 2013, Academics & scientific researchers, Data Acquisition and Development, Datasets/Database, All tags... EARTH SCIENCE > LAND SURFACE > LANDSCAPE, Eastern Tallgrass Prairie and Big Rivers Landscape Conservation Cooperative, Federal resource managers, LCC, LCC Network Science Catalog, Landscape Conservation Cooperatives, Loess Bluffs National Wildlife Refuge, MO-06, Map, Project, completed, eastern tallgrass prairie and big rivers landscape conservation cooperative, environment, environment, map, vegetation map, Fewer tags Literature search on environmental affects of agricultural practices Researchers with U.S. Geological Survey Water Science Centers in Iowa, Kansas and Massachusetts collaborated to conduct a comprehensive literature search of both published and ongoing research (2000-present) that sheds light on the interactions between climate change, agriculture and water quality across the combined geographies of the Eastern Tallgrass Prairie and Big Rivers LCC and neighboring Upper Midwest and Great Lakes LCC. Project investigators compiled the information in a resource library by geographic location, providing an organized structure for future examination of all research related to interactions between climate change, agriculture and water quality in these two regions. Categories: Data, Project; Types: Map Service, OGC WFS Layer, OGC WMS Layer, OGC WMS Service; Tags: 2012, Academics & scientific researchers, Datasets/Database, Decision Support, EARTH SCIENCE > LAND SURFACE > LANDSCAPE, All tags... Eastern Tallgrass Prairie and Big Rivers Landscape Conservation Cooperative, Gulf Restoration, LCC, LCC Network Science Catalog, Project, Report, agriculture, best management practices, climate, completed, environment, environment, water quality, Fewer tags Prairie STRIPS An Iowa State University research team in collaboration with Neal Smith National Wildlife Refuge and other partners has discovered that strategically adding a little bit of prairie back onto the agricultural landscape can result in many benefits – for water and soil quality, habitat for wildlife and pollinators, as well as opportunities for biomass production. With assistance from ETPBR member USDA Farm Service Agency, research has shown how small amounts of native prairie vegetation integrated within corn and soybean row crops produce environmental benefits at levels disproportionately greater than their extent and in a cost effective manner. The project has now transitioned to demonstration and evaluation of the... Categories: Data, Project; Types: Map Service, OGC WFS Layer, OGC WMS Layer, OGC WMS Service; Tags: 2013, 2014, Academics & scientific researchers, Applications and Tools, Conservation Design, All tags... Conservation NGOs, Data Acquisition and Development, EARTH SCIENCE > LAND SURFACE > LANDSCAPE, Eastern Tallgrass Prairie and Big Rivers Landscape Conservation Cooperative, Federal resource managers, Gulf Restoration, IA-01, IA-02, IA-03, IA-04, Informing Conservation Delivery, Iowa, LCC, LCC Network Science Catalog, Methodology/Protocol, Neal Smith National Wildlife Refuge, Policy makers & regulators, Private land owners, Project, Socio-economics/Ecosystem Services, State agencies, Training/Outreach/Workshop, agriculture, completed, ecosystem services, environment, environment, pollination, water quality, Fewer tags Milkweeds for Monarchs St Louis Urban Prairie Education, Outreach and Research Project In June 2015, the Eastern Tallgrass Prairie and Big Rivers Landscape Conservation Cooperative (LCC) of the U.S. Fish & Wildlife Service (USFWS) granted $80,000 to the City of St. Louis (City) to promote urban monarch conservation by expanding activities associated with Milkweeds for Monarchs: The St. Louis Butterfly Project (M4M). Generally speaking, the USFWS grant was to: (1) enhance urban education and outreach efforts, and (2) conduct research on urban monarch habitat. The project spent $51,583.57 on activities for ed and $27,785.68 for research. The City’s Office of the Mayor used a portion of the funds to contract a part time individual to act as a Monarch Community Liaison, and used the majority of the grant... Categories: Data, Project; Types: Map Service, OGC WFS Layer, OGC WMS Layer, OGC WMS Service; Tags: 2015, Academics & scientific researchers, Applications and Tools, Conservation NGOs, EARTH SCIENCE > LAND SURFACE > LANDSCAPE, All tags... Eastern Tallgrass Prairie and Big Rivers Landscape Conservation Cooperative, Informing Conservation Delivery, Interested public, K-12 students & teachers, LCC, LCC Network Science Catalog, MO-01, MO-02, MO-03, Methodology/Protocol, Missouri, Other, Pilot/Case Study, Population & Habitat Evaluation/Projection, Private land owners, Project, Report, Socio-economics/Ecosystem Services, Training/Outreach/Workshop, Urban Ecosystems, completed, environment, environment, Fewer tags Relocation of Eastern Box Turtles to reclaimed mineland at the Patoka River NWR Construct enclosures at Columbia Mine to house approximately 60 turtles (translocated animals) that were collected off of the right-of-way for sections 2 and 4 of I-69. Monitor the behavior, survival and reproduction of trans-located box turtles during the captive phase of the new home-range adoption process. Determine the population and habit-use characteristics of the remnant, resident box turtle population at Columbia Mine. Determine the genetics profile of individual trans-located, resident and hatchling turtles and to conduct parentage analysis of hatchlings or eggs detected. Monitor the survival, movements and habitat use of post-release, trans-located turtles for 2 years post-release. Categories: Data, Project; Types: Map Service, OGC WFS Layer, OGC WMS Layer, OGC WMS Service; Tags: 2012, 2013, 2014, 2015, Academics & scientific researchers, All tags... Data Acquisition and Development, EARTH SCIENCE > LAND SURFACE > LANDSCAPE, Eastern Tallgrass Prairie and Big Rivers Landscape Conservation Cooperative, Federal resource managers, IN-08, Indiana, Informing Conservation Delivery, LCC, LCC Network Science Catalog, Landscape Conservation Cooperatives, Methodology/Protocol, Patoka River National Wildlife Refuge, Pilot/Case Study, Policy makers & regulators, Project, captive propagation, completed, eastern box turtle, environment, environment, onGoing, road construction, species relocation, Fewer tags Building the Foundation for International Conservation Planning for the Plains and Prairie Pothole Ecosystems This project will build a Geographic Information System (GIS) database for the Plains and Prairie Potholes LCC comprised of1) wetland abundance, 2) land cover, 3) primary productivity, and 4) wetness. Ultimately, the database will provide foundational information for future research and will facilitate management and conservation activities for multiple species across the entire LCC. Categories: Data, Project; Types: Map Service, OGC WFS Layer, OGC WMS Layer, OGC WMS Service; Tags: Conservation NGOs, Conservation Planning, EARTH SCIENCE > LAND SURFACE > LANDSCAPE, Federal resource managers, LCC, All tags... LCC Network Science Catalog, Plains and Prairie Potholes Landscape Conservation Cooperative, Project, Report, State agencies, Tribes, completed, environment, environment, Fewer tags Grassland Bird Conservation on Working Landscapes: Spatial analysis linking populations to habitat The project will utilize a 4.5 million acre study area on the Montana Glaciated Plains. The objectives are to (1) identify environmental conditions and management practices that will maintain habitat for grassland birds but not impact ranching sustainability, and (2) identify areas on the landscape that have the greatest conservation potential for grassland birds. This spatial analysis will provide the framework for a rigorous assessment of management actions on the Montana Glaciated Plains. Categories: Data, Project; Types: Map Service, OGC WFS Layer, OGC WMS Layer, OGC WMS Service; Tags: 2010, 2010, 2011, 2011, 2012, All tags... 2013, Conservation NGOs, EARTH SCIENCE > LAND SURFACE > LANDSCAPE, Federal resource managers, Informing Conservation Delivery, LCC, LCC Network Science Catalog, Landscape Conservation Cooperatives, Plains and Prairie Potholes Landscape Conservation Cooperative, Population and Habitat Evaluation, Private land owners, Project, Report, State agencies, Tribes, bird populations, completed, environment, environment, glacial, grassland brids, plains and prairie potholes landscape conservation cooperative, Fewer tags Develop standardized, incremental, and sustainable monitoring strategy for habitat restoration activities Federal assistance is being provided to develop a coordinated, standardized, and incremental monitoring strategy to apply an adaptive management approach to habitat conservation projects located in the Upper Mississippi River Basin (UMRB). To accomplish this goal, recipient intends to indentify scope of current monitoring efforts and identify gaps in monitoring needs related to aquatic habitat restoration in the UMRB, address key resource challenges, provide coordination services to partners, and develop and implement a landscape scale strategy for monitoring habitat restoration projects within the UMRB. These actions will help far beyond the scope of Fishers and Farmers Partnership (FFP) and the Plains and Prairie... Categories: Data, Project; Types: Map Service, OGC WFS Layer, OGC WMS Layer, OGC WMS Service; Tags: Conservation NGOs, Data Acquisition and Development, EARTH SCIENCE > LAND SURFACE > LANDSCAPE, EARTH SCIENCE SERVICES > DATA MANAGEMENT/DATA HANDLING > DATA DELIVERY, Federal resource managers, All tags... LCC Network Science Catalog, Monitoring, Private land owners, Project, Report, State agencies, Tribes, environment, environment, funded, onGoing, Fewer tags North Dakota Wetland and Grassland Conservation Situation Analysis Workshop Representatives from the PPP LCC, PPJV, federal, state and NGO conservation organizationswill convene in Bismarck, North Dakota to systematically and explicitly define the grassland andwetland conservation situation/context, including direct and indirect threats to grasslands andwetlands, as well as current and potential actions, including conservation easements, that can betaken to reduce threats. Additionally, participants will consider how the grassland and wetlandconservation easements fit within the Service’s broader efforts to achieve social impact (e.g.,increased public engagement in conservation and support for the USFWS mission). Through theprocess of conducting a situation analysis, and developing a conceptual... Categories: Data, Project; Types: Map Service, OGC WFS Layer, OGC WMS Layer, OGC WMS Service; Tags: Conservation NGOs, EARTH SCIENCE > HUMAN DIMENSIONS > ECONOMIC RESOURCES, EARTH SCIENCE > LAND SURFACE > LANDSCAPE, Federal resource managers, Informing Conservation Delivery, All tags... LCC Network Science Catalog, Project, Report, State agencies, Tribes, completed, environment, environment, onGoing, Fewer tags Regional Priorities for Focusing Freshwater Mussel Conservation in Streams While wildlife species do not respect political boundaries, conservation planning and implementation is often restricted by them. Thus, regionally rare species can be placed in the unenviable position of not being prioritized by any jurisdiction that they inhabit due to competition for scarce conservation resources. A regional conservation framework will enable states to cooperate toward common goals and share the costs and accomplishments of regionally conserving at risk species. However, the development of a regional conservation framework is inhibited by patchy species occurrence data. These data gaps can be informed by species distribution models. This project will compile available mussel data, develop species... Categories: Data, Project; Types: Map Service, OGC WFS Layer, OGC WMS Layer, OGC WMS Service; Tags: EARTH SCIENCE > LAND SURFACE > LANDSCAPE, Midwest R3 Science Applications, Project, accepted, environment Assessing the taxonomic status of the red wolf and the Mexican Gray wolf As part of the March 29, 2018 appropriations bills, Congress directed the US Fish and Wildlife Service (FWS) to obtain an independent assessment on the taxonomic status of the red wolf, Canis rufus, and the Mexican gray wolf, Canis lupus baileyi. Currently, the FWS considers the red wolf a valid taxonomic species and the Mexican gray wolf a valid taxonomic subspecies. Both the red wolf and the Mexican gray wolf are listed as endangered under the U.S. Endangered Species Act (ESA; United States Public Law No. 93-205; United States Code Title 16 Section 1531 et seq.). However, there is ongoing debate about their taxonomic status.Major barriers to the capability of FWS to re-establish healthy populations of wild wolves... Categories: Data, Project; Types: Map Service, OGC WFS Layer, OGC WMS Layer, OGC WMS Service; Tags: Decision support, EARTH SCIENCE > LAND SURFACE > LANDSCAPE, Project, Publication, Science Applications, All tags... completed, environment, Fewer tags Ecological Assessments of the Gulf Coastal Plains & Ozarks geography/Landscape Conservation Design This project will support the hiring of a detail position to work with the Geomatics Coordinator to complete current assessments of terrestrial systems focusing on landscape endpoints as described in the GCPO LCC’s Integrated Science Agenda, then begin the process of applying species endpoints to these landscapes through a Landscape Conservation Design process for the entire GCPO geography. This rapid ecological assessment will seek to answer the following questions: (1) How much habitat is in a desired ecological state, as defined by the Integrated Science Agenda? (2) How much more habitat is needed? (3) Where is habitat that is in the desired ecological state? (4) Where are opportunities to manage improved or... Categories: Data, Project; Tags: Conservation planning, Datasets/Database, EARTH SCIENCE > BIOSPHERE > ECOSYSTEMS, EARTH SCIENCE > LAND SURFACE > LAND USE/LAND COVER, EARTH SCIENCE > LAND SURFACE > LANDSCAPE, All tags... Informing Conservation Delivery, LCC Network Science Catalog, Map, Population and Habitat Evaluation/Projection, Project, Report, biota, completed, environment, planningCadastre, Fewer tags Aquatic Integrity and Invasives: Shared Landscape Outcomes In May 2014, the GNLCC Steering Committee approved two pilot projects explore approaches to landscape-scale coordination to enhance science-based management across the GNLCC. The two ‘Shared Landscape Outcomes’ pilots were designed to assess and focus on specific pairs of a GNLCC Goal and a priority landscape stressor as defined in the Strategic Conservation Framework and focus the approach at the entire GNLCC scale. The two pilot projects focused on (1) the Aquatic Integrity goal and Invasives stressor (described here) and (2) the Connectivity goal and Land Use Change stressor (see: https://www.fws.gov/science/catalog)AIS Pilot:The challenge of managing for invasive species creates an opportunity for the GNLCC... Categories: Data, Project; Types: Map Service, OGC WFS Layer, OGC WMS Layer, OGC WMS Service; Tags: Alpine Lakes, Aquatic Connectivity, Cascadia, Columbia Basin, Decision Support, All tags... EARTH SCIENCE > LAND SURFACE > LANDSCAPE, Federal resource managers, Goal 3: Maintain hydrologic regimes, Informing Conservation Delivery, Invasive Species, LCC Network Science Catalog, Monitoring, Project, Report, Riverine, Rivers & Riparian Corridors, Rocky Mountain, Sage-Steppe, State agencies, Training/Outreach/Workshop, Wetlands, completed, environment, Fewer tags 1 2 3 4 5 ... 8 »