Raster representing climate resilient core sagebrush and growth opportunity areas on federal lands

This dataset contains a raster representing current (2017-2020) core sagebrush, growth opportunity areas, and other rangelands on tribal and federal lands that are estimated to be climate resilient into the future (2030-2060). We determined climate-resiliency by comparing current (2017-2020) core sagebrush, growth opportunity areas, and other rangelands to estimated future (2030-2060) conditions of core and growth opportunity areas under mid-century climate change (Representative Concentration Pathway 8.5) conditions (Doherty et al. 2022). The Department of the Interior (DOI) Sagebrush Keystone Initiative (KI) team worked with partners to identify areas within the sagebrush biome for strategic investments in conservation...

Categories: Data; Types: Downloadable, GeoTIFF, Map Service, Raster; Tags: California, Colorado, Conservation, Idaho, Montana, All tags... Nevada, Oregon, Rangeland, Restoration, Sagebrush, Utah, Wyoming, biota, ecosystems, environment, natural resource management, terrestrial ecosystems, western United States, Fewer tags

Characteristics, presence of erosional features, and cover of vegetation and bare ground on fields formerly enrolled in grassland, wetland, and wildlife practices of the Conservation Reserve Program in the central and western United States from 2017 to 2018

Data included in this data set are from edge-of-field surveys that recorded the presence of erosional features, cover of vegetation and bare ground, and management activities (e.g., haying) on 1092 fields that had expired from three types of conservation practices (grassland, wetland, and wildlife) in the Conservation Reserve Program. Field sampling data were recorded across six US Department of Agriculture Farm Production Regions (Corn belt, Lake states, Mountain, Northern plains, Pacific, Southern plains) from 2017 to 2018. The study area encompassed all or part of 14 states: Washington, Oregon, Idaho, Montana, North Dakota, South Dakota, Minnesota, Iowa, Missouri, Colorado, Nebraska, Kansas, Oklahoma, and Texas....

Categories: Data; Tags: CRP, Central United States, Colorado, Conservation Reserve Program, Idaho, All tags... Iowa, Kansas, Land Use Change, Minnesota, Missouri, Montana, Nebraska, North Dakota, Oklahoma, Oregon, South Dakota, Texas, USGS Science Data Catalog (SDC), Washington, Western United States, bare soil, biota, canopy cover, ecosystems, erosion, grass management, grassland ecosystems, grazing, gullies, haying, mowing, native forbs, native grasses, noxious forbs, noxious grasses, pedastaling, rills, Fewer tags

Sagebrush Collaborative Restoration Landscapes to Support Management Efforts Improving Fire Resiliency and Restoration in the Sagebrush Biome

The sagebrush ecosystem spans over 175 million acres in the western United States, and is biologically, culturally, and economically significant to the country. Many disturbances including prolonged drought, pinyon-juniper encroachment, and cycles of invasive grasses and wildfire, pose significant threats to the resilience of the sagebrush biome. To conserve the sagebrush biome and promote community and economic sustainability, the Department of the Interior’s bureaus and offices are working together with many public and private partners to implement a “defend and grow the core” approach to conserve remaining intact sagebrush habitat and ecosystem functions, as well as restore other habitat types which are important...

Types: Map Service, OGC WFS Layer, OGC WMS Layer, OGC WMS Service; Tags: California, Colorado, Conservation, Ecology, Idaho, All tags... Montana, Nevada, Oregon, Rangeland, Restoration, Sagebrush, USGS Science Data Catalog (SDC), Utah, Wyoming, biota, ecosystems, environment, natural resource management, terrestrial ecosystems, western United States, Fewer tags

Data Release: Possibility for reverse zoonotic transmission of SARS-CoV-2 to free-ranging wildlife: a case study of bats

The table illustrates global patterns of betacoronavirus (β-CoV) associations in bats. The table lists bat species in which betacoronaviruses (β-CoVs) were detected, organized by viral subgenera and clade [for Sarbecorviruses], bat family, bat suborder, and general global region where the species of bat occurs. Reference to the published literature sources of information for each row are listed in the last column.

Categories: Data; Tags: Africa, Asia, Australia, Ecology, Eurasia, All tags... Europe, Latin America, USGS Science Data Catalog (SDC), Wildlife Biology, Wildlife Disease, bats, ecosystems, invasive species, mammals, public health, wildlife disease, Fewer tags

Presence of erosional features and cover of grasses, forbs, and bare ground on fields enrolled in grassland, wetland, and wildlife practices of the Conservation Reserve Program in the central and western United States from 2016 to 2018

Data included in this data set are from in-field and edge-of-field surveys that recorded the presence of erosional features and cover of vegetation and bare ground on 1786 Conservation Reserve Program fields across three types of conservation practices (grassland, wetland, and wildlife). Field sampling data were recorded across six US Department of Agriculture Farm Production Regions (Corn belt, Lake states, Mountain, Northern plains, Pacific, Southern plains) from 2016 to 2018. The study area encompassed all or part of 14 states: Washington, Oregon, Idaho, Montana, North Dakota, South Dakota, Minnesota, Iowa, Missouri, Colorado, Nebraska, Kansas, Oklahoma, and Texas. These data constitute the first national level...

Categories: Data; Tags: CRP, Canopy cover, Central United States, Colorado, Conservation Reserve Program, All tags... Idaho, Iowa, Kansas, Minnesota, Missouri, Montana, Nebraska, North Dakota, Oklahoma, Oregon, South Dakota, Texas, USGS Science Data Catalog (SDC), Washington, Western United States, bare soil, biota, ecosystems, erosion, grassland ecosystems, gullies, native forbs, native grasses, noxious forbs, noxious grasses, pedastaling, rills, Fewer tags

Modeled Streamflow Metrics on Small, Ungaged Stream Reaches in the Upper Colorado River Basin: Data

Modeling streamflow is an important approach for understanding landscape-scale drivers of flow and estimating flows where there are no streamgage records. In this study conducted by the U.S. Geological Survey in cooperation with Colorado State University, the objectives were to model streamflow metrics on small, ungaged streams in the Upper Colorado River Basin and identify streams that are potentially threatened with becoming intermittent under drier climate conditions. The Upper Colorado River Basin is a region that is critical for water resources and also projected to experience large future climate shifts toward a drying climate. A random forest modeling approach was used to model the relationship between streamflow...

Types: Map Service, OGC WFS Layer, OGC WMS Layer, OGC WMS Service; Tags: Ecosystems, Fisheries, Streamflow, USGS Science Data Catalog (SDC), Upper Colorado River Basin, All tags... Upper Colorado River Basin, random forests, random forests, streamflow, streamflow modeling, streamflow modeling, ungaged streams, ungaged streams, Fewer tags