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

Support to Western States Crucial Habitat Assessment Tools

The SRLCC provided funds to the states of Arizona and New Mexico to support development of the states Crucial Habitat Assessment Tools (CHATs) which provide a decision support system to better incorporate wildlife values, sensitive animals and plants, and important ecosystem features into land use decision-making to reduce conflicts and surprises.Several states have released wildlife mapping tools that are the foundation for displaying crucial wildlife and corridor information. The state and regional CHATs are non-regulatory, and give project planners and the general public access to credible scientific data on a broad scale for use in project analysis, siting and planning. This includes large-scale development...

Categories: Data, Project; Types: ArcGIS REST Map Service, ArcGIS Service Definition, Downloadable, Map Service, OGC WFS Layer, OGC WMS Layer, OGC WMS Service; Tags: AZ-01, AZ-02, AZ-03, AZ-04, AZ-05, All tags... AZ-06, AZ-07, AZ-08, AZ-09, Applications and Tools, Arizona, Data Acquisition and Development, Datasets/Database, Decision Support, Four Corners, GIS, GIS, Green River Basin, LCC, LCC, LCC Network Science Catalog, Map, Mule Deer and Elk, NM-01, NM-02, NM-03, Native Fish, New Mexico, Project, SRLCC, Sage-steppe, State agencies, Upper Rio Grande, Western United States, completed, crucial habitat, crucial habitat, crucial habitat assessment, decision support system, decision support system, decision support systems, development, development, development, ecosystems, ecosystems, ecosystems, sensitive animals, sensitive animals, sensitive animals, sensitive plants, sensitive plants, sensitive plants, wildlife, wildlife, wildlife, Fewer tags

Providing High Resolution Connectivity Maps for Greater Sage-grouse in the Great Northern Landscape Using State of the Art Genomics

Greater sage-grouse genetic connectivity is essential to the species persistence across the Great Northern landscape; without such connectivity the greater sage-grouse may suffer the same fate as many other related species of grouse, which disappeared from the middle and eastern portion of the United States due to loss of habitat coupled with inbreeding depression. To prevent isolation in the face of energy development and other landscape changes it is essential that we evaluate both fine-scale connectivity and assign relative importance to different leks (breeding populations) on the landscape. This massive task cannot be accomplished with existing tools and maps; fortunately, advanced molecular genomic analyses...

Categories: Data, Project; Types: Map Service, OGC WFS Layer, OGC WMS Layer, OGC WMS Service; Tags: 2012, AZ-1, Academics & scientific researchers, Alberta, Arizona, All tags... Arizona, CA-1, CA-1, CA-1, CA-1, CA-4, CA-4, CA-4, CA-4, CA-8, CA-8, CA-8, CA-8, CO-2, CO-2, CO-2, CO-2, CO-3, CO-3, CO-3, CO-3, CO-4, CO-4, CO-4, CO-4, CO-5, CO-5, CO-5, CO-5, California, California, California, California, California, Climate Change, Co, Co, Co, Co, Colorado, Colorado Plateau Management Zone, Columbia Basin Management Zone, Data Acquisition and Development, FY 2012, Federal resource managers, Goal 2: Conserve landscape connectivity, Great Plains Management Zone, Greater Sage-Grouse, ID-1, ID-1, ID-1, ID-1, ID-2, ID-2, ID-2, ID-2, Idaho, Informing Conservation Delivery, LCC Network Science Catalog, Land Use Change, MT-1, MT-1, MT-1, MT-1, Map, Methodology/Protocol, Monitoring, Montana, ND-1, ND-1, ND-1, ND-1, NE-3, NE-3, NE-3, NE-3, NM-3, NM-3, NM-3, NM-3, NV-2, NV-2, NV-2, NV-2, NV-4, NV-4, NV-4, NV-4, Nebraska, Nevada, New Mexico, North Dakota, Northern Great Basin Management Zone, OR-2, OR-2, OR-2, OR-2, OR-4, OR-4, OR-4, OR-4, Oregon, Project, Publication, Rocky Mountain, SD-1, SD-1, SD-1, SD-1, Sage Shrub/Grassland, Sage-Steppe, Saskatchewan, Snake River Plain Management Zone, South Dakota, Southern Great Basin Management Zone, State agencies, UT-1, UT-1, UT-1, UT-1, UT-2, UT-2, UT-2, UT-2, UT-3, UT-3, UT-3, UT-3, UT-4, UT-4, UT-4, UT-4, Utah, WA-3, WA-3, WA-3, WA-3, WA-4, WA-4, WA-4, WA-4, WA-5, WA-5, WA-5, WA-5, WA-8, WA-8, WA-8, WA-8, WY-1, WY-1, WY-1, WY-1, Washington, Wyoming, Wyoming Basins Management Zone, completed, environment, 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

Landscape Conservation Design in the Columbia Plateau Ecoregion

The Pacific Region National Wildlife Refuge System developed a strategic approach to identify region-wide land/habitat conservation priorities. This approach was piloted in the Columbia Plateau Ecoregion and resulted in a high-level landscape-scale conservation design. Working closely with conservation partners in the region, we developed a data management and analysis model that builds from existing data sets and can be shared easily with other partners.FY20122012 Objectives: Document a case study on implementing strategic conservation design for the refuge system, which can serve as a model and be applied to other geographic areas Develop a clear picture of landscape scale priorities in the Columbia Plateau, along...

Categories: Data, Project; Types: Map Service, OGC WFS Layer, OGC WMS Layer, OGC WMS Service; Tags: Applications and Tools, Aquatic Connectivity, CA-1, California, California, All tags... Climate Change, Columbia Basin, Columbia Plateau, Columbia Plateau, Connectivity, Conservation Design, Conservation Planning, Data Acquisition and Development, Datasets/Database, Ecoregion, Federal resource managers, Goal 1: Maintain large, intact landscapes, Goal 2: Conserve landscape connectivity, Goal 3: Maintain hydrologic regimes, Goal 4: Promote landscape-scale disturbances, ID-1, ID-1, ID-1, ID-1, ID-2, ID-2, ID-2, ID-2, Idaho, Idaho, Idaho, Idaho, Idaho, Invasive Species, LCC Network Science Catalog, Land Use Change, NV-2, NV-2, NV-2, NV-2, Nevada, Nevada, Nevada, Nevada, Nevada, OR-2, OR-2, OR-2, OR-2, Oregon, Oregon, Oregon, Oregon, Oregon, Project, Regional & county planners, Report, Riparian Areas, Riverine, Sage Shrub/Grassland, Sage-Steppe, State agencies, UT-1, UT-1, UT-1, UT-1, Utah, Utah, Utah, Utah, Utah, WA-3, WA-3, WA-3, WA-3, WA-4, WA-4, WA-4, WA-4, WA-5, WA-5, WA-5, WA-5, WA-8, WA-8, WA-8, WA-8, WY-1, WY-1, WY-1, WY-1, Washington, Washington, Washington, Washington, Washington, Watershed Uplands, Wyoming, Wyoming, Wyoming, Wyoming, Wyoming, completed, environment, Fewer tags

SageSTEP Longterm Ecological Monitoring Network

Proposed work will monitor for five years vegetation, fuels, wildlife, insects, and weather at 10 Sagebrush Steppe Treatment Evaluation Project (SageSTEP) sites, all of which have been treated to reduce either juniper encroachment (woodland sites) or cheatgrass invasion (sagebrush/cheatgrass sites). Monitoring of treatment response over the long term will lead to a better understanding of the extent to which managers can manipulate vegetation, fuels, and wildlife habitat in the context of climate change.FY2010Objectives:1) assess longterm trajectories in populations of key plant and animal species, and link these trajectories to management restoration treatments and to climate change; 2) measure total ecosystem...

Categories: Data, Project; Types: Map Service, OGC WFS Layer, OGC WMS Layer, OGC WMS Service; Tags: Academics & scientific researchers, Columbia Basin, Ecological Monitoring, Federal resource managers, Goal 4: Promote landscape-scale disturbances, All tags... Invasive Species, LCC Network Science Catalog, Land Use Change, Monitoring, OR-2, Oregon, Oregon, Project, Report, Sage Shrub/Grassland, Sage Step Bridge Creek 5mi Buffer, Sage Step Devine Rdge 5mi Buffer, Sage Step Moses Coulee 5mi Buffer, Sage Step Saddle Mtn 5mi Buffer, Sage-Steppe, SageSTEP, Training/Outreach/Workshop, WA-4, WA-4, WA-4, WA-4, Washington, Washington, Washington, Washington, Washington, Website, completed, environment, Fewer tags

CED: Gunnison Sage-grouse Recovery Tracking Module Dashboard

The CED has been coordinating with CO ES and GUSG Stakeholders to identify needs for tracking implementation (and effectiveness) of recovery actions for GUSG. We propose to develop a CED-module aimed at monitoring recovery actions identified in the [draft] GUSG Recovery Plan and associated Implementation Strategy. We will engage stakeholders/partners to develop an easy-to-use system and dashboard for reporting accomplishments and assessing the progress made to meeting goals/objectives identified to recovery GUSG across their range. This funding would be focues on the dahsboard reporting feature of the module.This effort will provide a necessary tracking system that improve transparency and inform broad-scale planning,...

Categories: Data, Project; Types: Map Service, OGC WFS Layer, OGC WMS Layer, OGC WMS Service; Tags: CO, Project, SA Science Catalog, Sage-Steppe, Sagebrush, All tags... Strategic Science - 1420, USFWS Science Applications Science Catalog, UT, environment, onGoing, Fewer tags

Species Adaptations to Climate Change: Baseline Data for Grassland, Sagebrush, and Riparian - Associated Landbirds in Bird Conservation Region 10

This region-wide coordinated bird monitoring program, supported by state, federal, tribal, nongovernmental organizations, and two statewide bird conservation partnerships, is designed to provide spatially-referenced baseline data for science-based biological planning and conservation design for the Great Northern LCC and its partners that is directly comparable with other landscapes and BCRs. We are requesting a third year of funding to continue sampling in BCR10 Montana and Idaho to enhance our ability to make robust inference to bird populations on grassland, shrublands, and riparian systems. These data currently are being used by project partners to develop spatially-explicit models that will allow assessment...

Categories: Data, Project; Types: Map Service, OGC WFS Layer, OGC WMS Layer, OGC WMS Service; Tags: Applications and Tools, BCR 10, Baseline Data, Climate Change, Data Acquisition and Development, All tags... Datasets/Database, Federal resource managers, Goal 2: Conserve landscape connectivity, ID-1, ID-2, ID-2, ID-2, ID-2, ID-2, ID-2, Idaho, Idaho, LCC Network Science Catalog, Land Use Change, MT-1, MT-1, MT-1, MT-1, MT-1, MT-1, Montana, Montana, Montana, Montana, Montana, Montana, Montana, Population & Habitat Evaluation/Projection, Project, Report, Riparian Areas, Rocky Mountain, Sage Shrub/Grassland, Sage-Steppe, State agencies, Tribes, WY-1, WY-1, WY-1, WY-1, WY-1, WY-1, Woodland, Wyoming, Wyoming, Wyoming, Wyoming, Wyoming, Wyoming, Wyoming, completed, environment, Fewer tags

Weather variability and sagebrush songbird demography

Compliation of long-term data set on weather patterns and energy development impacts on 3 sagebrush obligate migratory birds. Will result in several peer-reviewed scientific publications.

Categories: Data, Project; Types: Map Service, OGC WFS Layer, OGC WMS Layer, OGC WMS Service; Tags: Project, SA Science Catalog, Sage-Steppe, Sagebrush, Strategic Science - 1420, All tags... USFWS Science Applications Science Catalog, WY, environment, onGoing, Fewer tags

Washington Connectivity: Columbia Basin

Our 2010 statewide connectivity analysis identified broad-scale priority areas for connectivity conservation. More detailed, finer-scale analyses will give land managers the information they need to begin prioritizing and implementing conservation actions. The Columbia Plateau (Appendix A, Fig. 1) was selected for the first ecoregional-scale analysis for two reasons. First, several climate models suggest that the Columbia Plateau Ecoregion in Washington is likely to be a stronghold of shrubsteppe ecosystems under climate change. Second, despite the high level of habitat loss and fragmentation in the ecoregion, our statewide analysis identified previously undocumented patterns and opportunities for multiple-species...

Categories: Data, Project; Types: Map Service, OGC WFS Layer, OGC WMS Layer, OGC WMS Service; Tags: Burrowing Owl, CA-1, California, California, Climate Change, All tags... Columbia Basin, Columbia Plateau Ecoregion, Connectivity, Data Acquisition and Development, Datasets/Database, Decision Support, EARTH SCIENCE > LAND SURFACE > LANDSCAPE, Federal resource managers, Goal 1: Maintain large, intact landscapes, Goal 2: Conserve landscape connectivity, Greater Sage-Grouse, ID-1, ID-1, ID-1, ID-1, ID-1, ID-2, ID-2, ID-2, ID-2, ID-2, Idaho, Idaho, Idaho, Idaho, Idaho, Idaho, Informing Conservation Delivery, LCC Network Science Catalog, Land Use Change, Map, Mule deer, NV-2, NV-2, NV-2, NV-2, NV-2, Nevada, Nevada, Nevada, Nevada, Nevada, Nevada, OR-2, OR-2, OR-2, OR-2, OR-2, Oregon, Oregon, Oregon, Oregon, Oregon, Oregon, Project, Report, Riparian Areas, Sage Shrub/Grassland, Sage-Grouse, Sage-Steppe, State agencies, UT-1, UT-1, UT-1, UT-1, UT-1, Utah, Utah, Utah, Utah, Utah, Utah, WA-3, WA-3, WA-3, WA-3, WA-3, WA-4, WA-4, WA-4, WA-4, WA-4, WA-5, WA-5, WA-5, WA-5, WA-5, WA-8, WA-8, WA-8, WA-8, WA-8, WY-1, WY-1, WY-1, WY-1, WY-1, Washington, Washington, Washington, Washington, Washington, Washington, Watershed Uplands, Wetlands, Wyoming, Wyoming, Wyoming, Wyoming, Wyoming, Wyoming, completed, environment, Fewer tags

Protocols for assessing impacts of wind energy development on greater sage-grouse

These protocols are intended to identify key questions to be addressed, preferred approaches to addressing these questions, and issues likely to be encountered by scientists studying impacts of wind energy development on sage-grouse. I discuss advantages and disadvantages of possible study designs. A full BACI (Before After Control Impact) design with five years of preconstruction data and at least five years of post-construction data that estimates fundamental demographic parameters and habitat selection over a distance gradient from wind facilities provides the strongest design. Research proposals considered for funding by the GS3C-Sage-Grouse Collaborative will be evaluated based on their abilities to adhere...

Categories: Data, Project; Types: Map Service, OGC WFS Layer, OGC WMS Layer, OGC WMS Service; Tags: Academics & scientific researchers, Federal resource managers, Goal 1: Maintain large, intact landscapes, Greater Sage-Grouse, Idaho, All tags... LCC Network Science Catalog, Land Use Change, Methodology/Protocol, Montana, Population & Habitat Evaluation/Projection, Project, Report, Rocky Mountain, Sage Shrub/Grassland, Sage-Steppe, South Dakota, State agencies, Utah, WY-1, Wyoming, Wyoming, completed, environment, Fewer tags

Landscape risk assessment tool expanded for detecting invasive annual grass threat to FWS sagebrush priority migratory birds ranges in the eastern portion of the sagebrush biome

Understanding the current risk of the threat of invasive annual grasses to the sagebrush ecosystem is needed for biological planning and conservation design of appropriate conservation delivery mechanisms that will enhance and maintain priority wildlife species of conservation concern. Current efforts with partners have developed a 250 m near-real time herbaceous annual percent cover map in western portion of the ecosystem for identifying wildfire risk but this effort needs to be expanded to the eastern portion of the biome. In addition, localized detailed information is needed at 30m scale for increased accuracy of identifying the degree and extent of invasions. This information at the landscape scale will facilitate...

Categories: Data, Project; Types: Map Service, OGC WFS Layer, OGC WMS Layer, OGC WMS Service; Tags: CO, KS, MT, ND, NE, All tags... Project, SA Science Catalog, SD, Sage-Steppe, Sagebrush, Strategic Science - 1420, USFWS Science Applications Science Catalog, UT, WY, environment, onGoing, Fewer tags

A Regional Model for Building Resilience to Climate Change: Development and Demonstration in Colorado

The Gunnison Climate Working Group is a chartered partnership of 14 public and private organizations in Colorados Upper Gunnison Basin. The Southern Rockies LCC (SRLCC) funded The Nature Conservancy to complete a comprehensive vulnerability assessment identifying species and ecosystems most at risk from climate change. The assessment included a set of habitat adaptation strategies for priority species, such as the Gunnison sage-grouse. As a final product, local demonstration projects were designed and installed.The financial support and partnership provided by the SRLCC was critical to the Gunnison Climate Working Groups success and progress towards addressing climate change. As a direct result of the SRLCC involvement,...

Categories: Data, Project; Types: Map Service, OGC WFS Layer, OGC WMS Layer, OGC WMS Service; Tags: Applications and Tools, CO-03, Colorado, Colorado, Gunnison Basin, All tags... Gunnison Basin, Gunnison sage-grouse, Gunnison sage-grouse, Informing Conservation Delivery, LCC, LCC Network Science Catalog, Map, Native Fish, Private land owners, Project, Regional & county planners, Report, SRLCC, Sage-steppe, Southern Rockies LCC, State agencies, Streamflows, Vulnerability Assessment, adaption strategies, adaption strategies, brooding habitat, brooding habitat, climate change, climate change, completed, vulnerability, vulnerability, wet meadows, wet meadows, Fewer tags

Effects of pion-juniper woodland treatments on the Pinyon Jay

The proposed large-scale collaborative research project will provide the first thorough assessment of the effects of pion-juniper woodland treatments on the Pinyon Jay, a species undergoing rapid population declines according to the BBS. The results of this multi-state study will provide land management agencies critical information about impacts of woodland management on the species and significant, novel data about habitat use and specific habitat preferences. These data will allow land managers to better understand the needs of the species and inform how future management practices can be implemented to reduce or mitigate negative impacts. Without these data, land management agencies and the conservation community...

Categories: Data, Project; Types: Map Service, OGC WFS Layer, OGC WMS Layer, OGC WMS Service; Tags: NM, NM, NM, NM, NM, All tags... NM, NM, NM, NM, Project, SA Science Catalog, Sage-Steppe, Sagebrush, USFWS Science Applications Science Catalog, UT, environment, onGoing, Fewer tags

River Conditions Tool (RCT) Geographic Expansion

FY2023R6 SA (Science Applications), in cooperation with project collaborators and watershed stakeholders (watershed coordinators, Montana State University, MTDRC, EPA, conservation districts, TU) created the River Conditions Tool (RCT) to drive conservation actions via real-time stream gage data with predetermined aquatic, riverine, drought management science. Many watersheds Montana, Wyoming, Nebraska, and Colorado are in need of the various conservation science benefits this RCT expansion provides.Continuing this project in new watersheds would be an opportunity to create relationships with new partners and help underserved communities by providing landowners, land/watershed managers, scientists, and recreationalists...

Categories: Data, Project; Types: Map Service, OGC WFS Layer, OGC WMS Layer, OGC WMS Service; Tags: Contractual Document, Grasslands, MT, Project, Rocky Mountain, All tags... SA Science Catalog, Sage-Steppe, Sagebrush, Strategic Science - 1420, USFWS Science Applications Science Catalog, WY, WY, WY, WY, WY, WY, WY, WY, WY, WY, WY, WY, WY, WY, environment, onGoing, Fewer tags

CED: Evaluating correlation between conservation efforts and GRSG population trends

The Conservation Efforts Database (CED) is in the process of collecting information related to conservation efforts implemented in the sagebrush biome. This data will predominantly covers the time from 2009-2018. It is our hope to utilize this information and partner with USGS to investigate if/how these efforts are related to greater sage-grouse population trends being developed as part of a larger Population Monitoring Framework that FWS is involved with. Results of this evaluation would help inform which populations/areas may be receiving a larger conservation benefit from action implemented as well as if changes in trends are related to conservation efforts or other environmental factors. This effort is in support...

Categories: Data, Project; Types: Map Service, OGC WFS Layer, OGC WMS Layer, OGC WMS Service; Tags: CA, CO, ID, MT, ND, All tags... NV, OR, Project, SA Science Catalog, SD, Sage-Steppe, Sagebrush, Strategic Science - 1420, USFWS Science Applications Science Catalog, UT, WA, WY, environment, onGoing, Fewer tags

High Divide Collaborative

FY2023The High Divide is a large, ecologically diverse, rural geography that demands coordinated conservation efforts from landowners, Tribal partners, NGOs, and agencies. The Landscape Conservation Design (LCD) provides a framework to coordinate management decisions and direct on-the-ground action based on partner input. The LCD process culminates in two deliverables: a spatial design and a long-term strategy design. Together, these deliverables will be available to those who live and work in the High Divide region to support conservation advocacy, planning, and funding efforts. Additionally, the spatial design will be publicly accessible for download and can be further refined to support local project prioritization....

Categories: Data, Project; Types: Map Service, OGC WFS Layer, OGC WMS Layer, OGC WMS Service; Tags: FWS SA, HOTR, HOTR, Project, Rocky Mountain, All tags... Rocky Mountain, SA Science Catalog, Sage-Steppe, Sage-Steppe, Sagebrush, Strategic Science - 1420, USFWS Science Applications Science Catalog, environment, onGoing, Fewer tags

Science Support for Land Conservation in the Rocky Mountain Corridor

The Heart of the Rockies Initiative (HOTR), on behalf of its 24 land conservation non-governmental partners, and its federal and state agency partners, seeks a second year of science support to incorporate emerging data on landscape integrity and connectivity, crucial habitats, and climate change response into downscaled data layers that can help the partners identify and validate their immediate and longer term conservation targets.FY2013Objectives:The primary goal of the HOTR science support project is to deliver the latest science in climate adaptation and habitat connectivity conservation to conservation practitioners and their partners in the Central Rocky Mountain region. HOTR conservation partners want assurance...

Categories: Data, Project; Types: Map Service, OGC WFS Layer, OGC WMS Layer, OGC WMS Service; Tags: Alberta, British Columbia, Climate Change, Connectivity, Conservation Plan/Design/Framework, All tags... Conservation Planning, Crown of the Continent, Data Acquisition and Development, Datasets/Database, Federal resource managers, Goal 1: Maintain large, intact landscapes, Goal 2: Conserve landscape connectivity, Greater Sage-Grouse, Greater Yellowstone Ecosystem (GYE), Grizzly Bear, High Divide, ID-1, ID-2, ID-2, ID-2, ID-2, Idaho, Idaho, Informing Conservation Delivery, Invasive Species, LCC Network Science Catalog, Land Use Change, MT-1, MT-1, MT-1, MT-1, Montana, Montana, Montana, Montana, Montana, Natural Fire Regimes, OR-2, OR-2, OR-2, OR-2, Oregon, Oregon, Oregon, Oregon, Oregon, Private land owners, Project, Pronghorn, Regional & county planners, Report, Rivers & Riparian Corridors, Rocky Mountain, Sage Shrub/Grassland, Sage-Steppe, WY-1, WY-1, WY-1, WY-1, Washington, Wolverine, Woodland, Wyoming, Wyoming, Wyoming, Wyoming, Wyoming, completed, environment, Fewer tags

Positioning the Sage Steppe Partner Forum as a pivotal communication tool for Sagebrush Biome conservation implementation (project not executed, funding reprioritized)

The Great Northern Landscape Conservation Cooperative (GNLCC) is sponsoring the Sage Steppe Partner Forum to help facilitate collaboration among conservation practitioners and partnerships that share landscape conservation challenges in an eco-geographic context. Draft Partner Forum guidance suggests that field-level managers, scientists, and conservation constituents will, through a loosely structured process, identify priority conservation information and scientific needs that fall within the scope of the Great Northern LCC Strategic Conservation Framework.The sagebrush-steppe biome covers some 480,000 square miles in 14 western states and provinces expanding the SSPF challenge to areas outside the GNLCC geography....

Categories: Data, Project; Types: Map Service, OGC WFS Layer, OGC WMS Layer, OGC WMS Service; Tags: British Columbia, Burrowing Owl, California, Climate Change, Colorado, All tags... Columbia Basin, Connectivity, Conservation Planning, Data Acquisition and Development, Datasets/Database, Federal resource managers, Goal 1: Maintain large, intact landscapes, Goal 2: Conserve landscape connectivity, Goal 4: Promote landscape-scale disturbances, Greater Sage-Grouse, Idaho, Informing Conservation Delivery, Invasive Species, LCC Network Science Catalog, Land Use Change, Montana, Mule deer, Natural Fire Regimes, Nevada, Oregon, Policy makers & regulators, Project, Pronghorn, Pygmy Rabbit, Riparian Areas, Sage Shrub/Grassland, Sage-Steppe, State agencies, Utah, Washington, Website, Wyoming, completed, environment, Fewer tags

Evaluating the efficacy of CCAAs

Candidate Conservation Agreements (CCAs) with Assurances (CCAAs) are valuable conservation tools developed with landowners in conjunction with the FWS to conserve species at risk with the intent of negating an Endangered Species Act listing action. Monitoring is typically the responsibility of the landowner, with varying levels of monitoring of biological parameters (e.g., vegetation characteristics). We propose a pilot project to assess if these conservation tools are actually meeting their intended purpose, provide essential information for any necessary adaptive management and inform future CCAs and CCAAs. Without this information, we will be unable to determine whether FWS conservation efforts are eliciting...

Categories: Data, Project; Types: Map Service, OGC WFS Layer, OGC WMS Layer, OGC WMS Service; Tags: CO, KS, MT, ND, ND, All tags... ND, ND, ND, ND, NE, Project, SA Science Catalog, SD, SD, SD, SD, SD, SD, Sage-Steppe, Sagebrush, USFWS Science Applications Science Catalog, UT, WY, WY, WY, WY, WY, WY, environment, onGoing, Fewer tags