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

Raven Observations near Greater Sage-Grouse Nests in the Great Basin and Bi-State Regions of the Western United States (2009 - 2019)

These tables serve as input data for hierarchical models investigating interactions between raven density and Greater Sage-grouse nest success. Observations were recorded over an 11 year time period, spanning from 2009 through 2019. The model is run in JAGS via R, the code is publicly available via the U.S. Geological Survey's GitLab (O'Neil et al. 2023). We recommend not making any changes or edits to the tables unless the user is experienced with hierarchical modeling. References: O'Neil, S.T., Coates, P.S., Webster, S.C., Brussee, B.E., Dettenmaier, S.J., Tull, J.C., Jackson, P.J., Casazza, M.L., and Espinosa, S.P., 2023, Code for a hierarchical model of raven densities linked with sage-grouse nest survival...

Categories: Data; Tags: Anthropogenic subsidies, California, Great Basin, Idaho, Nevada, All tags... bi-state, biota, conservation planning, decision support, density surface model, distance sampling, ecology, human impacts, native species, nest survival, population decline, predation, predator-prey, sagebrush, species distribution, species of concern, wildlife, Fewer tags

Provisional Tennessee State Wildlife Action Plan Potential Urban Growth

Provisional Tennessee State Wildlife Action Plan (TN-SWAP) terrestrial habitat priorities versus results of the population growth model developed by the Tennessee Chapter of The Nature Conservancy, 2008, converted to percent projected developed landcover in the year 2040. Spatial growth model was developed using population growth projections from the University of Tennessee Center for Business and Economic Research (UT-CBER), county urban growth boundaries, 2000 census blocks, and various ancillary datasets.

Categories: Data; Tags: Academics & scientific researchers, AppLCC, Appalachian, Conservation NGOs, Data, All tags... Data.gov Appalachian Landscape Conservation Cooperative, Datasets/Database, Federal resource managers, Hunters & anglers, Interested public, Policy makers & regulators, Private land owners, Regional & county planners, State agencies, Tennessee, The Nature Conservancy, Tribes, biodiversity, biota, completed, conservation, decision support, endangered, habitat, modeling, planning, planningCadastre, prioritization, society, species, terrestrial, threatened, wildlife, Fewer tags

Urban Monarch Chicago Tools

Monarch butterfly and other pollinators are in trouble. Monarch butterfly habitat— including milkweed host plants and nectar food sources—has declined drastically throughout most of the United States. Observed overwinter population levels have also exhibited a long-term downward trend, suggesting a strong relationship between habitat loss and monarch population declines. Preliminary research results from a U.S. Geological Survey led effort indicate that we need a comprehensive conservation strategy that includes all land types in order to stabilize monarch populations at levels necessary to adequately minimize extinction risk—urban areas will likely play a critical role. A Landscape Conservation Design (LCD) tool...

Categories: Data; Types: Map Service, OGC WFS Layer, OGC WMS Layer, OGC WMS Service; Tags: Applications and Tools, Conservation design, Conservation planning, Data.gov, Decision support, All tags... EARTH SCIENCE > LAND SURFACE > LANDSCAPE, LCC Network Science Catalog, Regional & county planners, completed, data.gov Eastern Tallgrass Prairie and Big Rivers LCC, environment, environment, model, product, Fewer tags

Models of ecological uplift from conservation activities in the SALCC

We propose to support the revision and implementation of the South Atlantic Landscape Conservation Cooperative’s Conservation Blueprint by integrating its Ecosystem Indicators into a structured decision support system that makes explicit how the Indicators are interrelated and how these will respond to management and policy interventions aimed at improving the conservation status of the South Atlantic region. Our specific objectives are to (1) develop ecological production functions that predict theecological impacts of selected conservation actions relative to current conditions, and to propagate these impacts through other affected systems or functions; (2) codify protocols for updating and curating geospatial...

Categories: Data, Project; Types: Map Service, OGC WFS Layer, OGC WMS Layer, OGC WMS Service; Tags: 2015, ANTHROPOGENIC/HUMAN INFLUENCED ECOSYSTEMS, AQUATIC ECOSYSTEMS, Academics & scientific researchers, Applications and Tools, All tags... Conservation NGOs, Decision Support, FRESHWATER ECOSYSTEMS, Federal resource managers, LCC, LCC Network Science Catalog, MARINE ECOSYSTEMS, MODELS, Policy makers & regulators, Project, Regional & county planners, South Atlantic Landscape Conservation Cooperative, State agencies, TERRESTRIAL ECOSYSTEMS, Tribes, biota, biota, inlandWaters, inlandWaters, oceans, oceans, onGoing, Fewer tags

San Francisco Bay Area Upland Habitat Goals

This project completed a Conservation Lands Network for biodiversity preservation which includes an on-line decision support tool, a GIS database, a computer software for finer scale planning, and a report card template. Project results may be found at The Conservation Lands Network website.

Categories: Data, Project; Tags: 2010, Applications and Tools, CA, California Landscape Conservation Cooperative, Conservation NGOs, All tags... Conservation Plan/Design/Framework, Conservation Planning, Conservation planning, Consevation design, Data Management and Integration, Data Management and Integration, Decision Support, Estuarine, Federal, LCC, LCC Network Science Catalog, Map, Private land owners, Project, SF Bay/Delta, San Francisco Bay Area, Science Project, State agencies, Terrestrial, Upland, acquisition, biodiversity, completed, connectivity, conservation, environment, gis database, on-line tool, plants, Fewer tags

Science Brief for Resource Managers: Metacommunity Dynamics of Gila River Fishes

Description: The upper Gila River in New Mexico is one of the few unobstructed rivers in the Colorado River Basin with largely intact native fish populations, including four federally listed and one state listed species.Freshwater systems throughout the West continue to be threatened by human encroachment and water development. Methodologies or decision support tools to evaluate resource management practices that foster an understanding of how fish species adapt to the effects of climate change are critical to future resource management planning.

Categories: Data, Publication; Types: Citation, Map Service, OGC WFS Layer, OGC WMS Layer, OGC WMS Service; Tags: 2011, AZ-01, AZ-02, Academics & scientific researchers, Applications and Tools, All tags... Arizona, Colorado River Basin, Conservation NGOs, Data Acquisition and Development, Data.gov Desert LCC, Datasets/Database, Decision Support, EARTH SCIENCE > BIOLOGICAL CLASSIFICATION > ANIMALS/VERTEBRATES > FISH, Federal resource managers, LCC Network Science Catalog, NM-02, New Mexico, New Mexico, Population & Habitat Evaluation/Projection, Publication, Report, Transboundary Madrean Watersheds Pilot Area, United States, Upper Gila River Basin, biodiversity, biota, climate change, completed, fish, product, risk, river, water, water management, Fewer tags

Tidal Marsh Bird Population and Habitat Assessment

This project assessed the potential effects of climate change on tidal marsh habitats and bird populations, identified priority sites for tidal marsh conservation and restoration, and developed a web-based mapping tool for managers to interactively display and query results. Project results can be found at PRBO’s San Francisco Bay Sea-Level Rise Website

Categories: Data, Project; Tags: 2010, 2013, Applications and Tools, CA, California Landscape Conservation Cooperative, All tags... Conservation NGOs, Decision Support, Decision support, Estuarine, Federal, Federal resource managers, Informing Conservation Delivery, Informing Conservation Delivery, LCC, LCC Network Science Catalog, Map, Marine, Population & Habitat Evaluation/Projection, Population and Habitat Evaluation/Projection, Private land owners, Project, SF Bay/Delta, San Francisco Bay, Science Project, Tidal, Training/Outreach/Workshop, adaptation, birds, completed, conservation, decision support tool, environment, gis, levee, management, mapping, on-line, restoration, salinity, scenario planning, scenarios, sea level rise, sediment, shorebirds, slr, south bay salt ponds, tidal marsh, wetlands, Fewer tags

Identifying conservation corridors and transboundary linkages for wolverines in the Canadian Crown of the Continent ecosystem

The Canadian portion of the Crown of the Continent (CCoC) ecosystem has been identified as crucial for wolverines north of the US border to rescue or supply individuals and genes through dispersal to the highly fragmented population in the northern US Rocky Mountains. Highway 3, motorized recreation, and a growing resource extraction industry, however, increasingly fragment this critical landscape. This project will capitalize on multi-year wolverine occupancy and genetic data collected noninvasively in a >40,000 km2 area encompassing the core protected areas of the central Canadian Rocky Mountains to the north; and Glacier-Waterton Lakes National Park complex in the south. Our goal is to obtain spatially-explicit...

Categories: Data, Project; Types: Map Service, OGC WFS Layer, OGC WMS Layer, OGC WMS Service; Tags: Alberta, Alpine, Applications and Tools, British Columbia, Climate Change, All tags... Connectivity, Crown of the Continent (CCoC) Ecosystem, Data Acquisition and Development, Decision Support, Federal resource managers, Goal 2: Conserve landscape connectivity, ID-1, Idaho, Idaho, LCC Network Science Catalog, Land Use Change, MT-1, MT-1, MT-1, MT-1, Map, Monitoring, Montana, Montana, Montana, Montana, Montana, Project, Rocky Mountain, State agencies, Tribes, WA-5, WA-5, WA-5, WA-5, Washington, Washington, Washington, Washington, Washington, Wolverine, completed, environment, wolverines, Fewer tags

NPLCC Guide to Planning Tools

This project will create a targeted and easily understandable guide to tools that support landscape-level planning in the face of climate change for NPLCC partners. The guide will build on previous NPLCC research on decision support needs with an emphasis on tools currently in use in the region. A survey of NPLCC partners will discover who is currently using or planning to use tools in the region, tools they are using, how well these tools are meeting their needs, and regional and outside experts engaged in tool use. Additional tools research will provide information on tools not currently in use in the region that could also provide needed functionality.

Categories: Data; Types: Map Service, OGC WFS Layer, OGC WMS Layer, OGC WMS Service; Tags: Academics & scientific researchers, Ak-1, Alaska, British Columbia, CA-2, All tags... California, Climate change, Conservation Design, Conservation NGOs, Conservation Planning, Conservation planning, Decision Support, Decision Support Tools and Data, Decision support, Federal resource managers, LCC Network Science Catalog, Landscape, Multiple priority topics, NPLCC, OR-1, OR-3, OR-4, OR-5, Oregon, WA-1, WA-10, WA-2, WA-3, WA-6, WA-7, WA-9, Washington, adaptation planning, climate change, completed, landscape planning, planning tools, product, Fewer tags

Pacific Northwest Forest Soils: Creating a Soil Vulnerability Index to Identify Drought Sensitive Areas

This project developed a soil vulnerability index and map indicating where forest cover will be most affected by climate change. Using this map, researchers developed a greater understanding of potential changes in soil moisture and temperature regimes under future climate conditions. They then evaluated how this information could be used to improve vegetation models across the landscape. They compared the results of different modeling approaches to the soil vulnerability map, synthesized the state of knowledge and uncertainty, and introduced management implications for action.

Categories: Data, Project; Types: Map Service, OGC WFS Layer, OGC WMS Layer, OGC WMS Service; Tags: 2011, AK, AK, AK, AK, All tags... AK-0, AK-1, AK-1, AK-1, Academics & scientific researchers, B.C., B.C., B.C., B.C., CA, CA, CA, CA, CA-2, Ca-2, Conservation Planning, Conservation Planning, Datasets/Database, Decision Support, Decision Support, Decision Support, Federal resource managers, LCC, LCC Network Science Catalog, LCC Network Science Catalog - LCCScienceCatalog, NPLCC, NPLCC, North Pacific Landscape Conservation Cooperative, OR-1, OR-1, OR-1, OR-1, OR-3, OR-3, OR-3, OR-3, OR-4, OR-4, OR-4, OR-4, OR-5, OR-5, OR-5, OR-5, Priority B. Changes in air temperature and precipitation on forests, Project, Publication, Regional & county planners, Report, Science Project, Vulnerability Assessment, Vulnerability Assessment, WA, WA-1, WA-1, WA-1, WA-1, WA-10, WA-10, WA-10, WA-10, WA-2, WA-2, WA-2, WA-2, WA-3, WA-3, WA-3, WA-3, WA-6, WA-6, WA-6, WA-6, WA-7, WA-7, WA-7, WA-7, WA-9, WA-9, WA-9, WA-9, WA. OR, WA. OR, WA. OR, climate change, climate change, climate change, climate change, completed, product, soils, soils, vegetation model, vegetation model, vegetation model, vegetation model, Fewer tags

Applying Vulnerability Assessment Tools to Plan for Climate Adaptation: Case Studies in the North Pacific LCC - Final Report

The central objective of this project was to answer two questions: 1) how downscaled climate datasets, modeled vegetation changes, and information on estimated species sensitivities can be used to develop climate change adaptation strategies, and 2) how model results and datasets can be made more useful for informing the management of species and landscapes. To answer these questions, we identified enthusiastic partners working in two very different complex landscapes within the North Pacific Landscape Conservation Cooperative (NPLCC): 1) the British Columbia Park system, specifically the midcoast region, and 2) the National Wildlife Refuge system in the Willamette Valley, OR. The issues and concerns of each group...

Categories: Data; Tags: Academics & scientific researchers, B.C., BC Provincial parks, British Columbia, Conservation Planning, All tags... Decision Support, Federal resource managers, LCC Network Science Catalog, Multiple priority topics, NPLCC, OR, OR-4, Oregon, Priority B. Changes in air temperature and precipitation on forests, State agencies, Vulnerability Assessment, Willamette Basin, Willamette Valley, adaptation strategies, climate adaptation, climate change, climate change, completed, downscaled climate projections, landscape assessment, product, species sensitivities, vegetation changes, vegetation modeling, vulnerability assessment, Fewer tags

Gathering Our Thoughts: Tribal recommendations on a traditional knowledge management framework for the NPLCC - Tulalip Tribes of WA

This project initiated the first large-scale Tribal government discussions on the relationship of scientific research and traditional knowledge in the activities of the NPLCC. The project: 1. Reviewed existing approaches and protocols related to scientific research and traditional knowledge in the Pacific Northwest, characterized different types of traditional knowledge and the contexts in which these are encountered; 2. Initiated discussions among the 21 member Tribes of the Northwest Indian Fisheries Commission (all other Tribes are welcome to join); 3. Reported on their views; 4. Proposed a framework for the use of TK based on discussions and presented it for a possible consensus by all participants; and 5. Conducted...

Categories: Data, Project; Types: Map Service, OGC WFS Layer, OGC WMS Layer, OGC WMS Service; Tags: 2012, Academics & scientific researchers, Decision Support, Federal resource managers, Informing Conservation Delivery, All tags... LCC, LCC Network Science Catalog, LCC Network Science Catalog - LCCScienceCatalog, Methodology/Protocol, NPLCC, NPLCC, North Pacific Landscape Conservation Cooperative, Project, Report, Science Project, TEK, TEK, Traditional Ecological Knowledge, Traditional Ecological Knowledge, Traditional Ecological knowledge, Tribes, WA-1, WA-1, WA-10, WA-10, WA-10, WA-10, WA-2, WA-2, WA-2, WA-2, WA-3, WA-3, WA-3, WA-3, WA-6, WA-6, WA-6, WA-6, WA-7, WA-7, WA-7, WA-7, WA-9, WA-9, WA-9, WA-9, Washington, Washington, Washington, Washington, adaptation strategies, adaptation strategies, adaptation strategies, adaptation strategies, climate change, climate change, climate change, climate change, completed, species sensitivities, species sensitivities, species sensitivities, species sensitivities, traditional ecological knowledge, vegetation changes, vegetation changes, vegetation changes, vegetation changes, Fewer tags

Data Needs Assessment

The Data Needs Assessment research project was undertaken to review the variety of resources on conservation planning to provide packages of products, data, and identified data gaps to improve conservation planning in the Appalachian LCC. A suite of core conservation planning products and data from principal investigators at Clemson University are now available to the Cooperative.“Deliverables from this research include:An analysis of State Wildlife Action Plans in the Appalachian LCC that describe how information contained in these plans can be linked to integrate state and local-scale efforts into a regional conservation framework;A list of 21 conservation planning tools, describing function and relevance of each...

Categories: Data, Project; Tags: Conservation Plan/Design/Framework, Conservation planning, Data Acquisition and Development, Data Management and Integration, Datasets/Database, All tags... Decision support, LCC Network Science Catalog, Project, biota, completed, imageryBaseMapsEarthCover, 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

Data: Current and future CNRM CM3 climate data for NHD v2 catchments within the Mississippi River Basin

This dataset represents results from this study attributed to the NHDPlus V2 catchments. Changes in climate occurring throughout the Mississippi River Basin are expected to lead to additional impacts in stream habitats and fish assemblages in multiple ways, including changing changing thermal properties and flow regimes. To manage streams for current impacts and future changes, managers need region-wide information for decision-making and developing proactive management strategies. Our project provides a suite of climate metrics that have been found to be relevant to the distribution and population structure of aquatic organisms in freshwater stream networks. These results provide natural resource managers, decision-makers,...

Categories: Data; Types: Map Service, OGC WFS Layer, OGC WMS Layer, OGC WMS Service; Tags: Academics & scientific researchers, Alabama, Arkansas, Colorado, Complete, All tags... Conservation NGOs, Conservation planning, Datasets/Database, Decision support, Federal resource managers, Georgia, Illinois, Indiana, Iowa, Kansas, Kentucky, LCC Network Science Catalog, Louisiana, Maryland, Minnesota, Mississippi, Missouri, Montana, Nebraska, New Mexico, New York, North Carolina, North Dakota, Ohio, Oklahoma, Pennsylvania, South Carolina, South Dakota, State agencies, Tennessee, Texas, Virginia, West Virginia, Wisconsin, Wyoming, air temperature, aquatic ecosystems, climate change, climate change, climatologyMeteorologyAtmosphere, climatologyMeteorologyAtmosphere, data.gov Eastern Tallgrass Prairie and Big Rivers LCC, drainage basins, environment, inlandWaters, nonGeographicDataset, precipitation measurements, rivers, streams, Fewer tags

Walker River Paiute Tribe TEK Project

FY2014The goals for the project are1) Develop a Walker River Vision document which will include Traditional Ecological Knowledge (TEK) of the traditional plants, wildlife, fish and water located on the reservation and traditional hunting/ gathering areas of the Agai Dicutta Numa (Walker River Paiutes) for use in future resource management planning and cultural sustainability..2) Develop a pilot project along the Walker River on the reservation by planting willows and other traditional plants to determine best practices for re-vegetation.This project will focus on GBLCC Goal 2: Focus science and management actions to sustain natural resources in the context of changing environmental conditions.The proposed project...

Categories: Data, Project; Types: Map Service, OGC WFS Layer, OGC WMS Layer, OGC WMS Service; Tags: Data Management and Integration, Decision Support, Great Basin, Great Basin, Great Basin, All tags... Great Basin, LCC Network Science Catalog, Project, Report, TEK, TEK, TEK, Traditional Ecological Knowledge, Tribes, Walker River, Walker River, Walker River, Walker River, Walker River Paiute tribe, Walker River Paiute tribe, Walker River Paiute tribe, completed, culture, culture, culture, restoration, restoration, restoration, Fewer tags

Final Report: Vulnerability of Riparian Obligate Species in the Rio Grande to the Interactive Effects of Fire, Hydrological Variation and Climate Change

This project had two primary goals: 1) To develop a process for integrating data from multiple sources to improve predictions of climate impacts for wildlife species; and 2) To provide data on climate and related hydrological change, fire behavior under future climates, and species’ distributions for use by researchers and resource managers.We present within this report the process used to integrate species niche models, fire simulations, and vulnerability assessment methods and provide species’ reports that summarize the results of this work. Species niche model analysis provides information on species’ distributions under three climate scenarios and time periods. Niche model analysis allows us to estimate the...

Categories: Data; Types: Downloadable, Map Service, OGC WFS Layer, OGC WMS Layer, OGC WMS Service, Shapefile; Tags: 2012, Applications and Tools, Data.gov Desert LCC, Decision Support, EARTH SCIENCE > HUMAN DIMENSIONS > ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACTS > CONSERVATION, All tags... Federal resource managers, Fire, Fire, Invasive species, Invasive species, LCC, LCC Network Science Catalog, Map, Methodology/Protocol, NM-01, NM-02, NM-03, New Mexico, New Mexico, Population & Habitat Evaluation/Projection, Report, Rio Grande, Rio Grande, Riparian, Riparian, Riparian obligates, Riparian obligates, Transboundary Madrean Watersheds Pilot Area, United States, Vulnerability, Vulnerability, Vulnerability Assessment, Wetlands, Wetlands, biota, completed, Fewer tags

Assessing annual grass management effectiveness in the sagebrush biome

Invasive annual grasses are a primary, severe, and challenging threat to habitat conservation and restoration for sage-dependent wildlife across federal, state and private lands. Successful management solutions for sagebrush rangelands are likely to be multiphasic, involving some sequence of interventions such as herbicides, seeding of competitive natives that also create habitat, and temporarily altering land use, in an adaptive-management approach. The proposed work tests different herbicides and options for applying them with different seeding and land uses, across a gradient of climate and soils in Interior Regions 5 and 7.This research will examine the efficacy of management options for controlling cheatgrass...

Categories: Data, Project; Tags: CO, Decision Support, Federal resource managers, Project, SA Science Catalog, All tags... Sagebrush, Strategic Science - 1420, USFWS Science Applications Science Catalog, UT, UT, UT, annual grass, completed, environment, sagebrush biome, sagebrush biome, sagebrush biome, Fewer tags

Conserving Important Habitat for Amphibians and Other Wildlife: Compilation of Vernal Pool Mapping Efforts Across the North Atlantic Region

Vernal or seasonal pools are small, temporary bodies of water that can serve as critical habitat for frogs, salamanders, reptiles, invertebrates, and other species. The first step in developing effective conservation strategies for vernal pools and associated wildlife species is to know where on the landscape these small wetlands exist. Although several several states and organizations in the Northeast region have initiated coordinated vernal pool mapping projects, this information has never been assembled in one place. Currently, the Vernal Pool Data Cooperative (VPDC) consists of over 60,000 vernal pool locations submitted by cooperators representing ten states and two Canadian provinces from Virginia to Quebec’s...

Categories: Data, Project; Tags: 2013, Academics & scientific researchers, Amphibian biologists, Applications and Tools, Applications and Tools, All tags... Conservation NGOs, Conservation Planning, Conservation planning, Data Management and Integration, Datasets/Database, Decision support, Federal resource managers, Federal resource managers, GIS users, LCC, LCC Network Science Catalog, Map, Methodology/Protocol, NALCC, North Atlantic Landscape Conservation Cooperative, Population and Habitat Evaluation/Projection, Presentation, Project, Report, State agencies, Training/Outreach/Workshop, USFWS SA R5 Project, environment, environment, onGoing, Fewer tags