Solar Energy Environmental Mapper

The Solar Energy Environmental Mapper is an interactive web-based mapping tool providing access to information relevant to siting of utility-scale solar projects in the southwestern United States. Users can view map layers that were used to create the maps and conduct some analyses in the Solar Energy Development PEIS as well as map layers showing land use decisions associated with the Bureau of Land Management’s Solar Energy Program. The tool provides the ability to zoom and pan to areas of interest, and display and query data. The Solar Energy Environmental Mapper provides users with fast, easy access to a wide variety of spatial data through a Web browser, requiring only limited and generally quick data and software...

Types: Map Service, OGC WFS Layer, OGC WMS Layer, OGC WMS Service; Tags: English, GIS, US, ecoregion, endangered, All tags... energy, mammal, management, map, ownership, plan, plant, priority, protected area, rare, recreation, renewable, reptile, reservoir, river, stream, threat, threatened, water, watershed, wildlife, Fewer tags

Arizona’s Natural Infrastructure

This data represents Arizona's natural infrastructure. We integrated 12 local, state, and regional datasets that identify open space lands and sensitive biological lands. This data set is a composite or simplification of the source data sets -- the boundaries of all source records have been combined ("dissolved") into one composite record in order to facilitate analysis. Note: We did not integrate wildlife linkages data from 2 of the studies in this composite layer because we were not able to obtain permission to do so from the source agencies. Please see the following websites if you are interested in obtaining this data: http://www.dot.state.az.us/Highways/OES/AZ_WildLife_Linkages/gis_layers.asp http://corridordesign.org/arizona/download.php...

Types: Map Service, OGC WFS Layer, OGC WMS Layer, OGC WMS Service; Tags: English, GIS, US, connectivity, development, All tags... endangered, grassland, land use, map, ownership, plan, priority, protected area, rare, recreation, road, threat, threatened, vulnerability, water, wildlife, Fewer tags

Comprehensive Wildlife Conservation Strategy For New Mexico

In 2001, through the efforts of the 3000 member groups of the Teaming With Wildlife Coalition (http://www.teaming.com), the US Congress passed legislation now known as the State and Tribal Wildlife Grants Program (SWG) and created the nation’s core initiative for conserving our country’s biodiversity and thereby precluding the necessity of listing more species as threatened and endangered. Planning and actions to recover species that have become endangered are controversial and expensive. Annual spending on listed species in the United States has increased more than six fold over the past 10 years, to a level of over $600 million a year. The SWG program promotes proactive and collaborative conservation action before...

Categories: Publication; Types: Citation, Map Service, OGC WFS Layer, OGC WMS Layer, OGC WMS Service; Tags: ecoregion, grassland, map, plan, priority, All tags... rare, riparian, shrubland, water, wetland, wildlife, Fewer tags

U.S. Fish & Wildlife Service Web Mapping Gateway, Pacific Southwest Region

This portal is a web mapping platform managed and curated by members of various programs and cooperator groups within the Pacific Southwest Region, U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service. It is designed to showcase spatial information for particular geographies, topics, projects and administrative offices. Various searchable topics and data layers presented on this site include subsets of the data available across the Data Basin system. Members and visitors can use this portal to use or share existing maps or create their own custom maps.

Types: Map Service, OGC WFS Layer, OGC WMS Layer, OGC WMS Service; Tags: California, GIS, Nevada, agriculture, bird, All tags... climate, connectivity, contamination, ecoregion, endangered, invasive, land cover, mammal, map, model, plant, protected area, rare, reptile, road, soil, threatened, topography, vegetation, water, watershed, wildlife, Fewer tags

A Linkage Network for the California Deserts

The rapidly increasing demands being placed on our deserts points to the urgent need for a connectivity assessment that spans multiple jurisdictional boundaries and promotes the partnerships needed to implement a regional conservation strategy for this diverse and striking landscape. The vast scale of renewable energy developments proposed in the California deserts are likely to impact habitat connectivity, alter essential ecosystem functions, and eliminate opportunities for species to shift their ranges in response to climate change. The potential impacts of energy development on our existing public lands, specifically to wildlife and their ability to move across the landscape, are enormous. The primary goal of...

Categories: Publication; Types: Citation, Map Service, OGC WFS Layer, OGC WMS Layer, OGC WMS Service; Tags: BMP, California, GIS, OHV, assessment, All tags... biodiversity, climate, connectivity, development, endangered, energy, erosion, fire, grassland, grazing, groundwater, invasive, land cover, management, map, mining, model, ownership, plan, priority, protected area, rare, renewable, restoration, riparian, river, road, scrub, shrub, soil, spring, stream, threatened, vegetation, water, watershed, wetland, wildlife, Fewer tags

Sonoran Joint Venture Bird Conservation Plan

The Sonoran Joint Venture Bird Conservation Plan (Plan) provides the biological foundation for the activities of the Sonoran Joint Venture (SJV). The Plan summarizes the status of avian species, prioritizes these species, provides habitat discussions and conservation recommendations, and lists Focus Areas for conservation action. This Plan will be a blueprint for regional bird conservation. It will guide the SJV staff, Board, and committees in their actions and inform SJV partners of beneficial activities. Finally and most importantly, this Plan demonstrates and emphasizes the need for conservation action and for the resources to achieve the SJV’s biological objectives. There are approximately 740 species documented...

Types: Map Service, OGC WFS Layer, OGC WMS Layer, OGC WMS Service; Tags: Madrean, Mexico, Mojave Desert, US, grassland, All tags... management, priority, rare, restoration, shrub, threat, vegetation, Fewer tags

Arizona’s State Wildlife Action Plan: 2012 - 2022

Arizona's Comprehensive Wildlife Conservation Strategy, or CWCS, was accepted by the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service's National Acceptance Advisory Team in 2006. It was the culmination of a 2-year effort during which the Arizona Game and Fish Department solicited input from numerous experts, resource professionals, federal and state agencies, sportsmen groups, conservation organizations, Native American tribes, recreational groups, local governments, and private citizens and integrated those ideas and concerns into a single, comprehensive vision for managing Arizona’s fish, wildlife, and wildlife habitats over the next ten years. In the intervening five years, Arizona and its’ wildlife have seen many changes. To...

Categories: Publication; Types: Citation, Map Service, OGC WFS Layer, OGC WMS Layer, OGC WMS Service; Tags: grassland, management, map, model, monitoring, All tags... priority, rare, riparian, shrub, threat, water, Fewer tags

Listed and Imperiled Species by County and Watershed

Overview These maps and datasets provide both: 1) a national-level overview of the distribution and density of federally listed or imperiled plant and animal species by county and watershed; and, 2) access to which species are at-risk in each county and watershed. Value Based on the best available information on the known location of at-risk species populations, these nationally significant datasets can be used as context for setting regional or national conservation priorities as well as a starting point for learning more about conservation priorities in your own backyard. Features & Benefits These summarized county/watershed distribution datasets are based on our national species dataset of location records (element...

Types: Map Service, OGC WFS Layer, OGC WMS Layer, OGC WMS Service; Tags: GIS, endangered, fish, invertebrate, map, All tags... plant, rare, threatened, wildlife, Fewer tags

Areas of Conservation Emphasis (ACE II)

Areas of Conservation Emphasis (ACE-II) is a Department of Fish and Wildlife project that was begun in 2009 to provide data to help guide and inform conservation priorities in California.

Types: Map Service, OGC WFS Layer, OGC WMS Layer, OGC WMS Service; Tags: English, GIS, US, biodiversity, connectivity, All tags... development, ecoregion, endangered, groundwater, land cover, map, model, ownership, plant, protected area, rare, riparian, stream, threat, threatened, water, watershed, wetland, wildlife, Fewer tags

Nevada Springs Conservation Plan

Categories: Publication; Types: Citation, Map Service, OGC WFS Layer, OGC WMS Layer, OGC WMS Service; Tags: amphibian, fish, invasive, inventory, invertebrate, All tags... plant, priority, rare, spring, wetland, Fewer tags

Mojave Basin and Range Rapid Ecoregional Assessment (REA)

REAs synthesize the best available information about resource conditions and trends within an ecoregion. They highlight and map areas of high ecological value, including important wildlife habitats and corridors, and gauge their potential risks from climate change, wildfires, invasive species, energy development, and urban growth. REAs also map areas that have high energy development potential, and relatively low ecological value, which could be best-suited for siting future energy development. In addition, REAs establish landscape-scale baseline ecological data to gauge the effect and effectiveness of future management actions. The Mojave Basin and Range REA was initiated in July 2010. It has been completed and...

Types: Map Service, OGC WFS Layer, OGC WMS Layer, OGC WMS Service; Tags: English, GIS, OHV, US, agriculture, All tags... amphibian, assessment, biodiversity, bird, burro, climate, connectivity, contamination, cultural, development, ecoregion, endangered, energy, erosion, fire, fish, grassland, grazing, horse, invasive, land cover, mammal, map, mining, model, oil, ownership, plant, priority, protected area, rare, recreation, renewable, reptile, reservoir, riparian, road, scrub, shrub, soil, spring, threat, threatened, topography, vegetation, water, watershed, wetland, wildlife, Fewer tags

The Nature Conservancy's Priority Conservation Areas

The Nature Conservancy has been a leader in spatial conservation planning for many years. The primary planning tool used by the Conservancy for landscape-scale conservation planning over the past decade has been Ecoregional Assessments. Our United States Ecoregional Assessments identify priority areas for conservation within the United States. This includes data from 67 Ecoregional Assessments, which identified over 9,000 conservation priority areas. Importantly, this dataset contains the conservation targets that we hope to conserve within these priority areas. Conservation targets include both species and habitat types (e.g. plant communities; ecosystems). Our dataset includes 8,507 unique species and 6,633 habitat...

Types: Map Service, OGC WFS Layer, OGC WMS Layer, OGC WMS Service; Tags: Chihuahuan Desert, English, GIS, Madrean, Mojave Desert, All tags... Sonoran Desert, US, amphibian, assessment, biodiversity, bird, ecoregion, endangered, fish, grassland, invertebrate, mammal, map, plant, priority, rare, reptile, scrub, shrub, threatened, vegetation, wildlife, Fewer tags

Environmental Conservation Online System

The Environmental Conservation Online System (ECOS) is a gateway web site that provides access to data systems in the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service (Service) and other government data sources. This central point of access assists Service personnel in managing data and information, and it provides public access to information from numerous Service databases. ECOS serves a variety of reports related to FWS Threatened and Endangered Species. A selection of our most popular reports is listed below. See the Species Reports for the complete list. Listed Species Summary All Threatened and Endangered Animals All Threatened and Endangered Plants Reclassified Species Delisted Species Obtaining an Official Species List:...

Types: Map Service, OGC WFS Layer, OGC WMS Layer, OGC WMS Service; Tags: GIS, ecoregion, endangered, map, ownership, All tags... protected area, rare, threatened, water, watershed, wetland, Fewer tags