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This dataset was compiled and published as a service definition for the purpose of display in an interactive web map of the Wyoming Landscape Conservation Initiative (WLCI). The data layers selected for the dataset are a subset of the data layers in USGS Data Series 683, the Energy Map of Southwestern Wyoming, Part A - Coal and Wind (2012). Data Series 683 includes a geodatabase of all the shapefiles used as data sources. These shapefiles and their metadata can be downloaded from http://pubs.usgs.gov/ds/683/contents/Datafiles/. In order to show the most recent information about mine activity in Wyoming, an additional data layer was added to the service definition: Active Coal Mines (data set credit: Chris Carrol,...
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Three sage-grouse GIS shapefiles, created by the Wyoming Game and Fish department, were added to an ArcGIS service definition. The shapefiles show current sage-grouse distribution, version 3 of the sage-grouse core management areas, and energy transmission corridors. The core management areas were finalized in 2010 by the Sage-Grouse Local Working Groups and the Sage-Grouse Implementation Team of the Wyoming Game and Fish Department. The transmission corridors were established in 2010 through an executive order from the State of Wyoming (Order 2010-4, replaced later by Order 2011-5). They were established in order to plan for the construction of energy transmission infrastructure. The 2-mile wide corridors represent...
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