Improving SARP data in the Southeast Conservation Blueprint

This project will supply data to support various components of the Southeast Conservation Adaptation Strategy’s (SECAS) Southeast Conservation Blueprint (Blueprint). SARP routinely compiles data, analyzes, and priorities aquatic barriers and all areas covered by the Blueprint except for West Virginia and the US Virgin Islands. These data and subsequent analyses are utilized by SECAS to derive a network complexity indicator. This project will enable SARP to provide a more complete assessment for West Virginia to make it more comparable to the rest of the Southeast. Additionally, SARP will provide barrier information for the US Virgin Islands so that SECAS can expand the network complexity analysis to the Caribbean region. In addition, SARP will also provide distribution data for aquatic imperiled species for West Virginia, US Virgin Islands, and Puerto Rico so that SECAS can expand the imperiled aquatic species indicator in these three regions. The purpose of the third task is to develop a required data management plan covering the collection, management, and storage of data collected under this and other projects for the US Fish and Wildlife Service.