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Despite its successes, the U.S. Endangered Species Act (ESA) has proven challenging to implement due to funding limitations, workload backlog, and other problems. As threats to species survival intensify and as more species come under threat, the need for the ESA and similar conservation laws and policies in other countries to function efficiently has grown. Attempts by the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service (USFWS) to streamline ESA decisions include multispecies recovery plans and habitat conservation plans. We address species status assessment (SSA), a USFWS process to inform ESA decisions from listing to recovery, within the context of multispecies and ecosystem planning. Although existing SSAs have a single-species...
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The Southeast Conservation Blueprint is a map of important areas for conservation and restoration across the Southeast and Caribbean. The Blueprint is the primary product of the Southeast Conservation Adaptation Strategy (SECAS). Through SECAS, diverse partners are working together to design and achieve a connected network of lands and waters that supports thriving fish and wildlife populations and improved quality of life for people.
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This indicator counts the number of aquatic species within each 12-digit HUC subwatershed in West Virginia that are listed as G1 (globally critically imperiled), G2 (globally imperiled), or threatened/endangered under the U.S. Endangered Species Act. It originates from the Environmental Protection Agency’s EnviroAtlas data.Reason for SelectionThis indicator identifies areas with abundant rare and endemic aquatic species that would benefit from conservation action. It captures patterns of rare and endemic species diversity not well-represented by other freshwater indicators. It complements the other imperiled aquatic species indicator, which uses aquatic Species of Greatest Conservation Need, but does not yet cover...
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This indicator measures the number of aquatic animal Species of Greatest Conservation Need (SGCN) observed within each 12-digit HUC subwatershed, including fish, mussels, snails, crayfish, and amphibians. SGCN are identified in State Wildlife Action Plans as most in need of conservation action. This indicator originates from state Natural Heritage Program data collected by the Southeast Aquatic Resources Partnership and applies to the Environmental Protection Agency’s estimated floodplain, which spatially defines areas estimated to be inundated by a 100-year flood, also known as the 1% annual chance flood.Reason for SelectionThis indicator identifies areas with abundant rare and endemic aquatic species that would...
Abstract (from U.S. Geological Survey): The unglaciated southeastern United States is a biodiversity hotspot, with a disproportionate amount of this biodiversity concentrated in grasslands. Like most hotspots, the Southeast is also threatened by human activities, with the total reduction of southeastern grasslands estimated as 90 percent (upwards to 100 percent for some types) and with many threats escalating today. This report summarizes the results of a multistakeholder workshop organized by the Southeastern Grasslands Initiative and the U.S. Geological Survey, held in January 2020 to provide a scientific needs assessment to help inform the Species Status Assessment (SSA) process under the U.S. Endangered Species...
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This layer represents the spatial extent of Base Blueprint 2022. It reflects the exterior boundary of the Base Blueprint 2022 subregions.Code used to create this layer is available in the Southeast Blueprint 2022 Data Download under BlueprintInputs > BaseBlueprint2022 > 6_Code. The final step of the code used to create the subregions exports the extent layer.
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This indicator depicts the number of different stream size classes in a river network not separated by dams or waterfalls. It originates from the Southeast Aquatic Resources Partnership and applies to the Environmental Protection Agency’s estimated floodplain, which spatially defines areas estimated to be inundated by a 100-year flood, also known as the 1% annual chance flood.Reason for SelectionRiver networks with a variety of connected stream size classes are more likely to have a wide range of available habitat to support a greater number of species. This will help retain aquatic biodiversity in a changing climate by allowing species to access climate refugia and move between habitats.Input Data Base Blueprint...
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This indicator represents grasslands in the interior southeastern United States, which support important plants, birds, and pollinators. It includes grasslands with and without trees that are historically maintained by geology (e.g., outcrops, glades, and barrens), fire (e.g., Piedmont prairies), and/or the regular violent flooding on the banks of high-energy rivers known as “riverscour” (e.g, riverscour prairies). Known grasslands receive the highest scores, followed by bumble bee habitat buffers around known sites, areas in potentially compatible management, and restoration opportunities within grassland geology. This indicator combines data from multiple sources, including the Southeastern Grasslands Initiative,...
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The Southeast Blueprint User Guide is a resource to help conservation professionals use the Blueprint to bring in new resources and inform decision-making. It compiles different examples of real Blueprint uses to provide new ideas about how to connect to this larger strategy. It showcases the approaches, wording, and maps that Blueprint staff have found to work best in different situations. It showcases a range of case studies, grouped into a few themes that summarize the primary ways people have used the Blueprint.
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This .zip folder contains the primary spatial data, documentation, and code associated with Southeast Conservation Blueprint 2022.
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This layer depicts the subregions used to run Zonation in Base Blueprint 2022. We break down the Base Blueprint geography into subregions to reduce processing time and help with balancing weights across indicators in such a large and varied region.Input Data EPA Level IV Ecoregions shapefile with state boundaries (EPA L4), accessed 12-8-2021 HUC4 Watershed Boundary Dataset, accessed 12-8-2021 Marine Ecoregions Level III from the Commission for Environmental Cooperation North American Environmental Atlas, accessed 12-8-2021 2021 Census TIGER/Lines State boundary, accessed 12-8-2021 South Atlantic Blueprint 2021 Extent (used to limit the marine area)Mapping StepsFor more details on the mapping steps, code used to...
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The Southeast Conservation Blueprint is a map of important areas for conservation and restoration across the Southeast and Caribbean. The Blueprint is the primary product of the Southeast Conservation Adaptation Strategy (SECAS). Through SECAS, diverse partners are working together to design and achieve a connected network of lands and waters that supports thriving fish and wildlife populations and improved quality of life for people.
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