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The aquatic index of ecological integrity, version 3.1, was used as a mask to extract the aquatic classed from DSLland, version 3.1. Since streams flow into other habitats, such as wetlands, you will notice additional classes included here.
Predators are a known detriment to beach nesting birds at Cape May National Wildlife Refuge. Although the refuge regularly contracts with USDA to provide 2 weeks of predator trapping, predators historically move onto the refuge throughout a breeding season and detrimentally affect the beach nesting birds when contract work has already been spent or USDA is unavailable to get out to specific sites. In recent years, this has resulted in low productivity. Funding is requested to implement more adaptive predation management efforts through either increased trapping duration, and/or to purchase trapping and control supplies for refuge staff, and to purchase supplies to trap and control ghost crabs.
NatureServe update of Nature’s Network’s Imperiled Species Cores using new Map of Biodiversity Importance (MoBI) modeling methodology. For more information on MoBI visit https://www.natureserve.org/map-biodiversity-importance.
Funding will be provided to Save the Bay, an organization based in Rhode Island that is developing cutting-edge runnelling techniques that are improving thousands of acres of marshes across the region. Save the Bay’s Restoration Director works with partners throughout the Northeast region, and regularly hosts partners in the field and via webinars to share tips and lessons learned on implementing these techniques. Funds will allow her to provide greater regional support in the form of training salt marsh practitioners and sharing evaluation results of runnelling effectiveness that will inform work throughout the Northeast. In addition to these funds, an additional $30,000 of Coastal program funding will supplement...
Connect the Connecticut is a partnership effort to create a landscape conservation design for the Connecticut River watershed that provides a roadmap for identifying the best starting places for conservation — areas that partners agree should be priorities in order to ensure that important species, habitats, and natural processes will be sustained into the future, even in the face of climate and land-use change.Using an innovative modeling approach developed by the Designing Sustainable Landscapes (DSL) project at the University of Massachusetts Amherst, and the best available regional science from the North Atlantic Landscape Conservation Cooperative (North Atlantic LCC), The Nature Conservancy (TNC), and the U.S....
The Chesapeake Watershed Investments for Landscape Defense (Chesapeake WILD) Grants program supports efforts to conserve and enhance wildlife habitats, sustain natural resources and benefit human communities throughout the Chesapeake Bay watershed. Goals: Advancing climate change adaptation and land-use planning by increasing science capacity to support improved strategic planning, conservation design, monitoring and applied science activities necessary to ensure resilience of natural ecosystems and habitats; Increasing capacity and support for coordinated restoration and conservation activities in the Chesapeake Bay watershed, particularly in historically and systemically under-resourced communities, through outreach,...
This layer represents agricultural resource priorities in the Highlands region. This layer is intended to inform grant proposals for the Highlands Conservation Act. The Highlands Conservation Act authorizes the Secretary of the Interior to provide financial assistance to the States of Connecticut, New Jersey, New York, and Pennsylvania (Highland States) to preserve and protect high priority conservation land in the Highlands region.This layer ranges from 0 to 8, with 8 being highest priorities for agricultural preservation in the Highlands Region. The layer scores all 30m cells that are, or were, in agricultural use in 2016 or 2021 based on the 2021 NLCD layer (classes 81 and 82). Cells with prime, state, and local/unique...
Funding will replenish a 1,000 foot beach to increase horseshoe crab spawning and egg abundance, which will in turn provide new foraging resources for Ruddy Turnstone, Red Knot, and other migratory shorebirds that use the Great Bay-Little Egg ecosystem, a key stopover for thousands of shorebirds. The project site is located along Forsythe’s wildlife drive, with an adjacent viewing platform, which will provide viewing opportunities for this amazing wildlife spectacle. Signage and stewardship (funded from another source) will be used to prevent human disturbance at the beach. This project will serve as an example of successful shorebird management, and the refuge intends to seek funding for additional replenishment...
The Northeast States identified the Least Shrew as a Regional Species of Greatest Conservation Need. To advance conservation, better information is needed to determine the species distribution and conservation status within the Region. To address this need, we are working with the USGS to develop an eDNA survey protocol that will pilot efforts in Virginia and Maryland. Once the protocol is perfected, the pilot effort will be expanded to cover the species’ entire range to collect critical needed to evaluate the species’ status and infor future conservation strategies.
The Delaware River Basin Restoration Program implements conservation, stewardship, and enhancement projects in four areas: conserving and restoring fish and wildlife habitat; improving and sustaining water quality; upgrading water management, and reducing flood damage; enhancing recreational opportunities and public access.Since 2018, the Program has awarded $40.4 million to 159 projects, which generated $59.7 million in match, for a total conservation impact of $100.1 million. These projects will collectively restore over 22 miles of riparian habitat and 76 miles of stream habitat, conserve and enhance 1,322 acres of wetland habitat, restore 255 acres of floodplain, improve 27,105 acres of forest habitat and open...
The Delaware River clubtail (Gomphurus septima delawarensis) is an endemic dragonfly subspecies found in the Delaware River watershed. Due to significant data gaps regarding its taxonomy, distribution, habitat associations, and response to key threats, it is considered a Science Needs species by the Science Applications program in the Northeast. This pilot study is focused on the known historic locations for the subspecies in New York and intends to field-test survey methodologies for assessing its distribution within the Delaware watershed. We will collect all Gomphidae exuviae (shed larval skins) encountered during timed searches at 11 historical locations across New York. These surveys will be repeated at these...
This layers represents Underresourced Communities in the Highlands region that have been identified by the states and supplemented with a National dataset. This layer is intended to inform grant proposals for the Highlands Conservation Act. The Highlands Conservation Act authorizes the Secretary of the Interior to provide financial assistance to the States of Connecticut, New Jersey, New York, and Pennsylvania (Highland States) to preserve and protect high priority conservation land in the Highlands region.This layer was created by merging underresourced communities identified in 5 state layers and 1 national layer. The state layers include NY Disadvantaged Communities (NY DAC), CT Environmental Justice Block Groups...
This layer represents water resource priorities in the Highlands region. This layer is intended to inform grant proposals for the Highlands Conservation Act. The Highlands Conservation Act authorizes the Secretary of the Interior to provide financial assistance to the States of Connecticut, New Jersey, New York, and Pennsylvania (Highland States) to preserve and protect high priority conservation land in the Highlands region.This layer ranges from 0-6, with 6 being the highest priority for water preservation in the Highlands region. The layer prioritizes areas important for drinking water using USGS Principal Aquifers, classes Carbonate-rock, Sandstone and carbonate-rock, and Sandstone/Semiconsolidated sandstone...
Determine the distribution, status, life history, and ecology of regional priority at risk cuckoo bumblebees and bumblebees throughout USFWS Region 5. Test effects of habitat availability, land use and land cover, and management actions on regional priority pollinator species and associated species. Attain more information on plant-pollinator networks priority pollinator species to guide vegetation restoration and management for conservation of at-risk, priority pollinator species and pollinators broadly.
US Fish and Wildlife Service Northeast Region Areas of Agreement Map, version 2. Composed of 4 conservation designs: Nature’s Network, NatureServe’s Map of Biodiversity Importance, Esri’s Green Infrastructure, The Nature Conservancy’s Resilient and Connected Networks. Each layer is coded as a 1, so the number of layers is indicative of how many layers overlap in a given area. The concept is that if multiple analyses indicate an area is important for conservation, then it is likely to have a higher importance than other areas. This approach offers a couple of advantages: it is not necessary to “choose” a single conservation design over others, and it narrows down where the most important areas may be for conservation...
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This layer represents forest resource priorities in the Highlands region. This layer is intended to inform grant proposals for the Highlands Conservation Act. The Highlands Conservation Act authorizes the Secretary of the Interior to provide financial assistance to the States of Connecticut, New Jersey, New York, and Pennsylvania (Highland States) to preserve and protect high priority conservation land in the Highlands region.This layer ranges from 0 to 14 (with 14 being highest priorities for forest conservation in the region). The layer prioritizes areas that are important for forest connectivity (using the UMassDSL forest connectivity layer), high forest carbon storage in 2050 (using the TNC forest layer), and...
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The aquatic core networks is one of a suite of products from the Nature’s Network project (naturesnetwork.org). These datasets represent the aquatic core networks, which include lotic and lentic core areas and aquatic buffers. NOTE - The aquatic buffers dataset has been converted to integers and only contain values of 90 -100 (0.9 - 1) for online purposes, the original dataset is included in the download and contains all values. All datasets in this map are included in the download. The aquatic core networks represents intact, well-connected stream reaches, lakes, and ponds in the Northeast and Mid-Atlantic region that, if protected as part of stream networks and watersheds, will continue to support a broad...
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This dataset is a component of a complete package of products from the Connect the Connecticut project. Connect the Connecticut is a collaborative effort to identify shared priorities for conserving the Connecticut River Watershed for future generations, considering the value of fish and wildlife species and the natural ecosystems they inhabit. Click here to download the full data package, including all documentation. This dataset identifies large and medium rivers within the Connecticut River watershed that provide habitat for five anadromous fish species: American shad, blueback herring, shortnose sturgeon, alewife, and sea lamprey. Habitat includes the mainstem and major tributaries of the Connecticut River...
The Fish and Wildlife Program of the Seneca Nation works to protect and restore natural resources on their lands. They have an interest in creating a small pollinator restoration area to serve as a demonstration area and gain experience to conduct larger restorations on disturbed areas. This project provides support to theSeneca nation in the form of Service staff expertice as well as financial support for establishing a pollinator friendly plot.
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