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This mapping project was a collaboration among the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service (Service) and staff from the Arkansas Game and Fish and Natural Heritage Commissions. It provides general information on the potential environmental risk to species of concern and sensitive habitats from proposed wind energy projects in Arkansas. According to the Land-Based Wind Energy Guidelines, environmental risks include direct impacts e.g., collisions with turbines and associated infrastructure, habitat loss or degradation from turbines and infrastructure, habitat fragmentation, displacement or behavioral changes, and indirect impacts e.g., reduced nesting and breeding densities and the social ramifications of those reductions,...
Categories: Data,
Project;
Types: Map Service,
OGC WFS Layer,
OGC WMS Layer,
OGC WMS Service;
Tags: At-risk Species,
Collaborative Partnerships,
Decision Support,
EARTH SCIENCE,
EARTH SCIENCE,
The South Atlantic Conservation Blueprint is a living spatial plan to conserve natural and cultural resources for future generations. It identifies shared conservation priorities across the South Atlantic region.Blueprint 2021, released in August 2021, is a totally data-driven plan based on terrestrial, freshwater, marine, and cross-ecosystem indicators. It uses the current condition of those indicators to prioritize the most important areas for natural and cultural resources across the South Atlantic geography. Through a connectivity analysis, the Blueprint also identifies corridors that link coastal and inland areas and span climate gradients. The Blueprint reflects extensive feedback from the broader cooperative...
Categories: Data,
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Types: Map Service,
OGC WFS Layer,
OGC WMS Layer,
OGC WMS Service;
Tags: Project,
SA Science Catalog,
biota,
environment,
final,
This is a grant to support the continuation of the Fishes of Texas Program. Texas Parks and Wildlife Department (TPWD) and their recipient, University of Texas at Austin, manage the Fishes of Texas program and the Native Fish Conservation Network (NFCN). This funding will support staff (i.e., research associate) operations that are required for continued stewardship of these important resources that are utilized by state and federal agencies as well as private and academic institutions. This effort has five main Objectives:For Objective 1, the research associate will compile and collate all research, monitoring, and restoration projects conducted within the 20 Texas Native Fish Conservation Areas (NFCAs) since the...
In collaboration with the Mississippi Department of Wildlife, Fisheries, and Parks Natural Heritage Program, the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service (Service) developed the Mississippi Solar Siting Tool to provide stakeholders the general guidance necessary to reduce potential adverse impacts to sensitive habitats and species in Mississippi when siting proposed solar energy projects. The purpose of the map is to assist solar energy developers in screening environmentally sensitive areas compared to areas where lower environmental impacts are anticipated. The decision framework is similar to that described in the Service’s 2012 Land-Based Wind Energy Guidelines (Land-Based Wind Energy Guidelines), particularly during...
This project will refine the hierarchical prioritization within and across the Texas Native Fish Conservation Areas (NFCAs) for integration into the comprehensive revisions of the Texas Conservation Action Plan in 2025. Research products (SDMs and hierarchical prioritization of NFCAs) will guide efforts that result in long-term focus for management and make the most efficient use of limited conservation resources for maintaining or improving conditions for Species of Greatest Conservation Need (SGCN) fishes. Research products can subsequently be used to support efforts such as: updating Species Status Assessments used to inform revisions of the SGCN and State Threatened and Endangered species lists, refining the...
Categories: Data,
Project;
Types: Map Service,
OGC WFS Layer,
OGC WMS Layer,
OGC WMS Service;
Tags: EARTH SCIENCE > LAND SURFACE > LANDSCAPE,
Midwest R3 Science Applications,
Project,
SA Science Catalog,
data.gov,
Formed in 2007, the Washington Wildlife Habitat Connectivity Working Group (WWHCWG) is an open collaborative science-based effort to produce tools and analyses that identify opportunities and priorities to provide habitat connectivity in Washington and surrounding habitats (https://waconnected.org). The WWHCWG began with a Statewide Habitat Connectivity Analysis, which highlighted several regions of the state that would benefit from finer-scale analyses. The group has since conducted analyses across many of those regions. The US Fish and Wildlife Service provided funding to develop habitat connectivity models for one of the remaining regions–Washington’s Cascades to Coast region. The goal of this project was to...
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.
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.
Categories: Data,
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Types: Map Service,
OGC WFS Layer,
OGC WMS Layer,
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Tags: Project,
SA Science Catalog,
final
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...
Categories: Data,
Project;
Tags: EARTH SCIENCE > LAND SURFACE > LANDSCAPE,
Project,
Science Applications,
accepted,
biota,
The Southeast Conservation Adaptation Strategy (SECAS) and Southeast Blueprint Blueprint continue to build on years of investment by the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service (USFWS) and partners to develop, refine, and apply conservation blueprints to advance on-the-ground conservation actions across the region. Astute Spruce, LLC and the USFWS collaborated closely in the first phase of this project “Enhanced User Engagement with Conservation Blueprints in the Southeastern U.S.” (F19AC00609) to develop a pilot version of the Southeast Conservation Blueprint Explorer specifically intended to make it easier to access, engage with, and interpret the Southeast Conservation Blueprint and underlying sub-regional conservation...
The Southeastern United States is a biodiversity hotspot that is threatened by a variety of anthropogenic influences, including urbanization and climate change. Of the 65 plants that have vanished in North America since European settlement, 25 (40%) have been from the Southeast. The Southeastern Plant Conservation Alliance (SE PCA) seeks to develop a Regional Species of Greatest Conservation Need (RSGCN) list for plants to inform conservation strategies and conduct conservation status assessments and ranking updates for priority species. This list is needed to communicate shared priorities between agencies andother conservation partners. It can be referenced in State Wildlife Action Plan revision and implementation...
This project will utilize social network analysis and complementary methods to build and share actionable information about the diverse partnerships and networks that are organizing conservation and stewardship activities at the landscape scale across the Southeast region.AWARD ID: 4500125530START DATE: 08/20/2021END DATE: 12/31/2023SOURCE: Region 4 Science ApplicationsAMOUNT: $150,000PI: Shawn Johnson and Patrick BixlerCONTACT INFO: Center for Natural Resources and Environmental Policy; University of Montana; 32 Campus Drive; Missoula, MT 59812Office: 406-381-2904 Email: shawn.johnson@umontana.eduLEAD ORG: Montana Cooperative Wildlife Research Unit; University of MontanaFWS PO: Mallory Martin
The USFWS Southeast Region’s joint Science Applications and Migratory bird program (SAMB) recently launched an effort to optimize operations to best achieve the objectives of the program. This effort developed a decision statement, established an objectives hierarchy, and identify possible measurable attributes to assess progress. The effort has been quite successful and well received, however there remain several task and analyses that will help solidify and complete the decision analysis effort. Here we will test the operability, (i.e., the practical capacity to collect these metrics on a regular basis to assess the state of the program and check progress towards goals). Additionally, SAMB needs the ability to...
Brook trout (Salvelinus fontinalis) populations have suffered extensive declines in their native range due to habitat loss, invasive species, and climate change. In the Southeast, brook trout are designated as Species of Greatest Conservation Need (SGCN) in GA, NC, SC, TN, VA, and WV and are an indicator of coldwater ecosystems in the Appalachian Mountains. This project seeks to take a manger-centric, co-production approach, to characterize how and why impacts on brook trout populations differ over space in the Southeast. This project will evaluate the robustness of GIS-derived landscape data to predict spatial variation in measured stream temperature and link thermal regimes to trout population stability over time....
Together in partnership with Mississippi State University (MSU) and locally based social scientists, U.S. Fish and WildlifeService (FWS) Southeast Region social scientists will identify and implement methods and tools within the social sciencesto address the most pressing priorities of the region, including enhancing public perception of decisions related tohabitat conservation and threatened, endangered, and at-risk species, effectively engaging historically underservedprivate landowners, and addressing climate change adaptation across the region, particularly in underserved urbancommunities. Social scientists within relevant organizations, institutions, and communities will be engaged as needed todevelop specific...
The goal of landscape conservation is to align conservation strategies across jurisdictions and broader geographies than any single organization has the capacity to manage. A landscape approach is critical to meet the emerging needs of state, federal, tribal, and private partners. There are several landscape conservation efforts in the Pacific Northwest in various stages. These efforts have different perspectives and practices related to stakeholder engagement, governance, landscape science, decision support tools and implementation strategies. There is tremendous value in sharing experiences, approaches, successes, and challenges. This Forum set the stage for increased coordination and communication around landscape...
Categories: Data,
Project;
Tags: CONSERVATION,
CONSERVATION,
Collaborative Partnerships,
Conservation Planning (6.4),
EARTH SCIENCE,
UPDATEThe Southeast Conservation Blueprint is the primary product of the Southeast Conservation Adaptation Strategy (SECAS). It is a living, spatial plan to achieve the SECAS vision of a connected network of lands and waters across the Southeast and Caribbean. The Blueprint is regularly updated to incorporate new data, partner input, and information about on-the-ground conditions.
The threats and anthropogenic influences on conservation are often global in scale (e.g., climate change, invasive species, etc), however, the relevant decisions and actions to conserve natural areas and ecosystem services occur within unique jurisdictions. Thus, the socio-ecological complexity of these problems requires collaboration across large spatial areas and diverse community interests. However, the interoperability of different planning or decision-support products across decision makers, jurisdictions, and objectives can impede integration and collaboration across space and scale. The objective of the Midwest Conservation Blueprint is to provide a comprehensive framework to coordinate voluntary conservation...
Categories: Data,
Project;
Types: Map Service,
OGC WFS Layer,
OGC WMS Layer,
OGC WMS Service;
Tags: Collaborative Partnerships,
Conservation Science Support,
Conservation design,
Conservation planning,
Decision Support,
In recognition of the need for landscape-scale planning to address the conservation challenges of the Midwestern United States, the Midwest Association of Fish and Wildlife Agencies passed a resolution endorsing the Midwest Landscape Initiative, a collaborative that identifies shared conservation priorities and develops solutions for healthy, functioning ecosystems in the Midwest (MAFWA 2019). To address these goals the Midwest Landscape Initiative identified an opportunity to create a regional terrestrial habitat system that could provide consistent and structured description of natural and cultural habitats across the region. The regional habitat data aids partners by providing a common lexicon through which conservation...
Categories: Data,
Project;
Types: Map Service,
OGC WFS Layer,
OGC WMS Layer,
OGC WMS Service;
Tags: Data.gov USFWS Science Applications,
Landscape Conservation,
Project,
SA Science Catalog,
biota,
The Southeast Conservation Blueprint is the primary product of the Southeast Conservation Adaptation Strategy (SECAS). It is a living, spatial plan to achieve the SECAS vision of a connected network of lands and waters across the Southeast and Caribbean. The Blueprint is regularly updated to incorporate new data, partner input, and information about on-the-ground conditions.
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