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This map shows areas covered by the high flow of the Colorado River mainstem between the Utah Colorado border and the upper pool of Lake Powell, Utah (146 miles). The channel boundary was mapped from public available NAIP imagery flown on June 28, 2011, when the river flow was 886 m3/s at the Cisco gage. Area not covered by 2011 flow is represented by bottomland boundary.
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OGC WFS Layer,
OGC WMS Layer,
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Tags: Arches National Park,
Canyonlands National Park,
Colorado River,
Grand County,
Moab,
This dataset represents the density of mesic shrub cover (averaged per 1.0 ha) as mapped along the Colorado River bottomland from the Colorado state line (San Juan and Grand Counties, Utah) to the southern Canyonlands NP boundary, as of September 2010. This mapping was conducted as part of the Colorado River Conservation Planning Project, a joint effort between the National Park Service, The Nature Conservancy, US Geological Survey, Bureau of Land Management, and Utah Forestry Fire and State Lands.
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Types: Citation,
Downloadable,
Map Service,
OGC WFS Layer,
OGC WMS Layer,
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Tags: Arches National Park,
Canyonlands National Park,
Colorado River,
Grand County,
Moab,
This dataset represents the number of mesic shrub species (averaged per 1.0 ha) as mapped along the Colorado River bottomland from the Colorado state line (San Juan and Grand Counties, Utah) to the southern Canyonlands NP boundary, as of September 2010. This mapping was conducted as part of the Colorado River Conservation Planning Project, a joint effort between the National Park Service, The Nature Conservancy, US Geological Survey, Bureau of Land Management, and Utah Forestry Fire and State Lands.
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Types: Citation,
Downloadable,
Map Service,
OGC WFS Layer,
OGC WMS Layer,
Shapefile;
Tags: Arches National Park,
Canyonlands National Park,
Colorado River,
Grand County,
Moab,
This dataset represents a penalty for tamarisk abundance (averaged per 1.0 ha) as mapped along the Colorado River bottomland from the Colorado state line (San Juan and Grand Counties, Utah) to the southern Canyonlands NP boundary, as of September 2010. This mapping was conducted as part of the Colorado River Conservation Planning Project, a joint effort between the National Park Service, The Nature Conservancy, US Geological Survey, Bureau of Land Management, and Utah Forestry Fire and State Lands.
Categories: Data;
Types: Citation,
Downloadable,
Map Service,
OGC WFS Layer,
OGC WMS Layer,
Shapefile;
Tags: Arches National Park,
Canyonlands National Park,
Colorado River,
Grand County,
Moab,
This a map showing distances from the Colorado River bottomland boundary between the Utah Colorado border and the upper pool of Lake Powell, Utah (146 miles). The bottomland boundary was mapped from publicly available NAIP imagery flown on June 28, 2011, and from project imagery flown in 2010. The bottomland boundary includes tributary channels and associated alluvial deposits, as those features are part of potential project areas and are important for habitat. The boundary extends only a short distance up larger tributaries (e.g. Dolores and Green Rivers)
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OGC WFS Layer,
OGC WMS Layer,
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Tags: Arches National Park,
Canyonlands National Park,
Colorado River,
Grand County,
Moab,
This is a habitat suitability model for bat watering in the Colorado River bottomland in Utah during high flow conditions. The model combines the presence of preferred slow water channel types (backwaters, isolated pools and tributary mouths), with cover types amenable to bat overflights and drinking 'on-the-wing'. See Open File Report, Rasmussen and Shafroth, Colorado River Conservation Planning for geoprocessing details.
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OGC WFS Layer,
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Tags: Arches National Park,
Canyonlands National Park,
Colorado River,
Grand County,
Moab,
This product provides spatial variations in wave thrust along shorelines in the Chesapeake Bay. Natural features of relevance along the Bay coast are salt marshes. In recent times, marshes have been eroding primarily through lateral erosion. Wave thrust represents a metric of wave attack acting on marsh edges. The wave thrust is calculated as the vertical integral of the dynamic pressure of waves. This product uses a consistent methodology with sufficient spatial resolution to include the distinct features of each marsh system. Waves under different climatological wind forcing conditions were simulated using the coupled ADCIRC/SWAN model system. The estuarine and bay areas are resolved with horizontal resolutions...
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Tags: Chesapeake Bay,
Conowingo Dam on Susquehanna River,
Marine Geology,
Maryland,
Salt marsh,
The shapefiles depict the valley bottom areas over which HEC-RAS model results were summarized. Valley bottoms were manually delineated in ArcMap by visually interpreting LIDAR terrain models and aerial imagery. Substantial changes in elevation, curvature, and slope were interpreted within the context of their position within the study reach to be channel banks and valley walls. Such areas were excluded from the valley bottom delineation.
Hydroacoustic (sonar) data were collected for the Mississippi, St. Croix, and Minnesota Rivers for the development of high-resolution bathymetry and sidescan imagery. Small areas containing priority mussel habitat had additional collection efforts to map water velocities and bottom composition. Combining these data in a GIS can provide key components to characterizing physical benthic habitat for native mussels in a riverine environment. This information is highly desired by the National Park Service to more accurately assess environmental factors that influence native mussel distribution. The collaborative effort was funded by the Legislative-Citizen Commission on Minnesota Resources (LCCMR) Environment and Natural...
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Types: Downloadable,
Map Service,
OGC WFS Layer,
OGC WMS Layer,
Shapefile;
Tags: Minnesota,
Mississippi River,
USGS-EMA-LOW-SB SMC: Freshwater mussels,
Wisconsin,
benthic ecosystems,
Coastal and estuarian wetlands in the Great Lakes Basin are increasingly impacted by habitat degradation, invasive species, and most recently (late 2010's), increased water levels. These wetlands act as an important buffer between the open lake and the near-shore areas, as key areas for nutrient cycling, as critical nurseries for many species of lake fish, and as habitat for numerous species of concern. Understanding how the cover and composition of these wetlands has changed over time is critical to making informed management decisions. By using both historical documents and imagery, multiple historic maps of wetland coverage were created in GIS to compare over time and to current maps and imagery of these critical...
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Types: Downloadable,
Map Service,
OGC WFS Layer,
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Tags: Betsie River, MI,
Dickinson Island, MI,
Fish Point State Wildlife Refuge, MI,
Lake Erie,
Lake Huron,
Spatial polygons of vegetation zones in 1981 for wetlands; P1, P2, P4, P8, T2, T3, and T8 within the Cottonwood Lake Study Area, Stutsman County, North Dakota. Created from a collection of digital orthorectified images from aerial photographs of the study area acquired during 1981 using Stewart and Kantrud classification system.
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Tags: Cottonwood Lake Study Area,
EARTH SCIENCE>BIOSPHERE>AQUATIC ECOSYSTEMS>WETLANDS>LACUSTRINE WETLANDS,
EARTH SCIENCE>BIOSPHERE>AQUATIC ECOSYSTEMS>WETLANDS>PALUSTRINE WETLANDS,
EARTH SCIENCE>BIOSPHERE>TERRESTRIAL ECOSYSTEMS>WETLANDS>LACUSTRINE WETLANDS,
EARTH SCIENCE>BIOSPHERE>TERRESTRIAL ECOSYSTEMS>WETLANDS>PALUSTRINE WETLANDS,
Spatial polygons of vegetation zones in 1985 for wetlands; P1, P2, P3, P4, P7, P8, T2, T3, and T8 within the Cottonwood Lake Study Area, Stutsman County, North Dakota. Created from a collection of digital orthorectified images from aerial photographs of the study area acquired during 1985 using Stewart and Kantrud classification system.
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Types: Citation,
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Tags: Cottonwood Lake Study Area,
EARTH SCIENCE>BIOSPHERE>AQUATIC ECOSYSTEMS>WETLANDS>LACUSTRINE WETLANDS,
EARTH SCIENCE>BIOSPHERE>AQUATIC ECOSYSTEMS>WETLANDS>PALUSTRINE WETLANDS,
EARTH SCIENCE>BIOSPHERE>TERRESTRIAL ECOSYSTEMS>WETLANDS>LACUSTRINE WETLANDS,
EARTH SCIENCE>BIOSPHERE>TERRESTRIAL ECOSYSTEMS>WETLANDS>PALUSTRINE WETLANDS,
Mule deer in the South Tuscarora herd are part of the larger “Area 6” deer population that reside in the southern and eastern portion of this big game Management Area (MA 6). The winter range for this sub population is located along the western slopes of the Tuscarora Mountains and the Dunphy Hills. The spring migration route for this deer herd traverses north along the toe slopes of the Tuscarora Mountains on the east side and narrows to approximately 600 meters at one pinch point near the Carlin -Pete Mine area. The migration route generally spans about 30 miles to the northeast to higher elevations in the northern Tuscarora Mountains. Important stopover areas include Richmond Mountain, Jack and Little Jack Creeks,...
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Tags: Carlin,
Nevada,
Tuscarora,
USA,
animal behavior,
Mule deer in the South Tuscarora herd are part of the larger “Area 6” deer population that reside in the southern and eastern portion of this big game Management Area (MA 6). The winter range for this sub population is located along the western slopes of the Tuscarora Mountains and the Dunphy Hills. The spring migration route for this deer herd traverses north along the toe slopes of the Tuscarora Mountains on the east side and narrows to approximately 600 meters at one pinch point near the Carlin -Pete Mine area. The migration route generally spans about 30 miles to the northeast to higher elevations in the northern Tuscarora Mountains. Important stopover areas include Richmond Mountain, Jack and Little Jack Creeks,...
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OGC WMS Layer,
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Tags: Carlin,
Nevada,
Tuscarora,
USA,
animal behavior,
The Area 7 mule deer population is one of the state’s largest deer herds with an estimated population of about 11,000 in 2019. This deer herd is highly important to Nevada from an economic and ecological perspective. It’s one of the longest distance deer migrations in the state of Nevada with some animals known to migrate over 120 miles during a single migration. A subset of this population, known as the “Pequop” herd, crosses a major highway (US highway 93) and an interstate (Interstate-80) twice annually during their seasonal migration. Several million dollars in wildlife crossing structures have been constructed to help these deer during their migration, yet they still face challenges to connectivity between...
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Types: Downloadable,
Map Service,
OGC WFS Layer,
OGC WMS Layer,
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Tags: Nevada,
Pequop,
USA,
Wells,
animal behavior,
This data set provides the results of a conservation prioritization analysis for wadeable streams in Missouri, USA. Higher values (Maximum of 1) represent higher conservation value. Conservation values were derived using Zonation conservation planning software which used species distribution models, a prioritization algorithm (either Core-Area or Additive Benefit), species weighting (None, Vulnerability, or Listing Status), connecitivity (Yes or No), and masks representing different conservation networks (None, Priority Watersheds, Conservation Opportunity Areas, and Existing Conservation Network). For more information see "An Assessment of Stream Fish Vulnerability and an Evaluation of Conservation Networks in...
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Types: Downloadable,
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Tags: Aquatic Biology,
USGS Science Data Catalog (SDC),
biota,
environment,
inlandWaters,
The Kern River deer herd includes primarily California mule deer (Odocoileus hemionus californicus), but some Inyo mule deer (Odocoileus hemionus inyoensis) associate with California mule deer on the summer range. The population size peaked at 11,000 individuals in 1949, but in recent decades numbers have decreased to an estimated 3,500 deer in 1995 and 2,000 deer in 2001. The population size estimate is now, conservatively, approximately 4,000 individuals owing primarily to habitat expansion by the 2001 McNally Fire (California Department of Fish and Wildlife unpublished data). The Kern River herd winters in Sequoia National Forest north of Johnsondale and east of Slate Mountain. In the spring, they migrate northward...
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Tags: California,
Johnsondale,
United States,
animal behavior,
biota,
The Big Lake pronghorn herd resides in the White Mountains of eastern Arizona within Game Management Unit 1. Mid-March, the Big Lake pronghorn migrate, crossing the Little Colorado River approximately four miles north of River Reservoir, to their high-elevation summer range. The summer range consists primarily of high-elevation grasslands and large alpine meadows near Big Lake. Some individuals continue several miles farther south to summer near Middle Mountain. Fall migration occurs in early to mid-October, when the herd moves north to low-elevation grassland habitats west of Eagar, Arizona. The primary threat to this migration corridor is State Route 260, which experiences high traffic volume and requires crossing...
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Tags: Arizona,
Eagar,
Springerville,
United States,
animal behavior,
The Blue Canyon mule deer herd winters in the western foothills of the Sierra Nevada south of Interstate 80. The winter range includes dense conifer and oak woodland that is shared with a resident portion of the herd on a mix of public and private lands. In the spring, the Blue Canyon herd migrates from their winter range eastward along two main paths both north and south of the Forest Hill Divide to higher elevation terrain near Soda Springs and the crest of the Sierra Nevada in the Granite Chief Wilderness. The summer range includes primarily mixed conifer opening up to high alpine granite near the crest of the Sierra Nevada. The population size is not well known due to limited surveys, but is considered stable...
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OGC WFS Layer,
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Tags: California,
Soda Springs,
United States,
animal behavior,
biota,
The Blue Canyon mule deer herd winters in the western foothills of the Sierra Nevada south of Interstate 80. The winter range includes dense conifer and oak woodland that is shared with a resident portion of the herd on a mix of public and private lands. In the spring, the Blue Canyon herd migrates from their winter range eastward along two main paths both north and south of the Forest Hill Divide to higher elevation terrain near Soda Springs and the crest of the Sierra Nevada in the Granite Chief Wilderness. The summer range includes primarily mixed conifer opening up to high alpine granite near the crest of the Sierra Nevada. The population size is not well known due to limited surveys, but is considered stable...
Categories: Data;
Types: Downloadable,
Map Service,
OGC WFS Layer,
OGC WMS Layer,
Shapefile;
Tags: California,
Soda Springs,
United States,
animal behavior,
biota,
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