Sage-grouse Conservation Assessment Boundary

Boundary of the conservation assessment of Greater Sage-grouse and sagebrush habitat conducted by the Western Association of Fish and Wildlife Agencies. The boundary is derived from the pre-settlement distribution of the Sage-grouse (Schroeder et al., 2004).

Tags: Alberta, Arizona, British Columbia, California, Canada, All tags... Centrocercus urophasianus, Colorado, Idaho, Montana, Nebraska, Nevada, New Mexico, North America, North Dakota, Oregon, Saskatchewan, South Dakota, USGS-EMA-LOW-SB SMC: Greater sage-grouse, United States, Utah, Washington, Wyoming, biogeography, biota, bird conservation, birds, boundary, conservation, conservation assessment, environment, habitats, maps and atlases, study areas, Fewer tags

Proportion of Non-Sage-grouse Habitat Within an 18-km Radius

This map depicts the proportion of non-Sage-grouse habitat with 18km of each pixel. The map was produced using a moving window analysis on the Distribution of Non-Sage Grouse Habitat in the Conservation Assessment Area with a search radius of 18km. The product of the moving window was the mean pixel value within the window. This map has a 540m resolution.

Categories: Data; Types: Downloadable, GeoTIFF, Map Service, Raster; Tags: Alberta, Arizona, British Columbia, California, Canada, All tags... Centrocercus urophasianus, Colorado, Idaho, Montana, Nebraska, Nevada, New Mexico, North America, North Dakota, Oregon, Saskatchewan, South Dakota, USGS-EMA-LOW-SB SMC: Greater sage-grouse, United States, Utah, Washington, Wyoming, Wyoming Basins Ecoregional Assessment, biogeography, biota, bird conservation, birds, conservation, ecology, environment, habitats, land use and land cover, life sciences, maps and atlases, non-habitat, Fewer tags

Spatial layers generated by the Prioritizing Restoration of Sagebrush Ecosystems Tool (PReSET) applied in Southern Wyoming

All data layers included in this data release were created using the Prioritizing Restoration of Sagebrush Ecosystems Tool (PReSET) tool, which relies on spatial inputs on species distributions and likelihood of restoration success to select parcels for sagebrush restoration. The PReSET is a workflow that relies on the prioritizr package in program R to identify parcels for effective and meaningful sagebrush restoration.Inputs into the tool included occupancy data layers for six focal species (Brewer’s sparrow (Spizella breweri), sagebrush sparrow (Artemisiospiza nevadensis), sage thrasher (Oreoscoptes montanus), greater sage-grouse (Centrocercus urophasianus), pronghorn (Antilocapra americana) and greater short-horned...

Tags: Southern Wyoming, USGS Science Data Catalog (SDC), USGS-CC Sage Steppe, USGS-EMA-LOW Management and Restoration, USGS-EMA-LOW Priority Landscapes, All tags... USGS-EMA-LOW-FWD Risk Assessment, Decision Science, Forecasting, USGS-EMA-LOW-IS Ecology and/or Impacts, USGS-EMA-LOW-MR Landscape Ecology, USGS-EMA-LOW-PL Wyoming LCI, USGS-EMA-LOW-SB SMC: Greater sage-grouse, USGS-EMA-LOW-SB SMC: Migratory birds, USGS-EMA-LOW-SB SMC: Multi-species, WLCI, Wyoming, Wyoming Landscape Conservation Initiative, biota, multi-species management, restoration, sagebrush, spatial conservation prioritization, Fewer tags

Greater sage-grouse roost site relative abundance in the Wyoming Basins Ecoregional Assessment area

Greater sage-grouse (Centrocercus urophasianus) have been declining both spatially and numerically throughout their range due to anthropogenic disturbance and loss and fragmentation of sagebrush (Artemisia spp.) habitats. Understanding how sage-grouse respond to these habitat alterations and disturbances, particularly the types of disturbances and extent at which they respond, is critical to designing management actions and prioritizing areas of conservation. To address these needs, we developed this spatially explicit model of the relationship between occurrence and abundance of greater sage-grouse and multi-scaled measures of vegetation, abiotic, and disturbance in the Wyoming Basins Ecoregional Assessment (WBEA)...

Tags: Centrocercus urophasianus, Colorado, Idaho, Montana, USGS-EMA-LOW-SB SMC: Greater sage-grouse, All tags... United States, Utah, Wyoming, Wyoming Basins Ecoregional Assessment, biogeography, biota, birds, conservation, environment, life sciences, relative abundance, Fewer tags

Greater sage-grouse general use relative abundance in the Wyoming Basins Ecoregional Assessment area

Greater sage-grouse (Centrocercus urophasianus) have been declining both spatially and numerically throughout their range due to anthropogenic disturbance and loss and fragmentation of sagebrush (Artemisia spp.) habitats. Understanding how sage-grouse respond to these habitat alterations and disturbances, particularly the types of disturbances and extent at which they respond, is critical to designing management actions and prioritizing areas of conservation. To address these needs, we developed this spatially explict model of the relationship between occurrence and abundance of greater sage-grouse and multi-scaled measures of vegetation, abiotic, and disturbance in the Wyoming Basins Ecoregional Assessment (WBEA)...

Tags: Centrocercus urophasianus, Colorado, Idaho, Montana, USGS-EMA-LOW-SB SMC: Greater sage-grouse, All tags... United States, Utah, Wyoming, Wyoming Basins Ecoregional Assessment, biogeography, biota, birds, conservation, environment, life sciences, relative abundance, Fewer tags

Agricultural Lands within the Greater Sage-Grouse Conservation Assessment Study Area

Agricultural land cover in the study area for the conservation assessment of Greater Sage-grouse conducted by the Western Association of Fish and Wildlife Agencies. This dataset was developed from Sagestitch, an Eastern Washington Shrubsteppe Mapping Project, several state level GAP products (AZ, CA, NM, OR, and WA), National Landcover Data (ND,SD,NE), and the PFRA' s Generalized Landcover (Alberta, Saskatchewan).

Tags: Alberta, Arizona, California, Centrocercus urophasianus, Colorado, All tags... Idaho, Montana, Nebraska, Nevada, New Mexico, North Dakota, Oregon, Saskatchewan, South Dakota, USGS-EMA-LOW-SB SMC: Greater sage-grouse, Utah, Washington, Western United States, Wyoming, agricultural land, biota, birds, cropland, environment, farmland, land use and land cover, vegetation, Fewer tags

Projected sagebrush recovery in greater sage-grouse (Centrocercus urophasianus) habitat from energy development across southwestern Wyoming

Identifying ecologically relevant reference sites is important for evaluating ecosystem recovery, but the relevance of references that are temporally static is unclear in the context of vast landscapes with varying disturbance and environmental contexts over space and time. This question is pertinent for landscapes dominated by sagebrush (Artemisia spp.) which face a suite of threats from disturbance and development but also have lengthy recovery times. Here, we applied a dynamic reference approach to studying and projecting recovery of sagebrush on former oil and gas well pads in southwestern Wyoming, USA using over 3 decades of remote sensing data (1985-2018). We also used quantile regression to evaluate factors...

Tags: Southwestern Wyoming, USGS-EMA-LOW-PL Sagebrush Steppe, USGS-EMA-LOW-SB SMC: Greater sage-grouse, USGS-EMA-LOW-SB SMC: Native Species Restoration, USGS-EMA-LOW-SS Oil and gas, All tags... United States of America, Upper Colorado River Basin, Wyoming, Wyoming Landscape Conservation Initiative, atmospheric and climatic processes, biota, habitat alteration and disturbance, habitats, natural resource management, remediation, soil moisture, Fewer tags

Rasters representing differing levels of connectivity to protected lands generated by the Prioritizing Restoration of Sagebrush Ecosystems Tool (PReSET) applied in Southern Wyoming associated with Figure 4 in Duchardt et al. 2021

All data layers included in this data release were created using the Prioritizing Restoration of Sagebrush Ecosystems Tool (PReSET) tool, which relies on spatial inputs on species distributions and likelihood of restoration success to select parcels for sagebrush restoration. The PReSET is a workflow that relies on the prioritizr package in program R to identify parcels for effective and meaningful sagebrush restoration. Inputs into the tool included occupancy data layers for six focal species (Brewer’s sparrow (Spizella breweri), sagebrush sparrow (Artemisiospiza nevadensis), sage thrasher (Oreoscoptes montanus), greater sage-grouse (Centrocercus urophasianus), pronghorn (Antilocapra americana) and greater short-horned...

Tags: USGS-EMA-LOW Management and Restoration, USGS-EMA-LOW Priority Landscapes, USGS-EMA-LOW-FWD Risk Assessment, Decision Science, Forecasting, USGS-EMA-LOW-MR Landscape Conservation Design (LCD), USGS-EMA-LOW-PL Wyoming LCI, All tags... USGS-EMA-LOW-SB SMC: Greater sage-grouse, USGS-EMA-LOW-SB SMC: Migratory birds, USGS-EMA-LOW-SB SMC: Multi-species, WLCI, Wyoming, Wyoming Landscape Conservation Initiative, biota, multi-species management, restoration, sagebrush, spatial conservation prioritization, Fewer tags

Proportion of Non-Sage-grouse Habitat Within an 54-km Radius

This map depicts the proportion of non-Sage-grouse habitat within 54km of each pixel. The map was produced using a moving window analysis on the Distribution of Non-Sage Grouse Habitat in the Conservation Assessment Area with a search radius of 54km. The product of the moving window was the mean pixel value within the window. This map has a 540m resolution.

Categories: Data; Types: Downloadable, GeoTIFF, Map Service, Raster; Tags: Alberta, Arizona, British Columbia, California, Canada, All tags... Centrocercus urophasianus, Colorado, Idaho, Montana, Nebraska, Nevada, New Mexico, North America, North Dakota, Oregon, Saskatchewan, South Dakota, USGS-EMA-LOW-SB SMC: Greater sage-grouse, United States, Utah, Washington, Wyoming, Wyoming Basins Ecoregional Assessment, biogeography, biota, bird conservation, birds, conservation, ecology, environment, habitats, land use and land cover, life sciences, maps and atlases, non-habitat, Fewer tags

Greater sage-grouse roost site probability of occurrence (high abundance) in the Wyoming Basins Ecoregional Assessment area.

Greater sage-grouse (Centrocercus urophasianus) have been declining both spatially and numerically throughout their range due to anthropogenic disturbance and loss and fragmentation of sagebrush (Artemisia spp.) habitats. Understanding how sage-grouse respond to these habitat alterations and disturbances, particularly the types of disturbances and extent at which they respond, is critical to designing management actions and prioritizing areas of conservation. To address these needs, we developed this spatially explict model of the relationship between occurrence and abundance of greater sage-grouse and multi-scaled measures of vegetation, abiotic, and disturbance in the Wyoming Basins Ecoregional Assessment (WBEA)...

Tags: Centrocercus urophasianus, Colorado, Idaho, Montana, USGS-EMA-LOW-SB SMC: Greater sage-grouse, All tags... United States, Utah, Wyoming, Wyoming Basins Ecoregional Assessment, biogeography, biota, birds, conservation, environment, life sciences, probability of occurrence, Fewer tags

Sagebrush recovery analyzed with a dynamic reference approach in southwestern Wyoming, USA 1985-2018

Identifying ecologically relevant reference sites is important for evaluating ecosystem recovery, but the relevance of references that are temporally static is unclear in the context of vast landscapes with disturbance and environmental contexts varying over space and time. This question is pertinent for landscapes dominated by sagebrush (Artemisia spp.) which face a suite of threats from disturbance and development but also have lengthy recovery times. Here, we applied a dynamic reference approach to studying and projecting recovery of sagebrush on former oil and gas well pads in southwestern Wyoming, USA, using over 3 decades of remote sensing data (1985–2018). We also used quantile regression to evaluate factors...

Tags: Southwestern Wyoming, USGS Science Data Catalog (SDC), USGS-EMA-LOW-PL Sagebrush Steppe, USGS-EMA-LOW-SB SMC: Greater sage-grouse, USGS-EMA-LOW-SB SMC: Native Species Restoration, All tags... USGS-EMA-LOW-SS Oil and gas, United States of America, Upper Colorado River Basin, Wildlife Biology, Wyoming, Wyoming Landscape Conservation Initiative, atmospheric and climatic processes, biota, habitat alteration and disturbance, habitats, natural resource management, remediation, soil moisture, Fewer tags

Proportion of Non-Sage-grouse Habitat Within an 5-km Radius

This map depicts the proportion of non-Sage-grouse habitat within 5km of each pixel. The map was produced using a moving window analysis on the Distribution of Non-Sage Grouse Habitat in the Conservation Assessment Area with a search radius of 5km. The product of the moving window was the mean pixel value within the window. This map has a 540m resolution.

Categories: Data; Types: Downloadable, GeoTIFF, Map Service, Raster; Tags: Alberta, Arizona, British Columbia, California, Canada, All tags... Centrocercus urophasianus, Colorado, Idaho, Montana, Nebraska, Nevada, New Mexico, North America, North Dakota, Oregon, Saskatchewan, South Dakota, USGS-EMA-LOW-SB SMC: Greater sage-grouse, United States, Utah, Washington, Wyoming, Wyoming Basins Ecoregional Assessment, biogeography, biota, bird conservation, birds, conservation, ecology, environment, habitats, land use and land cover, life sciences, maps and atlases, non-habitat, Fewer tags

Greater sage-grouse roost site probability of occurrence in the Wyoming Basins Ecoregional Assessment area.

Greater sage-grouse (Centrocercus urophasianus) have been declining both spatially and numerically throughout their range due to anthropogenic disturbance and loss and fragmentation of sagebrush (Artemisia spp.) habitats. Understanding how sage-grouse respond to these habitat alterations and disturbances, particularly the types of disturbances and extent at which they respond, is critical to designing management actions and prioritizing areas of conservation. To address these needs, we developed this spatially explicit model of the relationship between occurrence and abundance of greater sage-grouse and multi-scaled measures of vegetation, abiotic, and disturbance in the Wyoming Basins Ecoregional Assessment (WBEA)...

Tags: Centrocercus urophasianus, Colorado, Idaho, Montana, USGS-EMA-LOW-SB SMC: Greater sage-grouse, All tags... United States, Utah, Wyoming, Wyoming Basins Ecoregional Assessment, biogeography, biota, birds, conservation, environment, life sciences, probability of occurrence, Fewer tags

Greater sage-grouse general use (high abundance) probability of occurrence

Greater sage-grouse (Centrocercus urophasianus) have been declining both spatially and numerically throughout their range due to anthropogenic disturbance and loss and fragmentation of sagebrush (Artemisia spp.) habitats. Understanding how sage-grouse respond to these habitat alterations and disturbances, particularly the types of disturbances and extent at which they respond, is critical to designing management actions and prioritizing areas of conservation. To address these needs, we developed this spatially explicit model of the relationship between occurrence and abundance of greater sage-grouse and multi-scaled measures of vegetation, abiotic, and disturbance in the Wyoming Basins Ecoregional Assessment (WBEA)...

Tags: Centrocercus urophasianus, Colorado, Idaho, Montana, USGS-EMA-LOW-SB SMC: Greater sage-grouse, All tags... United States, Utah, Wyoming, Wyoming Basins Ecoregional Assessment, biogeography, biota, birds, conservation, environment, life sciences, probability of occurrence, Fewer tags