AndreaBozzo/ceres-open-data-index huggingface dataset:
Migratory Bird Hunt Area

This layer includes information on areas open to migratory bird hunting within Edwin B. Forsythe NWR, spanning from Brick TWP, Lacey TWP, Barnegat TWP, Stafford TWP, Eagleswood TWP, Little Egg Harbor TWP, and Galloway TWP. Migratory bird hunt areas are split into 2 categories: migratory bird hunt areas open to hunting (shown in blue), and the Goose Area, which is only open when needed for population management (shown in purple). The Goose Area mainly spans the marshes adjacent to and surrounding Wildlife Drive at E.B. Forsythe's headquarters. This layer is intended to guide migratory bird hunters who utilize the interactive map for navigating while hunting refuge lands.
FWS ACJV NAWCA_statesplit_Aug2020

The North American Wetlands Conservation Act (NAWCA) is a U.S. Fish & Wildlife Service (USFWS) grant program that provides matching funds to organized partnerships to protect, restore, and enhance lands that benefit wetland-associated migratory birds and other wildlife. By protecting and restoring wetlands and uplands, NAWCA supports intact, functioning ecosystems, which provide many services to society such as clean drinking water and flood protection. These direct economic benefits support multi-billion dollar industries, including tourism, commercial fisheries, forestry, and agriculture. Also, many NAWCA projects provide public access and support important traditions such as hunting, fishing, birdwatching, family farming, and cattle ranching https://acjv.org/funding/the-north-american-wetlands-conservation-act/ The NAWCA program funds projects in the United States, Canada, and Mexico through competitive grants. Grant requests must be matched by partner contributions at least a 1-to-1 ratio. In the past two decades, NAWCA has provided $1.4 billion in grants to fund 2,644 projects in the United States. More than 5,600 partners have contributed another $3 billion in matching funds to conserve 33.4 million acres of habitat. In the ACJV, partners have a demonstrated success in receiving NAWCA funding. Since 1991, ACJV staff have worked with over 500 partners to protect, restore, or enhance over 2 million acres of priority habitats. Partners have received over $228 million dollars in grants which have been matched by $1.3 billion in matching funds. These grants represent almost 1/3 of the grants awarded in the United States!
Refuge Trails

A complete list of all trails available for public use on Edwin B. Forsythe NWR. Descriptions for trails can be found below: Leeds Eco-Trail: A scenic .5-mile two-pronged trail through salt marsh and woodlands offers visitors a chance to view “life on the edge” of these two interesting and diverse habitats. Akers Woodland Trail: A 0.25-mile easy walking path through native woodlands provides many seasonal opportunities to see migrating warblers. Jen's Trail: A 0.75-mile loop offers a gradual ascent to 40 feet above sea level which will provide you with great views of the refuge and colorful forest birds. Bristow Trail: This 2.2-mile trail through a variety of upland habitats is an outstanding hike to view migratory songbirds. By returning along the Wildlife Drive, you can choose different loop options such as a 3.6-mile loop from Jen's trail or a 5-mile loop from refuge headquarters. Eno's Pond: A 1-mile self-guided nature trail loops its way through pine barrens to observation decks and a wildlife blind. The trail is a partnership between Ocean County Parks and Recreation and Forsythe refuge. A 0.5-mile portion of the trail on the county side, is handicapped accessible. deCamp Wildlife Trail: The trailhead for this 3.4-mile roundtrip hike is located at the junction of Mantoloking and Adamston Roads in Brick Township. The trail passes through tranquil woodlands and ends at a saltmarsh teeming with life. The first 1,700 feet of trail has interpretive signs, benches, and a firm surface.
radar_sites

"This is a point feature collating data and location information for 49 radar sites (27 spring and 22 fall) around the Great Lakes collected by the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service's radar team. See Supplementry Information for more details. The purpose of this dataset is to provide a information in aerial migration across the Upper Midwest Great Lakes region on a site-by-site basis. This dataset is be used to build other predictive layers which can be used to identify general areas of greater and lesser airspace use by birds and bats. In addition, this dataset also provides information on directional movement of birds and bats as they migrate through the basin, allowing to the identification of lake crossing locations as well as areas where migrants avoid crossing the lakes. "
Wildlife Drive

The most popular place to view wildlife on the refuge is the Wildlife Drive. This 8-mile, one-way, unpaved road leads you through wetlands and woodlands. Look for spectacular concentrations of migratory water birds in spring and fall, as they stop and linger in refuge habitats managed to meet their needs. Two observation towers and the accessible Experimental Pool Overlook are equipped with spotting scopes. Bring water if you are walking or bicycling. The speed limit for Wildlife Drive is 15 mph.
Ocean County Natural Lands

This layer displays lands owned by Ocean County Natural Lands, in Ocean County, NJ. This layer is included in Edwin B. Forsythe's Interactive Map in an effort to guide visitors to public lands adjacent to the Refuge with similar public use opportunities like hunting areas. This layers specifically allows hunters to better visualize which county and refuge lands they can hunt in and between, under the assumption they have all necessary hunt permits to hunt on state and refuge lands. Hunters are responsible for determining whether they are hunting within hunt zone boundaries, and this layer allow hunters to better navigate and stay within these boundaries.
NJ Wildlife Management Areas

This layer displays the bounds of NJ Wildlife Management Areas adjacent to refuge lands, providing information on areas that offer similar public uses (like hunt areas). This layer includes the nearby Port Republic WMA, Wharton State Forest, Swan Bay WMA, Stafford Forge WMA, and Great Bay Boulevard WMA. This layer was included on the Edwin B. Forsythe Interactive Map with the intention of being used by hunters to better navigate within and between refuge and state lands that are open to hunting, under the assumption that hunters have obtained all necessary permits to hunt within state and refuge lands. Areas where NJ WMAs are found adjacent or near to refuge lands include areas in Stafford and Eagleswood TWPs.
Bass River State Forest

Layer for lands owned by Bass River State Forest. This layer is included in Edwin B. Forsythe's Interactive Map in an effort to guide visitors on adjacent lands with similar public uses like hunting. Bass River State Forest is located adjacent to hunt areas found off Route 9 that are available to hunters with all necessary state and refuge permits. These areas include forest tracts within the Bass River TWP. Hunters may need to access available refuge hunt areas by first accessing these state lands, due to the limited access routes/roads into these areas. This layer was included in the interactive map as a means of assisting hunters with navigating within and between state and refuge lands, and to assist hunters with staying within approved hunt area boundaries.
Clean Up Photos

Locations of items that need to be cleaned up on the Thompson tract. Each photo represents an item or items that the contractor must clean up. A general summary of items include: house, barn, silo, cabin, metal, plastic, glass. There may be more items on the property that the dots to show. The contractor is still responsible for cleaning up other items as they are discovered. Project location is sections 33 & 34, Solum Township (T127N, R36W) and sections 3 & 4, Urness Township Douglas County, Minnesota. Directions: The property is located approximately 4.5 miles east of Hoffman, MN. Access to the project area is through an old driveway and several road approaches
FWs ACJV DFP Project 2018 map

Amy Almond DFP student with ACJV 2018 - diary map Map for DFP student diary. The United States Fish and Wildlife Service (Service) shall not be held liable for improper or incorrect use of the data described and/or contained herein. While the Service makes every reasonable effort to ensure the accuracy and completeness of data provided for distribution, it may not have the necessary accuracy or completeness required for every possible intended use. The Service recommends that data users consult the associated metadata record to understand the quality and possible limitations of the data. The Service creates metadata records in accordance with the standards endorsed by the Federal Geographic Data Committee.As a result of the above considerations, the Service gives no warranty, expressed or implied, as to the accuracy, reliability, or completeness of the data. It is the responsibility of the data user to use the data in a manner consistent with the limitations of geospatial data in general and these data in particular. Although these data have been processed successfully on a computer system at the Service, no warranty, expressed or implied, is made regarding the utility of the data on another system or for general or scientific purposes, nor shall the act of distribution constitute any such warranty. This applies to the use of the data both alone and in aggregate with other data and information.
Intersect_of_MPG_Recovery_Areas_and_MPG_Soils_Subspecies_28Feb18___Less_Preferred_Soil

Get to know the Threatened Mazama Pocket Gopher! This storymap provides an interactive introduction to this furry and fossorial native species to the South Sound Prairies. Support layer for the following MPG Story Map: [https://fws.maps.arcgis.com/apps/Cascade/index.html?appid=a99553093e5a45b183c18e8cf0762176] Feature layer generated from running the Overlay layers solution. To learn more about the Washington Office of the United Stated Fish and Wildlife Service (USFWS), please go to here: https://www.fws.gov/wafwo/index.cfm
FWS ACJV BLRA 30km buffers 2021

This layer identifies potential locations for development of habitat creation and/or improvement projects to benefit the Eastern Black Rail (Laterallus jamaicensis jamaicensis). Colored areas represent 30 km buffer around 3 levels of occupancy probability in tidal wetlands for the Eastern Black Rail ((blue: 0.2-0.25, pink: 0.25-0.5, and red: >0.5); Stevens et al. in prep) as well as inland detections of Black Rails in Florida (orange) that were not part of the occupancy analysis (Schwarzer, unpublished data). Although Black Rails have been known to disperse long distances, a buffer of 30km from potentially occupied areas was chosen to maximize Black Rail recruitment to newly created habitat. Incompatible land cover types within these buffers (Developed open space [low intensity, medium intensity, high intensity], unclassified, open water, forest [deciduous, evergreen, mixed], woody wetlands; National Land Cover Dataset 2019) were removed so that only land with potential for Black Rail habitat management is shown. This buffering tool is still in development, with a projected completion date of mid-2022.
EBIP_Grid

The ACJV contracted Nathan Van Schmidt to develop an irrigation planner for the Eastern Black Rail. The Eastern Black rail Irrigation Planner (EBIP) is a program developed to create and explore hypothetical irrigation scenarios to create emergent herbaceous wetlands on slopes with shallow, flowing sheets of water (upper-right picture). This document provides a comprehensive instruction manual for understanding how to use the model. EBIP is an agent-based model. For clarity, the names of agents, variables, and files will be in italics, while user interface controls will be in bold italics. The model simulates the release of single “flow”s of water (bottom-right picture). Each flow moves downhill following a 11-m resolution digital elevation model (DEM) and can spread out into other flows if there is a large enough volume of water or the slope is shallow enough. The path of the flows is complete when they hit an “exit” which are generally either the edge of the modeled landscape or a pre-existing body of water. After all flows are complete, the total volume of water that passed over each patch (i.e., raster cell) of on the modeled landscape is summed—this is the cell’s flow accumulation. Land-covers are then assigned based on the total flow accumulation. Patches with ≥13 acre-feet of flow accumulation are herbaceous wetland, while those with ≥85 acre-feet are water. Patches with insufficient flow accumulation are only irrigated, but these patches are counted as wetland fringe if they are one of the four cardinal neighbors of a patch that is herbaceous wetland. Contiguous patches of herbaceous wetland and fringe patches that are larger 0.16 ha (the minimum home range size of radio-tracked black rails in similar habitats in California) create wetlands, which the model represents as centroids. Finally, a multi-season occupancy model simulates black rail metapopulation colonization and extinction dynamics over the set of wetlands. The flows of water, wetland habitats, and black rail occupancy estimated by EBIP are designed to be planning tools and are not guarantees of the real effects of releasing water or black rail colonization probability from any given point. 1.2
SageSHCBaseLayers

Hosted feature layer of Sage SHC Base Layers -The Sagebrush Biome Range Extent, as Derived from Classified Landsat Imagery and -Greater Sage-Grouse 2015 USFWS Status Review PACs Click on each layer of the Hosted Feature Layer for full metadata Sagebrush Biome Range Extent file-based data for download: [https://www.sciencebase.gov/catalog/item/5ccb4a64e4b09b8c0b7808a6] Greater Sage-Grouse 2015 USFWS Status Review PACs file-based data for download: [https://www.sciencebase.gov/catalog/item/56f96d88e4b0a6037df066a3]
Trails_MinnesotaValley_NWR

Map of Minnesota Valley National Wildlife Refuge's trails. Map of Minnesota Valley National Wildlife Refuge's trails - uploaded as part of another storymap. Minnesota Valley National Wildlife Refuge offers close to 50 miles of trails along the Minnesota River from Bloomington to Henderson. Learn more about the trails and current conditions below. [Click here] to view an interactive map. Or, download one of the following trail maps to print or save to your device. Visit our units like Black Dog: Open season: Open year round - walking spring to fall, snowshoeing, cross-country skiing and fat tire biking in the winter. This trail is open to cycling. Length: 1.5 miles one way. Location of trail: Louisville Swamp Unit, Jordan. Natural surface. Middle Road passes through areas of marsh, crosses a large stream, and passes the junction with the Mazomani Trail South, then wanders through restored prairie and forest until it meets the State Trail junction heading south. This trail experiences seasonal flooding. Trailhead address: 3801 W 145th St, Shakopee, MN 55379.
Minnesota Valley Units

Minnesota Valley NWR units. Minnesota Valley National Wildlife Refuge offers close to 50 miles of trails along the Minnesota River from Bloomington to Henderson. Learn more about the trails and current conditions below. Click here to view an interactive map. Or, download one of the following trail maps to print or save to your device. Visit our units like Black Dog: Open season: Open year round - walking spring to fall, snowshoeing, cross-country skiing and fat tire biking in the winter. This trail is open to cycling. Length: 1.5 miles one way. Location of trail: Louisville Swamp Unit, Jordan. Natural surface. Middle Road passes through areas of marsh, crosses a large stream, and passes the junction with the Mazomani Trail South, then wanders through restored prairie and forest until it meets the State Trail junction heading south. This trail experiences seasonal flooding. Trailhead address: 3801 W 145th St, Shakopee, MN 55379.
FWS_R5_FR_LGLFWCO_EDM_Crayfish_Surveillance_PublicView

Crayfish surveys are a component of the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Services (USFWS) Lower Great Lakes Fish and Wildlife Conservation Office (LGLFWCO) Aquatic Invasive Species (AIS) Early Detection and Monitoring (EDM) program. Crayfish surveys were included in the EDM program starting in 2017 with the goal of detecting novel AIS crayfish species by sampling a diversity of habitats with a wide array of gear types. Surveys occurred annually from 2017 - present. Sampling focuses on harbors, rivers, and streams of the lower Great Lakes (Erie and Ontario) as determined by a [risk-based prioritization framework for AIS in the Great Lakes]. Crayfish are collected using a variety of sampling gears with the most utilized including: crayfish traps and crayfish seines. Crayfish by-catch is common in other invertebrate and fish sampling gears and can be determined within the dataset by gear type. The sampling season is typically between July and October - not all locations are sampled on a similar temporal scale, particularly those locations on the fringes of the programs surveillance range. Sampling strategies are analyzed and designed to capture the maximum species richness at locations with the assumption that capturing an abundance of species, including singletons and doubletons, could lead to detecting rare novel AIS species if present. All crayfish collected are counted and identified to species in the field using taxonomic keys. If an identification cannot be made in the field, the specimen is preserved using 95% ethanol (EtOH) and identifications are made in the laboratory taxonomically. Each individual from each species is measured (total length; mm) and sexed (male or female) in the field. Any significant AIS detections are reported to partners following an internal communications protocol. The information within this dataset is geospatial in nature and documents crayfish sampling events. Both abiotic and biotic data is collected for each individual sampling event. It is possible that over time, the tools, gears, and instruments used to collect information have changed or been modified. The EDM program is adaptive in nature and standardization, although important for comparisons, is not the primary intention of this AIS sampling strategy. Therefore, in some instances, the general statements made above regarding sample procedures may not apply. Also, identifying aquatic invertebrates such as crayfish is difficult - especially when tasked with discovering novel AIS with limited support from reference materials (keys, voucher specimens, etc.). Because of this, some specimens collected cannot be assigned to the species level. Furthermore, due to these difficulties, identifications within this data set may be inaccurate and those records will remain within this data set unless otherwise detected and removed.
MInnesota Valley Units

Minnesota Valley NWR units. Minnesota Valley National Wildlife Refuge offers close to 50 miles of trails along the Minnesota River from Bloomington to Henderson. Learn more about the trails and current conditions below. Click here to view an interactive map. Or, download one of the following trail maps to print or save to your device. Visit our units like Black Dog: Open season: Open year round - walking spring to fall, snowshoeing, cross-country skiing and fat tire biking in the winter. This trail is open to cycling. Length: 1.5 miles one way. Location of trail: Louisville Swamp Unit, Jordan. Natural surface. Middle Road passes through areas of marsh, crosses a large stream, and passes the junction with the Mazomani Trail South, then wanders through restored prairie and forest until it meets the State Trail junction heading south. This trail experiences seasonal flooding. Trailhead address: 3801 W 145th St, Shakopee, MN 55379.
FWS R5 NEFO Maine coast conserved lands - Penobscot watershed

This layer was used in an educational [StoryMap] created by US Fish and Wildlife Service and Natural Resource Damage Assessment and Restoration Program in collaboration with students at William and Mary. Layer created by Kathryn Lee, William & Mary collaborator to USFWS. The map shows conserved lands, as well as boat launches and wildlife recreation areas in the Penobscot Watershed in Maine. The goal is to show how the restoration efforts in the Penobscot River Watershed create healthier ecosystems, which helps create better recreational opportunities and wildlife viewing. Data from original dataset: [Maine Conserved Lands] courtesy of [State of Maine GeoLibrary]. For more information contact Anne Condon, anne_condon@fws.gov
Ecosystem Services Inputs NEW

◦Overview: A key principle of Landscape Conservation Design is that “Stakeholders design landscape configurations that promote resilient and sustainable social-ecological systems” (Campellone et al, 2018). From Campellone et al: (2018): “A beneficial aspect of stakeholder engagement in spatial design is the development of a deeper trust that the models used to identify priorities integrate their interests with other information and knowledge, which furthers social learning and collective agreement on resource allocation and landscape objectives” (Melillo et al., 2014). Overall, the co-development of a spatial design helps organize landscape elements while maintaining and improving stakeholder buy-in” (De Groot, Alkemade, Braat, Hein, & Willemen, 2009; Melillo et al., 2014).” ◦Analytical Question: Create a prototype landscape design (blueprint) that integrates multiple values on the landscape including wildlife conservation, forest and agriculture production, recreation, cultural and human health. The prototype will be created based upon readily available data.This analysis will be used to understand landscape-scale conservation and working landscape priorities, while incorporating other important values.The blueprint will be used to represent a sustainable landscape in the future. ◦Desired Outcome: A map or maps that represents a balance of multiple values on the landscape, with a focus on conservation and working landscape values.
Conservation Inputs for Spatial Tool

◦Overview: A key principle of Landscape Conservation Design is that “Stakeholders design landscape configurations that promote resilient and sustainable social-ecological systems” (Campellone et al, 2018). From Campellone et al: (2018): “A beneficial aspect of stakeholder engagement in spatial design is the development of a deeper trust that the models used to identify priorities integrate their interests with other information and knowledge, which furthers social learning and collective agreement on resource allocation and landscape objectives” (Melillo et al., 2014). Overall, the co-development of a spatial design helps organize landscape elements while maintaining and improving stakeholder buy-in” (De Groot, Alkemade, Braat, Hein, & Willemen, 2009; Melillo et al., 2014).” ◦Analytical Question: Create a prototype landscape design (blueprint) that integrates multiple values on the landscape including wildlife conservation, forest and agriculture production, recreation, cultural and human health. The prototype will be created based upon readily available data.This analysis will be used to understand landscape-scale conservation and working landscape priorities, while incorporating other important values.The blueprint will be used to represent a sustainable landscape in the future. ◦Desired Outcome: A map or maps that represents a balance of multiple values on the landscape, with a focus on conservation and working landscape values.