AndreaBozzo/ceres-open-data-index huggingface dataset:
Connectivity Linkage Assessment Results Feature

◦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.
Delaware Watershed National Fish and Wildlife Foundation Grants, 2022, FWS North Atlantic-Appalachian Region

In 2018, the National Fish and Wildlife Foundation launched the Delaware Watershed Conservation Fund in partnership with the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service. The fund represents the first step in implementing a strategy developed by partners with guidance from the Service to focus conservation in four key areas: clean water, habitat, recreation, and flow management. This map displays projects that have been awarded funding to date to help conserve and connect lands and waterways that support native fish, wildlife, and plants, and contribute to the vitality of the communities in the watershed. This dataset represents 36 projects that will use the collective $14 million available through the fund to move the needle in areas that are critical to the long-term health of the watershed. Included in this total is $4.7 million in Bipartisan Infrastructure Law funds to support innovative projects that use nature-based infrastructure to restore the watershed. In 2022, we prioritized funding projects that support high-performing science and innovation concepts, build capacity among grantees and partners, and implement nature-based to improve fish and wildlife habitat and connect people with nature in the Delaware River watershed.
Continental Divide-Pacific/Atlantic

This is the North American Pacific/Atlantic continental divide. Rivers to the west of the divide flow into the Pacific Ocean and rivers to the east flow into the Gulf of Mexico, the Atlantic Ocean and some areas flow north into Hudson Bay and the Arctic Ocean. This is a copy of the layer that is published to ArcGIS Online at the following URL: https://services4.arcgis.com/jzlMsmscSx37zEbh/arcgis/rest/services/Archive_6/FeatureServer
Delaware Watershed National Fish and Wildlife Foundation Grants, 2020, FWS Northeast Region

In 2018, the National Fish and Wildlife Foundation launched the Delaware Watershed Conservation Fund in partnership with the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service. The fund represents the first step in implementing a strategy developed by partners with guidance from the Service to focus conservation in four key areas: clean water, habitat, recreation, and flow management. This map displays projects that have been awarded funding to date to help conserve and connect lands and waterways that support native fish, wildlife, and plants, and contribute to the vitality of the communities in the watershed. This dataset represents the 30 projects awarded funding from the Delaware Watershed Conservation Fund in 2020 that will use the collective $8 million available through the fund, combined with $22 million in matching funds, to enhance water quality, water management, wildlife habitat, and recreational access across the region.
Delaware Watershed National Fish and  Wildlife Foundation Grants 2018, FWS Northeast Region

In 2018, the National Fish and Wildlife Foundation launched the Delaware Watershed Conservation Fund in partnership with the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service. The fund represents the first step in implementing a strategy developed by partners with guidance from the Service to focus conservation in four key areas: clean water, habitat, recreation, and flow management. This map displays projects that have been awarded funding to date to help conserve and connect lands and waterways that support native fish, wildlife, and plants, and contribute to the vitality of the communities in the watershed. This dataset represents the 25 projects awarded funding from the Delaware Watershed Conservation Fund in 2018. These projects will collectively restore 12 miles of riparian habitat and 64 miles of stream habitat, conserve and enhance 626 acres of wetland habitat, restore 549 acres of floodplain, improve 1,406 acres of forest habitat, and open 1,794 acres for public access.
FWS_R7_Realty_Koniag_Subsurface_Estate_within_APB

The Alaska Native Claims Settlement Act (ANCSA) settled native land claims in Alaska. It established village and regional native corporations to which the surface estate was granted to village corporations and the subsurface estate was granted to regional corporations. Koniag Incorporated, an ANCSA regional corporation, has been granted various surface and subsurface lands, primarily on Kodiak Island and the Alaska Peninsula. This feature class shows all Koniag Inc. subsurface estate lands within Alaska Peninsula NWR and Becharof NWR in Alaska. It does not show any Koniag lands outside of Alaska Peninsula NWR and Becharof NWR. Five feature classes are included in this dataset: * Koniag Subsurface Estate (generalized) : this is a summary of the detailed feature class * Koniag Subsurface Estate (detailed) : all attributes, not generalized * Koniag Subsurface Selected (COGSGrM) : coal, oil, gas, sand, gravel, minerals selected by Koniag Inc. * Koniag Subsurface Conveyed (COGSGrM) : coal, oil, gas, sand, gravel, minerals patented to Koniag Inc. * Koniag Subsurface Conveyed (OGSGM) : oil, gas, sand, gravel, patented to Koniag Inc.
FWS_R7_Realty_Koniag_Surface_Estate_within_APB

The Alaska Native Claims Settlement Act (ANCSA) settled native land claims in Alaska. It established village and regional native corporations to which the surface estate was granted to village corporations and the subsurface estate was granted to regional corporations. Koniag Incorporated, an ANCSA regional corporation, has been granted various surface and subsurface lands, primarily on Kodiak Island and the Alaska Peninsula. This feature class shows all Koniag Inc. surface estate lands within Alaska Peninsula NWR and Becharof NWR in Alaska. It does not show any Koniag lands outside of Alaska Peninsula NWR and Becharof NWR. Two feature classes are included in this dataset: * Koniag Surface Estate (generalized) : this is a summary of the detailed feature class * Koniag Surface Estate (detailed) : all attributes, not generalized
SALS_Priority_Marshes_within5mi_USACEprojects2023

This is a subset of the priority marshes - these marshes are within 5 mi of USCAE projects as per the USACE dredge schedule January 2023. This data is intended to provide those interested in salt marsh and Saltmarsh Sparrow conservation with information that will help with conservation implementation. It identifies areas containing salt marsh that are good candidates for restoration, enhancement, and/or conservation to provide persistent high-quality Saltmarsh Sparrow nesting habitat in the next 10 years in addition to long-term salt marsh resilience. High-quality habitat for the Saltmarsh Sparrow includes high marsh patches with the lowest flooding frequency that provide a window of at least 24 days with limited flooding, and are characterized by extensive and dense Spartina patens vegetation with a deep, well-developed thatch layer. Short-form S. alterniflora, Distichlis spicata, and Juncus gerardii also comprise high marsh areas and can support Saltmarsh Sparrow nesting. The highest quality habitat is most often found in the least modified marshes, such as those without ditching, or that are downstream, or free of tidal restrictions like road crossings. Marshes are characterized as "Priority, "Reference", and "Honorable Mention". "Priority" marshes have been prioritized for ongoing restoration planning and action to support the Saltmarsh Sparrow. "Reference" marshes are less degraded and can act as reference marshes for restoration efforts in the state. Long-term preservation of these areas and the open space around them to facilitate long-term marsh migration is important, but no immediate restoration action is suggested for them. "Honorable mention" marshes were identified by the partner group as important to keep in mind and further assess for future work, but of lower priority than "Priority" marshes.
GCJV Initiative Areas

Working both collectively and independently, Gulf Coast Joint Venture partners conduct activities in support of bird conservation goals cooperatively developed by the partnership. These activities include biological planning, conservation design, and prioritization, project development and implementation, monitoring, evaluation, and applied research activities, communications and outreach, and fund-raising for projects and activities. This shapefile is a detailed version of the Gulf Coast Joint Venture (GCJV) boundary. A more generalized version is available at https://ecos.fws.gov/ServCat/Reference/Profile/81415. This dataset includes the boundaries of the GCJV Initiative Areas: Laguna Madre, Texas Mid-Coast, Chenier Plain, Mississippi River Coastal Wetlands, and Coastal Mississippi - Alabama Initiative Areas.
GCJV CGRIP Focal Areas

C-GRIP provides financial incentives to private landowners for conducting habitat treatments that address the greatest limiting factors for suitability of grassland bird habitat on their property. The Grassland Restoration Incentive Program (GRIP) was first implemented in 2013 by the Oaks and Prairies Joint Venture ([OPJV]) in the [Edwards Plateau] and the Oaks and Prairies Bird Conservation Regions (BCRs) of Texas and Oklahoma. In 2017, the GRIP was expanded to the [Tamaulipan Brushlands] BCR by the Rio Grande Joint Venture ([RGJV]). In 2018 the Gulf Coast Joint Venture implemented C-GRIP in the central section of coastal Texas. C-GRIP provides financial incentives to private landowners for conducting habitat treatments that address the greatest limiting factor(s) to provide suitable grassland bird habitat on their property. Modeled after the Natural Resource Conservation Service (NRCS) Environmental Quality Incentive Program ([EQIP]) and other similar programs, C-GRIP is a voluntary program that reimburses private landowners a set payment rate for identified practices that generally fall into the categories of brush management, prescribed burning, native grass reseeding, and prescribed grazing. This Feature Layer depicts the five focal areas used to prioritize grassland bird habitat conservation used in CGRIP.
States and Provinces Map

The purpose of this map service is to be a base for clipping to state and provincial boundaries in the CED (Conservation Efforts Database https://conservationefforts.org/) custom footprint editor. The custom footprint editor allows CED data providers to edit their spatial data submissions in a web environment.The data is a subset of the World Administrative Division dataset. World Administrative Divisions is a detailed dataset of country first level administrative boundaries which can be used at both large and small scales. It has been designed to be used as a basemap and includes a Disputed Boundaires layer that can be used to edit boundaries to fit a users needs and view of the political world. Included are attributes for name and ISO codes, along with notes identifying disputed boundaries and continent information. Particularly useful are the Land_Type and Land_Rank fields which separate polygons based on their area. These attributes are useful for rendering at different scales by providing the ability to turn off small islands which may clutter small scale views. The sagebrush ecosystem is the largest ecosystem type in the continental U.S., providing habitat for more than 350 associated fish and wildlife species. In recognition of the need to conserve a healthy sagebrush ecosystem to provide for the long-term conservation of its inhabitants, the US Fish and Wildlife Service (Service) and United States Geological Survey (USGS) developed the Conservation Efforts Database version 2.1.0 (CED). The purpose of the CED is to efficiently capture the unprecedented level of conservation plans and actions being implemented throughout the sagebrush ecosystem and designed to capture actions not only for its most famous resident, the greater sage-grouse (Centrocercus urophasianus; hereafter, sage-grouse) but for the other species that rely on sagebrush habitats. Understanding the distribution and type of conservation actions happening across the landscape will allow visualization and quantification of the extent to which threats are being addressed.The spatially explicit, web-based Conservation Efforts Database is capable of (1) allowing multiple-users to enter data from different locations, (2) uploading and storing documents, (3) linking conservation actions to one or more threats (one-to-many relationships), (4) reporting functions that would allow summaries of the conservation actions at multiple scales (e.g., management zones, populations, or priority areas for conservation), and (5) accounting for actions at multiple scales from small easements to statewide planning efforts.
R6 USFS Dam Inventory

Often times, there are many dams that exist on the landscape that are not currently inventoried by state and federal agencies. This is a layer for QAQC by USFS Region 6 forest biologists, to identify unknown dams on their landscape, as well as determine the potential social feasibility of removal of these barriers on USFS lands. Dams were generated by combining state datasets, USFS WRU dataset, NID, dam estimation using NHD, and aerial observation. The purpose of this layer is to create a comprehensive list of dams on USFS region 6 lands, to include smaller structures. All barriers QAQC'd here will be a part of SARP's larger database, and uploaded into the SARP barrier prioritization tool at https://connectivity.sarpdata.com. For more information or for help with this layer, contact Kat@southeastaquatics.net.
HD LCD boundary

Geographic boundary for the High Divide LCD in Montana and Idaho. The High Divide region located in eastern Idaho and western Montana, covers approximately 138,000 km2, contains the headwaters of the Missouri and Columbia watersheds and is vital for maintaining current and potential connectivity across privately owned lands between the Greater Yellowstone Ecosystem, the Central Idaho Wilderness, and the Crown of the Continent ecosystem. The High Divide collaborative has successfully worked to protect and sustain spawning habitat for anadromous fish from the Pacific Ocean, the region’s outstanding opportunities for outdoor recreation, and its working ranchlands in a region susceptible to entrenched, polarized views on conservation. The Landscape Conservation Design process provides a framework to continue to bring many of these seemingly opposing interests together over a common concern for the High Divide to produce a shared, long-term, strategic landscape vision that ensures people living and working in the region can take action that will be sustained by the whole community. Without it, conservation endeavors would be disjointed between interest groups, and would most likely not have the input of the local communities, ultimately leading to patchwork and thus ineffective conservation efforts.
CGRIP TX and LA Focal Areas

C-GRIP provides financial incentives to private landowners for conducting habitat treatments that address the greatest limiting factors for suitability of grassland bird habitat on their property. The Grassland Restoration Incentive Program (GRIP) was first implemented in 2013 by the Oaks and Prairies Joint Venture ([OPJV]) in the [Edwards Plateau] and the Oaks and Prairies Bird Conservation Regions (BCRs) of Texas and Oklahoma. In 2017, the GRIP was expanded to the [Tamaulipan Brushlands] BCR by the Rio Grande Joint Venture ([RGJV]). In 2018 the Gulf Coast Joint Venture implemented C-GRIP in the central section of coastal Texas. C-GRIP provides financial incentives to private landowners for conducting habitat treatments that address the greatest limiting factor(s) to provide suitable grassland bird habitat on their property. Modeled after the Natural Resource Conservation Service (NRCS) Environmental Quality Incentive Program ([EQIP]) and other similar programs, C-GRIP is a voluntary program that reimburses private landowners a set payment rate for identified practices that generally fall into the categories of brush management, prescribed burning, native grass reseeding, and prescribed grazing. This Feature Layer depicts the five focal areas used to prioritize grassland bird habitat conservation used in CGRIP.
mAMBEx_CONUS_Range_2001v1

GAP distribution models represent the areas where species are predicted to occur based on habitat associations. The distribution models represent the spatial arrangement of environments suitable for occupation by a species. In other words, a species distribution is created using a deductive model to predict areas suitable for occupation within a species range. To represent these suitable environments for this species' habitat distribution model, we used the land cover and other ancillary datasets listed here in this metadata. Details on the habitat affinities and the parameters used to model are provided in the species report in the attached files section of this record.These models can be used to assess the habitat availability across the range of the species and in combination with other data to assess the conservation status or threats to the habitat for the species.
LCT Habitat - Utah State University

This data represents remote habitat surveys that were performed throughout Nevada in order to assist in the status assessment of Lahontan cutthroat trout (*Oncorhynchus clarkii henshawi*) habitat.These surveys provide a larger scale assessment of riverscape health by utilizing high-resolution drone products. Surveys were conducted within occupied Lahontan cutthroat trout habitat, as designated by the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service. Data were collected and managed by the U.S. Geological Survey and U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, and/or affiliated field crews with support from the U.S. Geological Survey, U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service. U.S. Forest Service, and Nevada Department of Wildlife. Data are stored in a centralized database (LCT Conservation Efforts Database: https://conservationefforts.org/cutr/home/). Survey reaches were determined using a probabalistic sampling design (i.e., Generalized Random Tessellation Stratified).
3BB Map Layer

3 Billion Birds Summary Map Layer. This layer powers the exploratory tool which provides a crosswalk of continental-level U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service Birds of Conservation Concern (BCC 2021) species, Road to Recovery (R2R) class, and Species of Greatest Conservation Need (SGCN) for each state that also appear on these lists. In this layer, the priority- or tier-level of a SGCN species within any given state’s plan was not considered. If the SGCN species was a BCC and/or R2R species, it was simply noted that it matched at least one of those two criteria. Source Data: [https://www1.usgs.gov/csas/swap/ ]and [https://www1.usgs.gov/csas/swap/national_list.html] (filtered for 2015) Dashboard GIS Web Layer: [https://fws.maps.arcgis.com/home/item.html?id=ce4661f118b64b16b7296a42cbc2ba53] For question and comments, contact Matt Heller at matthew_heller@fws.gov
GCJV FY 2021 NAWCA Standard Grant Projects Feature Layer

NAWCA grants increase bird populations and wetland habitat, while supporting local economies and American traditions such as hunting, fishing, bird watching, family farming, and cattle ranching. Wetlands protected by NAWCA provide valuable benefits such as flood control, reducing coastal erosion, improving water and air quality, and recharging ground water. In the past two decades, the North American Wetlands Conservation Act has funded over 3,000 projects totaling $1.83 billion in grants. More than 6,350 partners have contributed another $3.75 billion in matching funds to affect 30 million acres of habitat. ABOUT THE GRANTS PROGRAM The NAWCA program provides matching grants to wetlands conservation projects in the United States, Canada, and Mexico. There is a Standard and a Small Grants Program. Both are competitive grants programs and require that grant requests be matched by partner contributions at no less than a 1-to-1 ratio.
NHD_Flowing_Isolated

This data represents isolated flowlines in the Roaring Fork watershed to be used in a web map showing connected wetland and deepwater habitat features from the National Wetlands Inventory (NWI) dataset and various hydrographic features from the National Hydrography Dataset (NHD). A connectivity model was used to determine isolation/connectivity using a 0, 5, & 10 meter buffer of features. The general model process steps include: NWI was used as input data (other data can be added as input e.g. NHD) to determine "seed" jurisdictional waters. Currently, “seed” jurisdictional waters was defined as all Estuarine, Lacustrine, Tidal Riverine, Lower Perennial Riverine, and Upper Perennial Riverine NWI features. Select all NWI features in the study area that are "potential connectors". Currently, “potential connectors” were defined by excluding NWI features that had drier water regimes (temporarily flooded [A], continuously saturated [B], Continuously Saturated [D] and Seasonally Flooded/Saturated [E] and all Palustrine Farmed [Pf] features). Select all the "potential connectors" that intersect the "seed" data with the customized buffer distance. Continue iterations of step 3 by using the output (“seed” + intersecting “potential connectors”) as the “seed”. Iterations repeat until the count of selected NWI features does not increase. Select all NWI features (including non-connector wetlands) that intersect the final output of step 4. All selected features are exported as "Connected NWI Features...". Invert the selection and export remaining features as "Isolated NWI Features..."