AndreaBozzo/ceres-open-data-index huggingface dataset:
Highlands Conservation Act Grant Program Projects

This dataset depicts the land conservation projects completed under the Highlands Conservation Act, and will be synthesized with other agency datasets in the Highlands Conservation Act web mapping applications hosted on the US Fish and Wildlife Service's Highlands Conservation Act website ([https://www.fws.gov/program/highlands-conservation-act-grant]). More information about the Highlands Conservation Act can be found on the website listed in the previous sentence, or here: [https://www.govinfo.gov/app/details/PLAW-108publ421]. Scale:These points are intended to represent the general location of land conservation projects within the Highlands region, and are not intended to accurately depict the exact boundary or center point of a property at any scale. Accuracy: This properties are represented as points. Points are generally taken from near the center of the property but are not intended to represent the true center point of the property. Source: This dataset comes from the Office of Conservation Investment in the US Fish and Wildlife Service Northeast Region.
Midwest Conservation Blueprint 2026

Description The Midwest Conservation Blueprint serves as an invitation to all those in the Midwest to better coordinate voluntary conservation actions and investments across the region by focusing and aligning conservation work across jurisdictions, attracting and directing funding sources for conservation, and connecting with conservation partners and opening the door to all audiences. Pixels of the Blueprint can take the following values: * Highest Conservation Priority (covers roughly 10% of the Blueprint area, 100-90th percentile) * High Conservation Priority (covers roughly 15% of the Blueprint area, 90-75th percentile) * Medium Conservation Priority (covers roughly 20% of the Blueprint area, 75-55th percentile) * Connections Between Priority Areas (covers roughly 5% of the Blueprint area, 55-50th percentile). These pixels represent connections between prioritized areas (Highest, High, and Medium Conservation Priority pixels) that cover the shortest distance possible, routing through the highest pixels values of unprioritized areas possible. * Priority for Conservation (covers roughly 50% of the Blueprint area, bottom 50th percentile) Development The Blueprint originates from over 20 datasets corresponding to targetable, important features that represent at least one ecological or societal priority on the landscape. To create the Blueprint, we use the prioritization software Zonation v5 to identify core priority areas. Additionally, we use Linkage Mapper to identify important areas for connectivity between core areas. The Midwest Conservation Blueprint is a living map and evolves annually driven by improvements to our underlying science and knowledge, our growing understanding of on-the-ground conditions, and input from relevant authorities and actors on the landscape. Landscape-scale planning products cannot, and are not designed to, replace local knowledge or to supersede decision-making authorities. However, by synthesizing existing spatial data and planning at a broader scale, the Midwest Conservation Blueprint documents where there are shared priorities, and thus opportunities for collaboration, across the landscape. For full mapping details, please refer to the [Midwest Conservation Blueprint Development Process]. For a complete download of all Blueprint input and output data, visit the [Midwest Conservation Blueprint 2026 ScienceBase page].
05012019 SARP AOP Stream Crossing Survey Protocol

This is the feature service linked to the survey123 survey used by SARP and partners to assess road stream crossings for aquatic organism passage within inland waters (non-tidal). This survey protocol and the associated fields of this service was developed by the North Atlantic Aquatic Connectivity Collaborative (NAACC) and adapted for use in the Southeastern United States by SARP. The data collected within this form is used in SARP's Aquatic Barrier Prioritization Tool (https://connectivity.sarpdata.com). Partners across political boundaries have trained others and used this protocol since 2015. Manual and paper form available at [this link]. This data layer can be used to better understand the specific information associated with fish passage including photos for points surveyed
VIEW_ACJV Coastal Marsh Project Database

This map shows the locations of the Atlantic Coast Joint Venture (ACJV) project database, which catalogs salt marsh restoration, management, and enhancement projects along the coast. The projects support salt marsh conservation, including efforts specifically targeting the ACJV flagship species: Saltmarsh Sparrow, Black Rail, and American Black Duck. For more information, please visit: [https://acjv.org/tools-and-data/] The urgent need for coordinated attention and our shared responsibility for coastal marsh conservation prompted the ACJV Management Board to approve a strategic focus on coastal marsh habitat carried out through the lens of our three flagship species: American Black Duck, Black Rail, and Saltmarsh Sparrow (link). ACJV partners are developing a comprehensive conservation planning framework to address the needs of these three species and the ecosystems upon which they depend.
Delaware Watershed National Fish and Wildlife Foundation Grants, 2025, Northeast U.S.

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 2025 that will use the collective $12.5 million available through the fund, combined with $17 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, 2021, Northeast U.S.

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 32 projects that will use the collective $9.5 million available through the fund, combined with $12 million in matching funds, to move the needle in areas that are critical to the long-term health of the watershed. In 2021, we prioritized funding projects that address racial and economic disparities in benefits from and access to nature to help remove those kinds of barriers. As a result, 47 percent of the 2021 projects will impact a community in which residents have been denied access to nature and natural resources in the past.
ME_Dams_WMA_Only

The Maine Dams dataset, maintained by the Maine Department of Environmental Protection (DEP) is a comprehensive spatial and tabular database of dams, levees, impoundments, and barriers impacting Maine’s lakes, streams, and rivers. It includes both current and historical facilities. Spatial and tabular data will be updated on an ongoing basis. The Maine DEP Dams layers were created from various sources, including a historical dams dataset based on the Inventory of Dams on Maine Waterways (1973), the Maine Emergency Management Agency (MEMA) dams datasets, the Maine Stream Habitat Viewer (MSHV) dataset, and others. ID fields were created and maintained in order to cross-reference the DEP dataset with the National Inventory of Dams (NID), MEMA, Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC) Projects. Additional fields have been added to indicate the status (present, removed, breached, etc.), the presence and types of fishways, and the FERC licensing status of dams.
FWS_R7_Realty_GeoPDF_Map_Indexes_Feature_Layer

This feature service shows the index grid that is used as the basis for an automated map series covering the National Wildlife Refuges in Alaska. The grid is comprised of a series of tiles, each of which is 25 miles east/west by 25 miles north/south (four townships north/south by 4 ranges east/west). Each tile in the index grid shows the 1:30,000 scale map extents for 604 maps covering all 16 of the National Wildlife Refuges within the State of Alaska. Each of the 604 maps is in the geoPDF format, which allows the maps to be loaded into a GPS-enabled tablet or smartphone for various purposes such as navigation, route planning, data collection, refuge management, etc.
CED_WildTrout_Indexes

CED Wild Trout index layers to support the CED wild trout module. Hosted feature layer includes 5 layers that support database organization, mapping, summarizations and reporting. 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. In recognition of the need to conserve healthy wild trout habitat 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 2.0.0 (CED). The purpose of the CED is to efficiently capture the unprecedented level of conservation plans and actions being implemented throughout wild trout habitat and designed to capture actions. 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.
Sustainable, Working Lands (Midwest Conservation Blueprint 2026 Indicator)

Important Note: The public version of this indicator that you are seeing here and available for download contains only conservation easements publicly viewable through the National Conservation Easement Database. Through a Memorandum of Understanding with the USDA, we included Conservation Reserve Program (CRP) polygons as additional inputs in the blueprint prioritization, but are unable to publicly share that data. Definition This indicator represents the ability of land to economically support human communities while also providing conservation benefits within the Midwest Landscape. It prioritizes areas based on the locations of conservation easements. Pixels can take the following values: * 1 – Closed Access or Unknown Access conservation easement * NoData – Open Access or Restricted Access easements, or not a conservation easement Selection This indicator was chosen as a targetable, important feature of the MLI goals that will be used to track conditions over time and prioritize areas for conservation. Indicators were defined through elicitation and prioritization exercises with federal and state participants. Criteria for the indicators includes 1) actionable, 2) measurable, 3) relevant to multiple groups across the region, and/or 4) representative of other social and/or environmental values. Input Data & Mapping Steps This indicator originates from the National Conservation Easement Database. To create this layer, MLI partners, members, and staff completed the following mapping steps: projected all input data to NAD83 (2011) UTM Zone 15N, converted the conservation easement polygons into a 30m raster, and reclassified the raster to a binary with the following values: 1 – Closed Access or Unknown Access conservation easement, NoData – Open Access or Restricted Access easements, or not a conservation easement. Finally, we removed highly altered areas using our Highly Altered Areas mask. For full mapping details, please refer to the [Midwest Conservation Blueprint Development Process]. For a complete download of all Blueprint input and output data, visit the [Midwest Conservation Blueprint 2026 Data Download.]
Local Economic Vitality - Timber (Midwest Conservation Blueprint 2026 Indicator)

Definition This indicator identifies the economic support of local economies from natural resources or associated activities (e.g. grazing, timber, pollination, outdoor recreation, and fisheries). It prioritizes areas based on the total value economic value of timber returns within each Midwest county. Pixels can take the following values: * 1 – Lowest timber return value * 2 – Low timber return value * 3 – Medium timber return value * 4 – High timber return value * 5 – Highest timber return value Selection This indicator was chosen as a targetable, important feature of the MLI goals that will be used to track conditions over time and prioritize areas for conservation. Indicators were defined through elicitation and prioritization exercises with federal and state participants. Criteria for the indicators includes 1) actionable, 2) measurable, 3) relevant to multiple groups across the region, and/or 4) representative of other social and/or environmental values. Input Data & Mapping Steps This indicator originates from the US Census Bureau USA County Boundaries, Cavender-Bares et al. 2022, the National Land Cover Database (NLCD), and the Protected Areas Database (PAD-US). To create this layer, MLI partners, members, and staff completed the following mapping steps: projected all input data to NAD83 (2011) UTM Zone 15N, summed all tree species rows by county, joined county timber values with county boundaries, converted the polygons to a 30m raster based on timber value, removed all non-forest pixels, removed all protected areas with a GAP Status = 1, and classified the resulting raster into the following values: 1 – Lowest timber return value, 2 – Low timber return value, 3 – Medium timber return value, 4 – High timber return value, and 5 – Highest timber return value. Finally, we removed highly altered areas using our Highly Altered Areas mask. For full mapping details, please refer to the [Midwest Conservation Blueprint Development Process]. For a complete download of all Blueprint input and output data, visit the [Midwest Conservation Blueprint 2026 Data Download.]
Local Economic Vitality - Grazing (Midwest Conservation Blueprint 2026 Indicator)

Definition This indicator identifies the economic support of local economies from natural resources or associated activities (e.g. grazing, timber, pollination, outdoor recreation, and fisheries). It prioritizes the value of grazing areas based on the five-year average pasture rental rate of Midwest counties. Pixels can take the following values: * 1 – Lowest county grazing value * 2 – Low county grazing value * 3 – Medium county grazing value * 4 – High county grazing value * 5 – Highest county grazing value Selection This indicator was chosen as a targetable, important feature of the MLI goals that will be used to track conditions over time and prioritize areas for conservation. Indicators were defined through elicitation and prioritization exercises with federal and state participants. Criteria for the indicators includes 1) actionable, 2) measurable, 3) relevant to multiple groups across the region, and/or 4) representative of other social and/or environmental values. Input Data & Mapping Steps This indicator originates from the US Census Bureau USA County Boundaries, USDA National Agricultural Statistics Service, and the Midwest Conservation Blueprint Grasslands Indicator. To create this layer, MLI partners, members, and staff completed the following mapping steps: projected all input data to NAD83 (2011) UTM Zone 15N, calculated the 5-year average grazing value for each county, joined the grazing value to county boundaries, converted counties to a 30m raster, extracted only grassland pixels, and reclassified the resulting layer into the following values: 1 – Lowest county grazing value, 2 – Low county grazing value, 3 – Medium county grazing value, 4 – High county grazing value, and 5 – Highest county grazing value. Finally, we removed highly altered areas using our Highly Altered Areas mask. For full mapping details, please refer to the [Midwest Conservation Blueprint Development Process]. For a complete download of all Blueprint input and output data, visit the [Midwest Conservation Blueprint 2026 Data Download.]
Local Economic Vitality - Pollination (Midwest Conservation Blueprint 2026 Indicator)

Definition This indicator identifies the economic support of local economies from natural resources or associated activities (e.g. grazing, timber, pollination, outdoor recreation, and fisheries). It prioritizes areas based on the presence of pollinator habitat and the economic value of insect pollination on agricultural crops within Midwest counties. Pixels can take the following values: * 1 – Lowest pollination value * 2 – Low pollination value * 3 – Medium pollination value * 4 – High pollination value * 5 – Highest pollination value Selection This indicator was chosen as a targetable, important feature of the MLI goals that will be used to track conditions over time and prioritize areas for conservation. Indicators were defined through elicitation and prioritization exercises with federal and state participants. Criteria for the indicators includes 1) actionable, 2) measurable, 3) relevant to multiple groups across the region, and/or 4) representative of other social and/or environmental values. Input Data & Mapping Steps This indicator originates from the US Census Bureau USA County Boundaries, Jordan et al. 2021, Koh et al. 2016, and the USDA Cropland Data Layer (CDL). To create this layer, MLI partners, members, and staff completed the following mapping steps: projected all input data to NAD83 (2011) UTM Zone 15N, selected pollinator habitat types, and joined pollinator habitat types to the CDL to create a binary layer of pollinator habitat. Next, we joined economic pollination data to county boundaries, and converted the county polygons to a raster based on the value of pollination. We extracted pollinator habitat from the pollination value raster using the pollinator habitat raster, then reclassified the resulting raster into the following values:1 – Lowest pollination value, 2 – Low pollination value, 3 – Medium pollination value, 4 – High pollination value, and 5 – Highest pollination value. Finally, we removed highly altered areas using our Highly Altered Areas mask. For full mapping details, please refer to the [Midwest Conservation Blueprint Development Process]. For a complete download of all Blueprint input and output data, visit the [Midwest Conservation Blueprint 2026 Data Download.]
Public Recreation Access (Midwest Conservation Blueprint 2026 Indicator)

Definition This indicator represents the ability to enjoy outdoor spaces (e.g. green spaces, wilderness areas, beaches/waters) for recreation and health purposes within the Midwest Landscape. It prioritizes areas based on locations of current public recreation sites. Pixels can take the following values: * 1 – Public recreation area, not a natural asset * 2 – Public recreation area, natural assets Selection This indicator was chosen as a targetable, important feature of the MLI goals that will be used to track conditions over time and prioritize areas for conservation. Indicators were defined through elicitation and prioritization exercises with federal and state participants. Criteria for the indicators includes 1) actionable, 2) measurable, 3) relevant to multiple groups across the region, and/or 4) representative of other social and/or environmental values. Input Data & Mapping Steps This indicator originates from the Protected Areas Database and Open Street Map roads. To create this layer, MLI partners, members, and staff completed the following mapping steps: projected all input data to NAD83 (2011) UTM Zone 15N, selected current Open Access and Restricted Access public recreation areas from the Protected Areas Database, selected non-sidewalk walking trails from Open Street Map, combined data into a single layer and converted it to a 30m raster, and emphasized natural assets within recreation sites, resulting in a raster with the following values: 1 – Public recreation area, not a natural asset, and 2 – Public recreation area, natural assets. Finally, we removed highly altered areas using our Highly Altered Areas Mask. For full mapping details, please refer to the [Midwest Conservation Blueprint Development Process]. For a complete download of all Blueprint input and output data, visit the [Midwest Conservation Blueprint 2026 Data Download.]
Hazard & Disaster Protection - Social Vulnerability Index (Midwest Conservation Blueprint 2026 Indicator)

Definition This indicator represents the protection of communities vulnerable to impacts of hazards and other community-level stressors, which can include natural disasters (e.g. flooding, wildfire, etc.) or human-caused pollution. It prioritizes areas of social vulnerability based on environmental and socioeconomic burdens. Pixels can take the following values: * 1 – Moderately vulnerable census tract, not a natural asset * 2 – Moderately vulnerable census tract, natural asset * 3 – Highly vulnerable census tract, not a natural asset * 4 – Highly vulnerable census tract, natural asset Selection This indicator was chosen as a targetable, important feature of the MLI goals that will be used to track conditions over time and prioritize areas for conservation. Indicators were defined through elicitation and prioritization exercises with federal and state participants. Criteria for the indicators includes 1) actionable, 2) measurable, 3) relevant to multiple groups across the region, and/or 4) representative of other social and/or environmental values. Input Data & Mapping Steps This indicator originates from the CDC Social Vulnerability Index. To create this layer, MLI partners, members, and staff completed the following mapping steps: projected all input data to NAD83 (2011) UTM Zone 15N, classified the Social Vulnerability tracts as moderate or high vulnerability, and emphasized natural assets within the most vulnerable tracts for a raster with the following values: 1 – Most vulnerable census tracts, not a natural asset, 2 – Most vulnerable census tracts, natural assets. Finally, we removed highly altered areas using our Highly Altered Areas Mask. For full mapping details, please refer to the [Midwest Conservation Blueprint Development Process]. For a complete download of all Blueprint input and output data, visit the [Midwest Conservation Blueprint 2026 Data Download.]