AndreaBozzo/ceres-open-data-index huggingface dataset:
WeirStreamSites

The US Fish and Wildlife Service's (USFWS) Fisheries and Aquatic Conservation (FAC) program, Northeast region obtained stream gaging data for the Northeast region from the US Geological Survey (USGS). Low-head concrete weirs were identified due to their potential threat to migratory fish species. USGS provided data from their internal Site Information Management System (SIMS), and the data was queried by USFWS to develop a list of 560 sites within the Northeast. The data includes the associated State in which the gage resides, site identification number, latitude, longitude, and description.
Spatial Analysis Interpreted Results

◦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.
Motus receiver deployments as of 4_17_23

This map shows Motus receiver deployments as of April 17, 2023. Some migratory shorebirds fly long distances. Really long distances. Shorebirds can fly from as far away as South America to the northern end of Alaska in the summer, and again during the winter. This is called the Pacific Flyway. But how do we know the paths that birds fly? How do we know where they stop, what they eat, and who their predators may be? We track them. The Motus Wildlife Tracking System is an international collaborative research network of automated radio-telemetry receiving stations. Motus, which is Latin for movement, tracks insects, birds, bats, and other animals over the landscape, using radio technology. It's just one of the tools that biologists, conservationists, and others use to monitor wildlife. In this storymap, we share how Ankeny National Wildlife Refuge and Grays Harbor National Wildlife Refuge are contributing to bird conservation through tracking--one bird at a time.
Motus tag deployments as of 4_17_23

This map shows Motus tag deployments as of April 17, 2023. Some migratory shorebirds fly long distances. Really long distances. Shorebirds can fly from as far away as South America to the northern end of Alaska in the summer, and again during the winter. This is called the Pacific Flyway. But how do we know the paths that birds fly? How do we know where they stop, what they eat, and who their predators may be? We track them. The Motus Wildlife Tracking System is an international collaborative research network of automated radio-telemetry receiving stations. Motus, which is Latin for movement, tracks insects, birds, bats, and other animals over the landscape, using radio technology. It's just one of the tools that biologists, conservationists, and others use to monitor wildlife. In this storymap, we share how Ankeny National Wildlife Refuge and Grays Harbor National Wildlife Refuge are contributing to bird conservation through tracking--one bird at a time.
Ute_Ladies_Tresses_WFL1

Ute_Ladies_Tresses_WFL1 This is a dataset representing the polygonal boundaries for Ute Ladies Tresses as understood by the United States Fish and Wildlife Service. This map product is to be used for educational purposes only and does not provide geographic information for any intent other than general background information. Any maps or geographic information is not to be used for legal purposes or boundary delineation.
Sec 6 Acquisitions 2020

The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, in conjunction with our partners, provided funding through Section 6 grants to purchase lands in San Bernardino, Riverside and San Diego Counties for conservation. These properties provide habitat and other import functions for numerous Threatened, Endangered or sensitive species. These layers included in this feature layer show the general locations of the properties that were acquired. Some locations also include a description of the property, who our partners are, cost of the property, and the habitat and/or species that will be protected. Please visit our Carlsbad Fish and Wildlife 2020 Highlights report located here - https://fws.maps.arcgis.com/apps/Cascade/index.html?appid=de3b646f2db244dc8b20b0669aff1485, where you can learn about some of the accomplishments the Carlsbad Fish and Wildlife Office had during Fiscal Year 2020.
Tricolored Bat

A layer depicting the range of the proposed endangered Tricolored bat (Perimyotis subflavus) in Tennessee. The range for the Tricolored bat in Tennessee was compiled by the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service (USFWS) from a database of occurrence records provided by various State and Federal resource agencies, and is represented using the North American Bat (NABat) Monitoring Program's 10 x 10 km (100 km) grid cell framework. The Tricolored bat range layer is publicly available to assist project proponents with early project scoping and coordination. Project proponents may use this layer to determine whether a project's footprint overlaps the Tricolored bat's range in Tennessee. For additional information regarding the Tricolored bat range or Section 7 project consultation, please visit the Project Review portal on the USFWS Tennessee Ecological Services Field Office website: [Tennessee Ecological Services Field Office] ***Please note that the database of occurrence records used to map the range of the Tricolored bat may not be all-inclusive. Records provided to USFWS are seldom based on comprehensive surveys of all potential habitat and thus do not necessarily provide conclusive evidence that a protected species is present or absent at a specific locality.
Northern Long-Eared Bat

A layer depicting the range of the endangered Northern long-eared bat (Myotis septentrionalis) in Tennessee. The range for the Northern long-eared bat in Tennessee was compiled by the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service (USFWS) from a database of occurrence records provided by various State and Federal resource agencies, and is represented using the North American Bat (NABat) Monitoring Program's 10 x 10 km (100 km) grid cell framework. The Northern long-eared bat range layer is publicly available to assist project proponents with early project scoping and coordination. Project proponents may use this layer to determine whether a project's footprint overlaps the Northern long-eared bat's range in Tennessee. For additional information regarding the Northern long-eared bat range or Section 7 project consultation, please visit the Project Review portal on the USFWS Tennessee Ecological Services Field Office website: [Tennessee Ecological Services Field Office] ***Please note that the database of occurrence records used to map the range of the Northern long-eared bat may not be all-inclusive. Records provided to USFWS are seldom based on comprehensive surveys of all potential habitat and thus do not necessarily provide conclusive evidence that a protected species is present or absent at a specific locality.
Indiana Bat

A layer depicting the range of the endangered Indiana bat (Myotis sodalis) in Tennessee. The range for the Indiana bat in Tennessee was compiled by the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service (USFWS) from a database of occurrence records provided by various State and Federal resource agencies, and is represented using the North American Bat (NABat) Monitoring Program's 10 x 10 km (100 km) grid cell framework. The Indiana bat range layer is publicly available to assist project proponents with early project scoping and coordination. Project proponents may use this layer to determine whether a project's footprint overlaps the Indiana bat's range in Tennessee. For additional information regarding the Indiana bat range or Section 7 project consultation, please visit the Project Review portal on the USFWS Tennessee Ecological Services Field Office website: [Tennessee Ecological Services Field Office] ***Please note that the database of occurrence records used to map the range of the Indiana bat may not be all-inclusive. Records provided to USFWS are seldom based on comprehensive surveys of all potential habitat and thus do not necessarily provide conclusive evidence that a protected species is present or absent at a specific locality.
Gray Bat

A layer depicting the range of the endangered Gray bat (Myotis grisescens) in Tennessee. The range for the Gray bat in Tennessee was compiled by the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service (USFWS) from a database of occurrence records provided by various State and Federal resource agencies. The Gray bat range layer is publicly available to assist project proponents with early project scoping and coordination. Project proponents may use this layer to determine whether a project's footprint overlaps the Gray bat's range in Tennessee. For additional information regarding the Gray bat range or Section 7 project consultation, please visit the Project Review portal on the USFWS Tennessee Ecological Services Field Office website: [Tennessee Ecological Services Field Office] ***Please note that the database of occurrence records used to map the range of the Gray bat may not be all-inclusive. Records provided to USFWS are seldom based on comprehensive surveys of all potential habitat and thus do not necessarily provide conclusive evidence that a protected species is present or absent at a specific locality.
Core Sagebrush Areas 2020 - Tiled Imagery Layer

File-based data for download: [https://www.sciencebase.gov/catalog/item/62d57e89d34e87fffb2dda62] This 2020 data was compiled as a part of a landscape conservation design effort for the sagebrush biome, and are the result of applying a spatially explicit model that assessed geographic patterns in sagebrush ecological integrity and used these results to identify Core Sagebrush Areas (CSAs), Growth Opportunity Areas (GOAs), and Other Rangeland Areas (ORAs). Our overall objective in this study was to characterize geographic patterns in ecological integrity of sagebrush ecosystems. These data represent the estimated integrity of sagebrush ecosystems, estimated from a spatial model that assigns high integrity is areas with abundant big sagebrush and perennial grass/forb cover and with minimal annual grass/forb cover, minimal conifers, and minimal human modification. This spatial model was applied over the entire sagebrush biome for several time periods and were estimated for 5 historical time periods between 1998 and 2020, and for one future time period (2030-2060). For each time period, input data were derived from satellite imagery, and the spatial model used those input values to estimate sagebrush ecological integrity. This approach to estimating ecological integrity was developed by consultation with experts from across the biome, allowing for the relationship between integrity and plant cover to vary among regions, as described in Doherty et al (2022). These data can be used to inform and prioritize conservation and restoration efforts across the sagebrush biome.
Tstorm_2021

Upland accessibility for nesting Mallard, Northern Pintail, Blue-winged Teal, Northern Shoveler, Lesser Scaup and Gadwall was predicted by combining the distance a hen will travel from a core wetland to upland nesting cover, and the distribution of breeding duck pairs predicted using a duck pair - wetland relationship that is dependent on wetland size, type, and geographic location. Wetland percent full adjustments for individual wetlands are made when models are available. Annual field observations on 3000+ wetlands from 1987-2021 were used to develop the duck pair – wetland relationships and 3,000,000+ individual wetland basins were modeled and duck pairs were predicted for each wetland. The land area was subdivided into roughly 40 acre units and the accessibility of each unit was modeled using a moving focal window relative to species- specific travel distances. This product was named the "thunderstorm map" because it looks like a radar of a thunderstorm moving across the prairie pothole joint venture. https://ecos.fws.gov/ServCat/Reference/Profile/149603
BeachCOMBERS survey locations

Coastal Ocean Mammal and Bird Education and Research Surveys – BeachCOMBERS The Coastal Ocean Mammal and Bird Education and Research Surveys (BeachCOMBERS) program was created in 1997 with the objective to train citizen scientists to collect standardized scientific data within Monterey Bay National Marine Sanctuary (MBNMS). Since then, this citizen science program has greatly expanded: we have trained and coordinated more than 150 volunteers to monitor human and natural impacts to coastal wildlife by documenting the deposition of marine birds, mammals, and sea turtles from as far north as Santa Cruz County to as far south as Los Angeles County. Program objectives are as follows: 1) obtain baseline information on rates of beach deposition of marine birds and mammals; 2) assess causes of seabird and marine mammal mortality; 3) assist resource management agencies in early detection of unusual rates of natural and anthropogenic mortality; 4) assess abundance of tar balls (oil patches) on beaches; 5) build a network of interacting citizens, scientists, and resource managers; and 6) disseminate related information to resources agencies, the public, and educational institutions. BeachCOMBERS is a collaborative program that has successfully informed resource managers about wildlife impacts from anthropogenic and natural sources such as oil spills, starvation, fishery interactions, harmful algal blooms, plastic ingestion, and entanglements (e.g., Nevins and Harvey 2004, Jessup et al. 2009, Nevins et al. 2011, Donnelly-Greenan et al. 2014, Henkel et al. 2014, Donnelly et al. in prep). The program is a collaboration between Moss Landing Marine Laboratories (MLML), MBNMS, and other state and research institutions including the California Department of Fish and Wildlife (CDFW), US Geological Survey (USGS), and US Fish and Wildlife Service (USFWS) with the specific goal of using deposition of beach-cast carcasses as an index of sanctuary health (see Nevins et al. 2011). [https://www.mlml.calstate.edu/beachcombers/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2019/07/BC-20-yr-report-summary-1.pdf]
Grassland SHC Bird Species Cores

DEPRECATED Spatial models and base data used for grassland conservation design to inform conservation delivery. Spatial layers for building grassland conservation design. Predicted population cores (25%, 50% and 75%) of four breeding birds (Sprague's Pipit (sppi), Thick-Billed Longspur (mclo), Chestnut-Collard Longspur (cclo), Baird's Sparrow) based on a range-wide random forest distribution model. In addition, the Aquatic Species Distribution is also part of this hosted feature layer. Each layer listed in this hosted feature layer has links to it's related file-based data for download.
BatSiteMean at bat acoustic monitoring sites

This is a point feature collating data and location information for 261 bat acoustic monitoring sites around the midwestern US and the Great Lakes collected by the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service's radar team, as well as Kevin Heist. See Supplementary Information for more details. The purpose of this dataset is to provide a information for bat activity 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 and habitat use by bats. This information has been incorporated into the Great Lakes Airspace Map Decision Support Tool (GLAM DST). This DST is meant to help managers plan projects and conservation activities. The DST provides layers that predict areas of high bird and bat activity within the Great Lakes basin. Layers are radar-based for birds and acoustic-based for bats. These layers can be used in conjunction with publicly available layers or with private project layers to pinpoint areas for management that would benefit migratory birds and/or bats as well as meeting other objectives.
PCC Managed Lands

The sources used for this compilation include the easements shapefile from Bay County GIS with the category of CON (conservation); lands from the Bay County Conservancy; easements identified in the 2004 Audubon Report; as well as parcels identified by Patty Kelly. Also includes conservation easements in the old airport provided by Preble-Rish. Please see the field "EsmtSource" for more information on the source of these features. Added field PCCMngd to identify easements (Y/N) that are currently managed for PCC or working towards agreements for PCC management. Last updated November 2019. This layer is included in a storymap about the Panama City crayfish, a species listed as Threatened under the Endangered Species Act in 2022. Storymap link: [https://fws.maps.arcgis.com/home/item.html?id=a791906fe3f8433eabadda5898184372]
PCC Heat Map vector

The Kernel Density tool calculates the density of features in a neighborhood around those features. Kernel Density calculates the density of point features around each output raster cell. Conceptually, a smoothly curved surface is fitted over each point. The surface value is highest at the location of the point and diminishes with increasing distance from the point, reaching zero at the Search radius distance from the point. Only a circular neighborhood is possible. The volume under the surface equals the Population field value for the point, or 1 if NONE is specified. The density at each output raster cell is calculated by adding the values of all the kernel surfaces where they overlay the raster cell center. This layer is included in a storymap about the Panama City crayfish, a species listed as Threatened under the Endangered Species Act in 2022. Storymap link: [https://fws.maps.arcgis.com/home/item.html?id=a791906fe3f8433eabadda5898184372 ]
SantaRosaPlain_FEMA_100yrFloodPlain

FEMA 100 Year Flood Plain for SRPCS The FIRM is the basis for floodplain management, mitigation, and insurance activities for the National Flood Insurance Program (NFIP). Insurance applications include enforcement of the mandatory purchase requirement of the Flood Disaster Protection Act, which "... requires the purchase of flood insurance by property owners who are being assisted by Federal programs or by Federally supervised, regulated or insured agencies or institutions in the acquisition or improvement of land facilities located or to be located in identified areas having special flood hazards," Section 2 (b) (4) of the Flood Disaster Protection Act of 1973. In addition to the identification of Special Flood Hazard Areas (SFHAs), the risk zones shown on the FIRMs are the basis for the establishment of premium rates for flood coverage offered through the NFIP. The DFIRM Database presents the flood risk information depicted on the FIRM in a digital format suitable for use in electronic mapping applications. The DFIRM database is a subset of the Digital FIS database that serves to archive the information collected during the FIS.
FWS R5 NEFO Connecticut State Boundary Polygon

This polygon 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 Mary Lawrence Young, William & Mary collaborator to USFWS. Polygon layer showing state boundary polygon for Connecticut mapped at the 1:24,000-scale. Layer created by Mary Lawrence Young, College of William and Mary in collaboration with the US Fish and Wildlife Service (FWS), Region 5 (R5), New England Field Office (NEFO). This layer was extracted from the original dataset: [Connecticut Towns] courtesy of [Professor Jill Kelly] from Yale University. For more information contact Anne Condon, anne_condon@fws.gov
Vermont AOP Upper Connecticut River Working Group Groundtruthing

The Upper Connecticut River Aquatic Organism Passage Working Group, a large group of interested parties, has worked to develop a list of potential culverts for replacement. The potential culverts maximize connectivity for Eastern brook trout and the replacement will improve natural stream function. Using persistence modeling, developed by the Eastern Brook Trout Joint Venture, projects are focused in areas within the basin where brook trout are expected to survive increasing future climatic conditions.