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

The existing CH includes 965 thousand acres of FL waterways was established in 1976. The proposed revised CH encompasses 1.9 million acres of Florida’s waterways. Approximately 38% overlap with current manatee CH. There is the current and revised CH overlap, newly proposed CH and the no longer be designated under the proposed revision. Critical habitat constitutes areas considered essential for the conservation of a listed species. These areas provide notice to the public and land managers of the importance of the areas to the conservation of this species. Special protections and/or restrictions are possible in areas where Federal funding, permits, licenses, authorizations, or actions occur or are required. West Indian manatees can be found along the coastal and inland waters of the southern United Sattes, throughout the Caribbean islands and along the eastern coasts of Mexico and Central America and the northern coast of South America. These data identify, in general, the areas of proposed critical habitat for West Indian Manatee (Trichechus manatus), for the subspecies Florida Manatee in Florida
Existing_CH_Excluded_from_PCH

The existing CH includes 965 thousand acres of FL waterways was established in 1976. The proposed revised CH encompasses 1.9 million acres of Florida’s waterways. Approximately 38% overlap with current manatee CH. There is the current and revised CH overlap, newly proposed CH and the no longer be designated under the proposed revision. Critical habitat constitutes areas considered essential for the conservation of a listed species. These areas provide notice to the public and land managers of the importance of the areas to the conservation of this species. Special protections and/or restrictions are possible in areas where Federal funding, permits, licenses, authorizations, or actions occur or are required. West Indian manatees can be found along the coastal and inland waters of the southern United Sattes, throughout the Caribbean islands and along the eastern coasts of Mexico and Central America and the northern coast of South America. These data identify, in general, the areas of proposed critical habitat for West Indian Manatee (Trichechus manatus), for the subspecies Florida Manatee in Florida
FCH_Trichechus_manatus_19770922

The existing West Indian Manatee CH was established in 1976. Critical habitat constitutes areas considered essential for the conservation of a listed species. These areas provide notice to the public and land managers of the importance of the areas to the conservation of this species. Special protections and/or restrictions are possible in areas where Federal funding, permits, licenses, authorizations, or actions occur or are required. West Indian manatees can be found along the coastal and inland waters of the southern United States. These data identify, in general, the areas of Final critical habitat for West Indian manatees. The layer identifies designated critical habitat in south Florida under the Endangered Species Act.
vegetated_wetland_to_nlcd_open_water

Vegetated Wetland to Open Water Difference Product for HUC12 subwatersheds in the contiguous U.S. Watersheds with ≤0.5% of upland to open water difference, calculated by area, are displayed in light blue, while those that have greater than 2% difference are displayed in dark blue. The ≤0.5% category is filtered out in many web maps to improve performance. Patterns are largely controlled by the age of National Wetlands Inventory (NWI) data and land cover trends, including the addition or increase in pond and lake area via natural and anthropogenic forces. Areas exhibiting the greatest amount of difference (i.e., change) include the Prairie Pothole Region and the southeastern U.S. Geographies with the greatest levels of difference could be prioritized for NWI updates.
BRAT HUC12 easiest and straightforward miles

This layer depicts BRAT easiest and straightforward miles that fall within Sagebrush core and growth habitat are scored based on how many miles per HUC 12. A total score is created by binning and scoring 1-5 where 5 is the most miles. The Beaver Restoration Assessment Tool (BRAT) downloads for the state of Idaho were incorporated into the analysis. The results for perennial streams were queried to include only the streams categorized in the BRAT analysis as Easiest- low hanging fruit, or Straightforward with the purpose of selecting streams where it might be easiest to provide process-based restoration. After the BRAT data was filtered on these categories it was clipped to find only the streams that were falling within Sagebrush Core and Growth areas or a 500ft buffer of Core and Growth Areas. The resulting BRAT streams that fit these two criteria – in Easiest or Straightforward areas and within a 500ft boundary of Sagebrush Core and Growth areas were summed based on stream miles per HUC. They were binned into 5 categories using Quantile and scored 1-5 with the HUCs having the most stream miles for potential restoration receiving a 5, and those with the least stream miles receiving a 1. These steps were taking for both HUC 8 and HUC12.
Panama City Crayfish Critical Habitat

A review of the best available science has determined that the Panama City crayfish meets the definition of threatened under the Endangered Species Act (ESA). The science indicates that the Panama City crayfish is likely to become an endangered species within the foreseeable future throughout all or a significant portion of its range. The final listing decision, 4(d) rule, critical habitat designation, and support documentation are available online at https://www.regulations.gov under Docket Nos. FWS-R4-ES-2017-0061 and FWS–R4–ES–2020–0137. Published in the Federal Register (https://www.federalregister.gov/) on January 5, 2022. (Document citation: 87 FR 546) The Endangered Species Act (ESA) defines critical habitat as the specific geographic areas that contain features essential to the conservation of an endangered or threatened species that may require special management and protection. Designating critical habitat under the ESA does not affect land ownership or establish a refuge, wilderness, reserve, preserve or other conservation area, nor does it allow the government or public to access private lands. Additionally, it would not affect private landowners unless they implement an action involving federal funds, permits, or activities. The final designation includes eight (8) units as critical habitat for the Panama City crayfish. They comprise 4,138 acres (1,675 hectares (ha)) of land, entirely within Bay County, Florida. All units are occupied or otherwise contain Panama City crayfish populations as of this listing. Each unit is considered essential to the conservation of the species. Any actions that may affect the species or habitat in these areas would also affect the designated critical habitat. However, the Service is unlikely to recommend additional conservation efforts to address the adverse modification standard beyond those already needed to avoid jeopardizing the species’ continued existence. There are no other existing critical habitat designation overlaps with the Panama City crayfish critical habitat.
Ownership for BRAT HUC 12 in Sagebrush Core and Growth

Beaver Restoration And Assessment Tool (BRAT) Perennial Stream layer was overlaid with Sagebrush Core and Growth habitat to find the intersection of these two layers. Land ownership was added from Bureau of Land Management data and condensed into category types and assigned to the streams. Landownership categories included. federal, state, tribal, private, etc., for these priority streams.
FWS R1 FA Columbia River Fisheries Program Office Pacific Lamprey Conservation Activities poly

Examples of conservation efforts pulled out of Regional Implementation Plans. Basins extracted from USGS watershed boundary dataset. The Pacific Lamprey Conservation Initiative (PLCI) is a collaboration of Native American tribes, federal, state, municipal and local agencies, and non-governmental organizations working to achieve long-term persistence of Pacific Lamprey, their habitats, and support their traditional tribal use throughout their historical range spanning the West Coast of North America. The intent of the partnership is to achieve this goal, where ecologically and economically feasible, by maintaining viable populations and habitats in areas where Pacific Lamprey exist currently, restoring where they are at risk of extirpation or are extirpated, and doing so in a manner that addresses the importance of lamprey to tribal peoples. PLCI envisions a future where threats to Pacific Lamprey and their habitats are reduced, and the historic geographic range and ecological role of Pacific Lamprey are restored to the greatest extent possible.
FWS R1 FA Columbia River Fisheries Program Office Pacific Lamprey Conservation Activities line

Examples of conservation efforts pulled out of Regional Implementation Plans. Stream lines extracted from StreamNet database. The Pacific Lamprey Conservation Initiative (PLCI) is a collaboration of Native American tribes, federal, state, municipal and local agencies, and non-governmental organizations working to achieve long-term persistence of Pacific Lamprey, their habitats, and support their traditional tribal use throughout their historical range spanning the West Coast of North America. The intent of the partnership is to achieve this goal, where ecologically and economically feasible, by maintaining viable populations and habitats in areas where Pacific Lamprey exist currently, restoring where they are at risk of extirpation or are extirpated, and doing so in a manner that addresses the importance of lamprey to tribal peoples. PLCI envisions a future where threats to Pacific Lamprey and their habitats are reduced, and the historic geographic range and ecological role of Pacific Lamprey are restored to the greatest extent possible.
Eklutna Spawning Survey_results

The Eklutna River is an anadromous river in South Central Alaska, whose salmon runs have provided important subsistence fishing for Native Alaskan's for millennia. US Fish and Wildlife Service and our partners at the Native Village of Eklutna are hoping to better document the locations of returning fish and the behaviors they are exhibiting during fall river surveys. Spawning behaviors, fish condition, and species are recorded along with a time and georeferenced point on the map. This survey will also help manage photos and data in a tidy structure. Making this query-able through ArcGIS Online will allow for easy data management and up to date sharing between USFWS and NVE. This template includes all XLSForm features supported in ArcGIS Survey123 and was created in Survey123 Connect.
2024_Fish Passage Construction Daily Report

This layer displays point data generated from the publicly available [Survey123 form], that goes by the same name. The goal of this is to display data collected on active US Fish and Wildlife Fish Passage construction sites across Alaska, through use of a survey and [ArcGIS Dashboard] to display and manage construction photos, while providing a tool to track progress in the construction process. Data is organized by site and date of the construction report and is set up to share information about key milestones such as, dewatering, excavation, culvert placement, stream substrate installation, and revegetation. Both the form and the dashboard associated with this layer are publicly available and hyperlinked above. For further questions contact timothy_a_ericson@fws.gov or franklin_dekker@fws.gov.
Community Benefits Fish Passage Transformational Projects_ CEQ_WFL1

This map shows transformational fish passage projects in Ohio, Montana, and North Carolina that demonstrate the powerful benefits that these projects bring to local communities – benefits like improved public safety, enhanced resilience to risks associated with climate change, restored cultural value of natural systems, and improved recreational opportunities. These projects are part of a larger list of over 70 projects selected by the Federal Interagency Task Force that highlight community-centric restoration projects that not only rejuvenate ecosystems, but also bolster the climate resilience and economies of communities across the country.
Ecosystems Benefits Fish Passage Transformational Projects_WFL1

This map shows transformational fish passage projects in Arizona, Washington, and California that demonstrate the powerful aquatic ecosystem benefits that these projects bring to local communities. Reconnecting rivers helps restore the natural processes that sustain ecosystems—improving habitat diversity, supporting wildlife populations, and even enhancing nutrient cycling. These projects are part of a larger list of over 70 projects selected by the Federal Interagency Task Force that highlight community-centric restoration projects that not only rejuvenate ecosystems, but also bolster the climate resilience and economies of communities across the country.
Midwest Conservation Blueprint Ecoregions

This polygon layer contains the spatial boundaries of the ecoregions used for the spatial stratification of the Midwest Conservation Blueprint. Breaking down the Midwest Landscape into Ecoregions reduces processing time of our spatial planning software and ensures a fairer comparison of indicators across an ecologically diverse region. By stratifying the landscape, each map pixel will only be compared and prioritized in relation to other pixels of the same ecosystem type. Ecoregional boundaries are based on the EPA’s Level II, III, and IV Ecoregions and were created to reduce variation in ecoregional size while differentiating unique ecosystem types. For full mapping details, please refer to the [Midwest Conservation Blueprint 2024 Development Process]. For a complete download of all Blueprint input and output data, visit our [ScienceBase repository], which contains all files used in each annual blueprint update.
Expanded Opportunity Area for Highlands Landscape

This layer represents the Expanded Opportunity Area for Highlands Landscape. States may request that the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service (USFWS) add municipalities (with their concurrence) within this Expanded Opportunity Area for Highlands Landscape to the Federal Highlands boundary used for the Federal Highlands Conservation Act. The Highlands Conservation Act authorizes the Secretary of the Interior to provide financial assistance to the States of Connecticut, New Jersey, New York, and Pennsylvania (Highland States) to preserve and protect high priority conservation land in the Highlands region. This dataset was developed by the USFWS in April 2024 with state input. The Expanded Opportunity Area for Highlands Landscape expands the region that was initially established in the U.S. Forest Service (USFS) reports (Federal Highlands boundary used for the Federal Highlands Conservation Act) to generally include the remainder of level 4 ecoregions that were initially only partially included. It is defined by physiographic and geomorphic features where possible, although it follows municipal boundaries as was done in the initial USFS studies. On the west side, from south to north, the updated Highlands Landscape is bounded by the Kittatinny Ridge and Appalachian trail in Pennsylvania north to the Shawangunk Mountains in New York. It includes the remainder of the Hudson Valley, Taconic Foothills, and Western New England Marble Valleys Level 4 ecoregions (parts of which were within the initial federal Highlands Boundary, and which make up the “Northeastern Highlands” Level 3 Ecoregion) in New York. At its northern edge, the Highlands Landscape includes Columbia Co., NY and ends at the Massachusetts border. On the east side, the updated Highlands Landscape includes the remainder of the Connecticut Valley and Southern New England Coastal Hills and Plains ecoregions in Connecticut and New York, which were partially included in the initial federal HCA boundary, except the landscape does not include the highly developed, low elevation towns in Westchester and Rockland County, NY. The Highlands Landscape then continues along the eastern edge of the Watchung Mountains, which form the boundary of the Trap Rock and Conglomerate Uplands ecoregion in Passais, Essex, and Union Counties, NY. The Landscape then follows the eastern edge of the Triassic Lowlands Ecoregion, in which other “trap rock and conglomerate uplands” like the Sourland Mountain are embedded in New York and Pennsylvania, and a portion of which was in the initial federal boundary. The Landscape then follows the boundary of the Schuylkill Highlands Conservation Landscape in Pennsylvania to Octoraro Creek, incorporating Lancaster County, PA west to the Susquehanna Riverlands Conservation Landscape and then along Codorus Creek to the Maryland border. The original federal HCA boundary encompassed nearly 3.5 million acres and 320 municipalities, while the updated Highlands Landscape boundary is almost 3 times larger, encompassing 10.2 million acres and 877 towns.
FWS R1 ES Greater Sage Grouse Historic Range

Prior to European settlement of western North America in the 19th century, sage-grouse occurred in an area that today would cover 13 States and 3 Canadian provinces—Arizona, California, Colorado, Idaho, Montana, Nebraska, Nevada, North Dakota, Oregon, South Dakota, Utah, Washington, Wyoming, British Columbia, Alberta, and Saskatchewan (Schroeder et al. 2004). Sagebrush habitats that potentially supported sage-grouse occurred over approximately 1.2 million square kilometers (460,000 square miles) before 1800 (Schroeder et al. 2004, p. 366). This layer depicts this historic distribution of potential habitat, or range, of the Greater Sage-grouse (Centrocercus urophasianus). Initially researched and compiled by Dr. Michael A. Schroeder, research biologist for the Washington State Department of Fish and Wildlife (1999).
Chesapeake WILD Program Grant Projects, 2022

Signed into law in October 2020, the Chesapeake Watershed Investments for Landscape Defense (Chesapeake WILD) Act directed the Secretary of the Interior, through the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, to develop and implement the non-regulatory Chesapeake WILD Program. Chesapeake WILD was established for the following purposes: 1. Coordination among federal, state, local, and regional entities to establish a shared vision for sustaining natural resources and human communities throughout the Chesapeake Bay and its watershed, 2. Engagement of diverse agencies and organizations to build capacity and generate funding that address shared restoration and conservation priorities, and 3. Collaboration to administer a grant program and implement projects to conserve, steward, and enhance fish and wildlife habitats and related conservation values. This dataset represents 11 projects awarded more than $3.5 million that generated $4.5 million in match from the grantees, providing a total conservation impact of $8 million for conservation investments support unmet place-based needs that align with five shared pillars. Spatial data are collected from grantees in a polygon geometry. The accuracy of polygons that are submitted depend on the methodology used by grantees to create them. Some grantees have a GIS team that uploads detailed project footprints developed by experienced GIS analysts. Others create project footprints during the grant application process using a map-based online drawing tool. All polygons are reviewed and approved by relevant program staff to ensure proper scale. Points are generated from polygons submitted by grantees. If there is one polygon, the point is placed in the centroid of the polygon. If there are multiple polygons that are within close proximity to each other, one point is generated as a representative point of the multiple polygons. If there are multiple polygons that are far away from each other, multiple points are created (the centroid of each of the polygons). Consequently, polygons are recommended for quantitative analyses requiring a high spatial resolution, and points are recommended for mapping the general location of many projects over large areas. - this means there are some duplicate points on the map. Please take the accuracy, methodology, and guidelines into consideration as you conduct your analyses. These data are intended for your internal analysis and the use case outlined above only. Spatial data should not be shared with other third party entities without approval from the National Fish and Wildlife Foundation. If you have any questions about the data, please feel free to contact to Mike Lagua (Michael.Lagua@nfwf.org).
Idaho HUC 12 Sagebrush Core and Growth

This layer depicts percentage of Sagebrush Core and Growth Opportunity Area habitat by HUC 12 from Sagebrush conservation design. [https://gs-portal-fws.hub.arcgis.com/apps/378ca52aa510491b84a30d0d9fa25a5c/explore] Sage brush core and growth was calculated per HUC 12 and divided by HUC 12 acres to get a percentage. Sagebrush Core and Growth Opportunity areas were used to represent the higher value sagebrush habitat.
Idaho HUC 8 Sagebrush Core and Growth

This layer depicts percentage of Sagebrush Core and Growth Opportunity Area habitat by HUC 8 from Sagebrush conservation design. [https://gs-portal-fws.hub.arcgis.com/apps/378ca52aa510491b84a30d0d9fa25a5c/explore] Sagebrush Core and Growth was calculated per HUC 12 and divided by HUC 12 acres to get a percentage. Sagebrush Core and Growth Opportunity areas were used to represent the higher value sagebrush habitat.
Forest Resource Priorities in the Highlands Region

This layer represents forest resource priorities in the Highlands region. This layer is intended to inform grant proposals for the Highlands Conservation Act. The Highlands Conservation Act authorizes the Secretary of the Interior to provide financial assistance to the States of Connecticut, New Jersey, New York, and Pennsylvania (Highland States) to preserve and protect high priority conservation land in the Highlands region. This layer ranges from 0 to 14 (with 14 being highest priorities for forest conservation in the region). The layer prioritizes areas that are important for forest connectivity (using the UMassDSL forest connectivity layer), high forest carbon storage in 2050 (using the TNC forest layer), and part of large core forest blocks (using Housatonic Valley Association’s forest core layer). Forest cores and forest landcover in townships with less than 14.7% forest cover are also up-ranked (based on NLCD 2021).
Bald Eagle Nesting Sites - Pennsylvania - View Only

Bald Eagles are no longer protected under the federal Endangered Species Act. Therefore, section 7 consultation with the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service is no longer necessary. However, Bald Eagles remain protected under the Bald and Golden Eagle Protection Act. To help landowners, land managers, and others meet the intent of the Bald and Golden Eagle Protection Act, the Service prepared National Bald Eagle Management Guidelines. This map depicts intact Bald Eagle nests in Pennsylvania with a 330', 660' and 1000' buffer zone established around each site. These locations were identified by historic data, aerial surveys, and field observations during the 2015 to 2021 nesting seasons. New nest sites may have been established since the latest surveys were completed, so additional surveys are recommended for potential development projects. You must 'zoom in' to the nest locations for the actual nest site buffer zones to appear.