FWS R1 PNW Coastal Conservation Blueprint: Wild Conservation Value and Threats

A great deal of collaboration is currently occurring among individuals, companies, organizations, and agencies in the region. However, there are many places on the landscape where key threats and stressors to habitats, such as land conversion and climate impacts, require focused efforts and discussion to make efficient use of limited resources to move the conservation needle while maintaining working lands. This dataset is a combination of coastal forest threats and conservation value. Threats: can be seen here: http://eemsonline.org/?model=sHuQLRfIhFh9oE2czQD95yyHskXkvjlS Data Used: Housing Density: Theobald, D. 2005. Landscape patterns of exurban growth in the USA from 1980 to 2020. Ecology and Society 10(1): 32. [online] URL: http://www.ecologyandsociety.org/vol10/iss1/art32/). National Park Service. 2010. NPScape housing measure – Phase 1 metrics processing SOP: Current housing density, historic housing density, and projected housing density metrics. National Park Service, Natural Resource Program Center. Fort Collins, Colorado. Natural Resource Report. NPS/NRPC/IMD/NRR—2010/251. Published Report-2165448. Terrestrial Resilience Stratified by Land Facet and Ecoregion (Pacific Northwest): Buttrick, S., K. Popper, M. Schindel, B. McRae, B. Unnasch, A. Jones, and J. Platt. 2015. Conserving Nature's Stage: Identifying Resilient Terrestrial Landscapes in the Pacific Northwest. The Nature Conservancy, Portland, Oregon. 104 pp. Available online at: http://nature.ly/resilienceNW March 3, 2015. Conversion Potential: Wilson, T.S., Sleeter, B.M., Sleeter, R. R., Soulard, C.E. 2014, Land use threats and protected areas: a scenario-based landscape level approach, Land, 3 (2): 362-389 "Conversion potential into developed, agriculture and forest harvest lands in the Pacific Northwest from 2000 to 2100. Values 1–7 represent the number of scenarios projecting land-use conversion over the modeled period." Data inputs in Model: Terrestrial Resilience Stratified by Land Facet and Ecoregion = Average Climate Change Resilience – in model used not tool to identify areas that are not as resilient to climate change. Conversion Potential = average Conversion Potential Housing Density = Average housing density increase. Used raster calculator to determine areas with an increase in housing density between 2100 and 2010. Weighted union for Increase in development Housing density increase (weight 1) and conversion potential (weight 0.5). Thresholds: Used first and third quartile values unless stated otherwise. If the first and third quartile were both zero then the third quartile value was taken from array with just HUCs with values. Conservation Value: can be seen here: http://eemsonline.org/?model=XsCKKBhKtQt5i8i020cwQfY0JFkHTCjB Data Used: WGA CHAT: State Wildlife Agencies of the Western United States. West-wide Crucial Habitat Data Set. Western Association of Fish and Wildlife Agencies Crucial Habitat Assessment Tool: Mapping Fish and Wildlife Across the West. Western Association of Fish and Wildlife Agencies. Published 12/02/2013. Accessed November 2017. http://www.wafwachat.org Theobald Landscape Condition Index: Theobald et al 2013: metadata: https://www.sciencebase.gov/catalog/item/55538c61e4b0a92fa7e94d0e OmniScape current flow: McRae, B.H., K. Popper, A. Jones, M. Schindel, S. Buttrick, K. Hall, R.S. Unnasch, and J. Platt. 2016. Conserving Nature’s Stage: Mapping Omnidirectional Connectivity for Resilient Terrestrial Landscapes in the Pacific Northwest. The Nature Conservancy, Portland Oregon. 47 pp. Available online at: http://nature.org/resilienceNW June 30, 2016. Bird density data: American Bird Conservancy, Klamath Bird Observatory, PRBO Conservation Science Veloz, S., L. Salas, B. Altman, J. Alexander, D. Jongsomjit, N. Elliott, D. Moody, S. Michaile, M. Fitzgibbon and G. Ballard. 2013. Projected effects of climate change on the distribution and abundance of North Pacific birds and their habitats. Final report to the North Pacific Landscape Conservation Cooperative. Data inputs in Model: Percent area WGA CHAT intact_LS = Core Areas in model Average Theobald Landscape Condition Index = Landscape Condition Average of normalized Current Density of Townsend's Warbler, Olive-Sided Flycatcher, and Brown Creeper = Average Bird density Bird’s were picked to represent different forest types Late successional – Brown Creeper; Mid Successional – Townsend’s Warbler; Early successional – Olive-Sided Flycatcher. Minimum WGA CHAT SOC ter_soc and aq_soc = Species of Concern Percent Area Diffuse Current Flow = Diffuse Connectivity Thresholds: Used first and third quartile values unless stated otherwise. If the first and third quartile were both zero then the third quartile value was taken from array with just HUCs with values.