AndreaBozzo/ceres-open-data-index huggingface dataset:
PNW Cascades to Coast Landscape Collaborative Boundary

The geographic scope of the CCLC covers a coastal ecoregion. This landscape collaborative is an effort to convene people within the coastal ecoregion to develop a shared vision of what our beautiful and important landscape can and should look like. We also aim to implement a set of strategies to sustain this ecoregion long-term by ensuring habitat connectivity for native fish and wildlife species across these working lands.
Pacific Lamprey Known Distribution StoryMap View

Date: December 2020 Summary: The Pacific lamprey has inhabited the rivers, streams and coastal waters of the west for 350 million years (BPA, 2005). These data describe areas of known distribution (this dataset is limited to Oregon, Washington and Idaho) currently and historically used by Pacific Lamprey. Pacific Lamprey, Entosphenus tridentata are native to the Pacific coast from Baja California to the Bering Sea. They are anadromous, migrating from their natal stream to the ocean and back, but unlike salmon, Pacific Lamprey spend well over half of their total life cycle in freshwater. Distribution data is mapped at a 1:24,000 scale and are based on the StreamNet Hydrography dataset. Type: ArcGIS Feature Layer View for Pacific Lamprey StoryMap. Only showing streams for Pacific Lamprey, Unknown lamprey streams not shown in this view Reason: Public outreach Scale: Web Source: Columbia River Fish and Wildlife Conservation Office curated the data from multiple sources (see metadata).
FWS_R1_FA_Columbia_River_Fish_and_Wildlife_Conservation_Office_Pacific_Lamprey_Distribution_2016

Summary: The Pacific lamprey has inhabited the rivers, streams and coastal waters of the west for 350 million years (BPA, 2005). These data describe areas of suitable habitat currently and historically used by Pacific lamprey populations. Pacific lamprey, Lampetra tridentata, (more recently identified as Entosphenus tridentatus), are native to the Pacific coast from Baja California to the Bering Sea. They are anadromous, migrating from their natal stream to the ocean and back, but unlike salmon, Pacific lamprey spend well over half of their total life cycle in freshwater. Distribution data is mapped at a 1:24,000 scale statewide and are based on the StreamNet Hydrography dataset. Type: ArcGIS Feature Layer Reason: Public outreach Scale: Web Source: Columbia River Fisheries Program Office curated the distribution data from multiple sources.
NRDARsites_NWRrestoration

The four Natural Resource Damage Assessment and Restoration (NRDAR) cases include: AdvanSix, Kinder Morgan, C&R Battery, and Bow Mariner. The settlement funds from these cases were used on National Wildlife Refuges to implement restoration activities that would benefit the same resources that were impacted. Locations are approximate and do not mark the release site exactly. This feature layer is meant for informational/visualization purposes.
MCD_OutputDat_CONUS_120920

This is shapefile of data collected through the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service Monarch Conservation Database (MCD) summarized at the county-level. The spatial extent of the data is the continental United States. Summary data includes the number of completed, implemented, or planned conservation efforts in each county, the number of acres of conservation effort, and an estimate of the number of milkweed stems added to the landscape as a result of conservation efforts. All of the data was provided on a voluntary basis by registered users of the MCD. This data was used in the monarch species status assessment to evaluate the current level of conservation effort, and project future levels of conservation effort.
R8 FAC 2016_GST_Movement_SE2_WFL1

The upper Sacramento River in California contains spawning and rearing habitat for the Southern Distinct Population Segment (DPS) of North American Green Sturgeon Acipenser medirostris. In 2006, National Marine Fisheries Service published notification of the listing of the Southern DPS of North American Green Sturgeon as Threatened (71 FR 17757). The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service’s Mainstem Juvenile Monitoring Program in Red Bluff, California has been investigating the outmigration of juvenile green sturgeon from the upper Sacramento River to the Sacramento- San Joaquin Delta. In 2016, 19 individual juvenile green sturgeon were tagged with two types of Juvenile Salmon Acoustic Telemetry System (JSATS) micro-acoustic tags. Their outmigration towards the Delta was monitored by the use of the JSATS receiver array maintained through a collaborative effort by U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, U.S. Army Corps of Engineers and the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration. This Web Map depicts sturgeon movement observed during a flow event produced by a rain storm on November 21st, 2016.
2015_LCC_Network

This data is for planning purposes only. LCCs are applied conservation science partnerships with two main functions. The first is to promote collaboration among their members in defining shared conservation goals. With these goals in mind, partners can identify where and how they will take action, within their own authorities and organizational priorities, to best contribute to the larger conservation effort. The second function of LCCs is to provide the science and technical expertise needed to address the shared priorities and support conservation planning at landscape scales – beyond the scope and authority of any one organization. The organizational model of the LCC Network was intentionally structured to operate as a coordinated network of regionally-focused, self-directed partnerships. Self-direction and regional focus are important for individual LCCs to enable latitude for engaging local stakeholders on relevant high-priority issues within their geographies. Network coordination is important for LCCs to function as a larger collective to address issues at the appropriate ecological scale, to share best practices, to leverage resources, and to find economies of scale. For further information go to http://lccnetwork.org and https://www.sciencebase.gov/catalog/item/55b943ade4b09a3b01b65d78. Collectively, LCCs comprise a seamless international network supporting landscapes and seascapes capable of sustaining abundant, diverse, and healthy populations of fish, wildlife, and plants. They provide a strong link between science and conservation delivery without duplicating existing partnerships or creating burdensome and unnecessary bureaucracy. Science-based recommendations and decision support tools produced by LCCs are readily transferable to field offices that implement on-the-ground actions. Rather than create a new conservation infrastructure from the ground up, LCCs build upon explicit biological management priorities and objectives, science available from existing partnerships (such as fish habitat partnerships, migratory bird joint ventures and flyway councils), as well as species- and geographic-based partnerships. LCCs support adaptive resource management by evaluating implementation of conservation strategies, maintaining and sharing information and data, and improving products as new information becomes available. Shared data platforms serve multiple purposes, including the collaborative development of population or habitat models under alternative climate scenarios to inform spatially explicit decision support for all partners. In the face of accelerated climate change and other 21st-century conservation challenges, LCCs regularly assess scientific information and effectiveness of conservation actions and support necessary adjustments as new information becomes available. This iterative process of information sharing helps scientists and resource managers deal with uncertainties on the landscape and provides tools to evaluate the implications of management alternatives to determine the most effective conservation actions to support shared priorities.
Bexar Karst Invertebrate Critical Habitat

Critical habitat was designated for areas known to be occupied by any of the nine Bexar County karst invertebrates which included the cave footprint, the surface and subsurface drainage areas of the cave (where known), a cave cricket foraging area, and an area of at least 100 acres around the cave footprint of undisturbed or restorable vegetation as recommended by the Bexar County Karst Invertebrates Recovery Team. In this designation, we included areas that possess those physical or biological features essential to the conservation of each of the species and that may require special management considerations or protection. Even though the nine Bexar County invertebrates spend their entire lives underground, we included specific surface features when identifying critical habitat units, because they are important drainage links into the caves, and because surface habitat is needed to support the plant and animal communities upon which the invertebrates depend for nutrients. For more information on listed karst invertebrates in Texas, see [https://www.fws.gov/southwest/es/AustinTexas/ESA_Sp_KarstInverts.html].
Travis / Williamson Counties Karst Zones

In 1992, four endangered species habitat and management zones in the Austin region were delineated for the USFWS by George Veni and Associates. Those zones were defined as: * Zone 1: areas known to contain endangered cave fauna * Zone 2: areas having a high probability of suitable habitat for endangered or other endemic invertebrate cave fauna (refined now to only endangered cave fauna) * Zone 3: areas that probably do not contain endangered cave fauna; and * Zone 4: areas which do not contain endangered cave fauna. Zone boundaries were updated in 2007 to reflect more recent studies of cave and karst development and the most current biological information available on the distribution of listed and non-listed troglobite species. For more information on listed karst invertebrates in Texas, see [https://www.fws.gov/southwest/es/AustinTexas/ESA_Sp_KarstInverts.html].
Travis / Williamson Counties, Texas Karst Fauna Regions

Karst fauna regions in Travis and Williamson counties, Texas (adapted from Figure 19, Karst fauna areas of the Austin region, in Veni and Associates, 1992) are areas that support one or more of the listed karst invertebrate species in those two counties. These regions are delineated based on geologic continuity, hydrology, and the distribution of 38 rare troglobitic species. For more information on listed karst invertebrates in Texas, see [https://www.fws.gov/southwest/es/AustinTexas/ESA_Sp_KarstInverts.html].
Mercury-impacted Rivers

Layer was created from the National Hydrography Dataset (NHD) to show only the rivers impacted by mercury from the former DuPont facility in Waynesboro, VA - South River, South Fork Shenandoah River, and Shenandoah River (within the South Fork Shenandoah River watershed in Virginia). More information about the NHD below. The NHD is a feature-based database that interconnects and uniquely identifies the stream segments or reaches that make up the nation's surface water drainage system. NHD data was originally developed at 1:100,000-scale and exists at that scale for the whole country. This high-resolution NHD, generally developed at 1:24,000/1:12,000 scale, adds detail to the original 1:100,000-scale NHD. (Data for Alaska, Puerto Rico and the Virgin Islands was developed at high-resolution, not 1:100,000 scale.) Local resolution NHD is being developed where partners and data exist. The NHD contains reach codes for networked features, flow direction, names, and centerline representations for areal water bodies. Reaches are also defined on waterbodies and the approximate shorelines of the Great Lakes, the Atlantic and Pacific Oceans and the Gulf of Mexico. The NHD also incorporates the National Spatial Data Infrastructure framework criteria established by the Federal Geographic Data Committee.
Bexar County Karst Fauna Regions

For the purpose of the Bexar County Karst Invertebrates Recovery Plan, karst fauna regions (KFR) are geographic areas that were delineated based on potential discontinuity of karst habitat that may reduce or limit interaction between troglobite populations (Veni 1994). Six KFRs were established by Veni (1994) and are as follows: Stone Oak, UTSA, Helotes, Government Canyon, Culebra Anticline, and Alamo Heights (Figure 2). These KFRs serve as recovery units for the listed karst invertebrates in Bexar County, Texas. For more information on karst invertebrates, see [https://www.fws.gov/southwest/es/AustinTexas/ESA_Sp_KarstInverts.html]
Austin blind salamander surface crit. hab.

The polygon provided in this data layer represents surface designated critical habitat areas based on our best assessment at the time of areas that are within the geographical range of the Austin blind salamander and are considered to contain features essential to the conservation of this species. When determining surface critical habitat boundaries, we were not able to delineate specific stream segments on the map due to the small size of the streams. Therefore, we drew a circle with a 262-ft (80-m) radius representing the extent the surface population of the site is estimated to exist upstream and downstream. The surface critical habitat includes the spring outlets and outflow up to the ordinary high water line (the average amount of water present in nonflood conditions, as defined in 33 CFR 328.3(e)) and 262 ft (80 m) of upstream and downstream habitat (to the extent that this habitat is ever present), including the dry stream channel during periods of no surface flow. The surface habitat does not include manmade structures (such as buildings, aqueducts, runways, roads, and other paved areas) within this circle. For more information on Austin blind salamanders, see [https://www.fws.gov/southwest/es/AustinTexas/ESA_Sp_Salamanders.html].
R8 FAC 2016_GST_Movement_SE3_WFL1

The upper Sacramento River in California contains spawning and rearing habitat for the Southern Distinct Population Segment (DPS) of North American Green Sturgeon Acipenser medirostris. In 2006, National Marine Fisheries Service published notification of the listing of the Southern DPS of North American Green Sturgeon as Threatened (71 FR 17757). The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service’s Mainstem Juvenile Monitoring Program in Red Bluff, California has been investigating the outmigration of juvenile green sturgeon from the upper Sacramento River to the Sacramento- San Joaquin Delta. In 2016, 19 individual juvenile green sturgeon were tagged with two types of Juvenile Salmon Acoustic Telemetry System (JSATS) micro-acoustic tags. Their outmigration towards the Delta was monitored by the use of the JSATS receiver array maintained through a collaborative effort by U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, U.S. Army Corps of Engineers and the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration. This Time Aware map depicts sturgeon movement observed during two flow events produced by a rain storms on October 31st and November 21st, 2016.
Waterhole Sites

Fresh waterholes (sampling locations for salinity monitoring). Web dataset for navigating to and collecting waterhole salinity information in National Key Deer Refuge. Purpose: This dataset is to be used to assist with waterhole salinity sampling by providing public volunteer access to waterhole locations and a means for recording waterhole measurements in the field. Audience: NKDR Staff and Volunteers Scale: Waterhole locations within National Key Deer Refuge boundaries Accuracy: Accurate to 1:20,000 scale (not to be used for determining exact refuge boundaries or precise locations of any kind) Source: Internal NKDR GIS database.
Key Deer NWR Land

All refuge lands within National Key Deer WR boundary. Individual units dissolved. The National Key Deer Refuge was established in 1957 to protect and preserve in the national interest the Key deer and other wildlife resources in the Florida Keys. The Refuge is located in the lower Florida Keys and currently consists of approximately 9,200 acres of land that includes pine rockland forests, tropical hardwood hammocks, freshwater wetlands, salt marsh wetlands, and mangrove forests. It is home to 23 endangered and threatened plant and animal species and hundreds of others. Wildlife dependent activities are allowed; these include saltwater fishing, wildlife observation and photography, interpretation, and environmental education. Purpose: This dataset is designed to provide refuge staff and public volunteers a reference map of refuge lands in the lower keys in order to assist them in field related activities. Audience: NKDR Staff and Volunteers Scale: Refuge managed areas within existing refuge boundaries Accuracy: Accurate to 1:20,000 scale (not to be used for determining exact refuge boundaries) Source: Internal NKDR GIS database.
R8 FAC 2016_GST_Movement_SE1_WFL1

The upper Sacramento River in California contains spawning and rearing habitat for the Southern Distinct Population Segment (DPS) of North American Green Sturgeon Acipenser medirostris. In 2006, National Marine Fisheries Service published notification of the listing of the Southern DPS of North American Green Sturgeon as Threatened (71 FR 17757). The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service’s Mainstem Juvenile Monitoring Program in Red Bluff, California has been investigating the outmigration of juvenile green sturgeon from the upper Sacramento River to the Sacramento- San Joaquin Delta. In 2016, 19 individual juvenile green sturgeon were tagged with two types of Juvenile Salmon Acoustic Telemetry System (JSATS) micro-acoustic tags. Their outmigration towards the Delta was monitored by the use of the JSATS receiver array maintained through a collaborative effort by U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, U.S. Army Corps of Engineers and the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration. This Web Map depicts sturgeon movement observed during a flow event produced by a rain storm on October 31st, 2016.
R8 FAC 2016_Trawling_Locations_WFL1

The upper Sacramento River in California contains spawning and rearing habitat for the Southern Distinct Population Segment (DPS) of North American Green Sturgeon Acipenser medirostris. In 2006, National Marine Fisheries Service published notification of the listing of the Southern DPS of North American Green Sturgeon as Threatened (71 FR 17757). The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service’s Mainstem Juvenile Monitoring Program in Red Bluff, California has been investigating the outmigration of juvenile green sturgeon from the upper Sacramento River to the Sacramento- San Joaquin Delta. In 2016, 19 individual juvenile green sturgeon were tagged with two types of Juvenile Salmon Acoustic Telemetry System (JSATS) micro-acoustic tags. Their outmigration towards the Delta was monitored by the use of the JSATS receiver array maintained through a collaborative effort by U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, U.S. Army Corps of Engineers and the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration. This Web Map depicts where benthic trawls for juvenile green sturgeon collection had been completed in the Sacramento River, California.
2016_JSATS_Receiver_Array_WFL1

The upper Sacramento River in California contains spawning and rearing habitat for the Southern Distinct Population Segment (DPS) of North American Green Sturgeon Acipenser medirostris. In 2006, National Marine Fisheries Service published notification of the listing of the Southern DPS of North American Green Sturgeon as Threatened (71 FR 17757). The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service’s Mainstem Juvenile Monitoring Program in Red Bluff, California has been investigating the outmigration of juvenile green sturgeon from the upper Sacramento River to the Sacramento- San Joaquin Delta. In 2016, 19 individual juvenile green sturgeon were tagged with two types of Juvenile Salmon Acoustic Telemetry System (JSATS) micro-acoustic tags. Their outmigration towards the Delta was monitored by the use of the JSATS receiver array maintained through a collaborative effort by U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, U.S. Army Corps of Engineers and the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration. This map depicts the JSATS receiver array maintained by USFWS, US Army Corp of Engineers and NOAA
Jollyville Plateau salamander surface critical habitat

The polygons provided in this data layer represent surface designated critical habitat areas based on our best assessment at the time of areas that are within the geographical range of the Jollyville Plateau salamander and are considered to contain features essential to the conservation of this species. When determining surface critical habitat boundaries, we were not able to delineate specific stream segments on the map due to the small size of the streams. Therefore, we drew a circle with a 262-ft (80-m) radius representing the extent the surface population of the site is estimated to exist upstream and downstream. The surface critical habitat includes the spring outlets and outflow up to the ordinary high water line (the average amount of water present in nonflood conditions, as defined in 33 CFR 328.3(e)) and 262 ft (80 m) of upstream and downstream habitat (to the extent that this habitat is ever present), including the dry stream channel during periods of no surface flow. We acknowledge that some spring sites occupied by Jollyville Plateau salamanders are the start of the watercourse, and upstream habitat does not exist for these sites. The surface habitat does not include manmade structures (such as buildings, aqueducts, runways, roads, and other paved areas) within this circle. For more information on Jollyville Plateau salamanders, see [https://www.fws.gov/southwest/es/AustinTexas/ESA_Sp_Salamanders.html].
Austin blind salamander subsurface crit. hab.

The polygons provided in this data layer represent subsurface designated critical habitat areas based on our best assessment at the time of areas that are within the geographical range of the Austin blind salamander and are considered to contain features essential to the conservation of this species. The extent to which the subterranean populations of this species exists below ground away from outlets of the spring system is unknown. Because the hydrology of central Texas is very complex and information on the hydrology of specific spring sites is largely unknown, we will continue to seek information to increase our understanding of spring hydrology and salamander underground distribution to inform conservation efforts for these species. At the time of this final critical habitat rule, the best scientific evidence available suggests that a population of these salamanders can extend at least 984 ft (300 m) from the spring opening through underground conduits or voids between rocks. For more information on Austin blind salamanders, see [https://www.fws.gov/southwest/es/AustinTexas/ESA_Sp_Salamanders.html].
R8 FAC 2016_Release_Locations_WFL1

The upper Sacramento River in California contains spawning and rearing habitat for the Southern Distinct Population Segment (DPS) of North American Green Sturgeon Acipenser medirostris. In 2006, National Marine Fisheries Service published notification of the listing of the Southern DPS of North American Green Sturgeon as Threatened (71 FR 17757). The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service’s Mainstem Juvenile Monitoring Program in Red Bluff, California has been investigating the outmigration of juvenile green sturgeon from the upper Sacramento River to the Sacramento- San Joaquin Delta. In 2016, 19 individual juvenile green sturgeon were tagged with two types of Juvenile Salmon Acoustic Telemetry System (JSATS) micro-acoustic tags. Their outmigration towards the Delta was monitored by the use of the JSATS receiver array maintained through a collaborative effort by U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, U.S. Army Corps of Engineers and the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration. This map depicts where our JSATS tagged juvenile green sturgeon were released back into the system.