Web services > United States > 2020-2024

FWS R1 OFWO Draft Barred Owl Management Strategy General Management Areas [U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service]

U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service (USFWS) Oregon Fish and Wildlife Office (OFWO) · 2024 Full Details

Georeferenced: false
Attribute Value
Click on map to inspect values

Full Details

Title
FWS R1 OFWO Draft Barred Owl Management Strategy General Management Areas [U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service]
Description
This dataset depicts the boundaries of mapped barred owl management areas within the range of the northern spotted owl, as described in the draft Barred Owl Management Strategy (Strategy). The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service developed the Strategy to reduce barred owl populations to improve the survival and recovery of northern spotted owls and to prevent declines in California spotted owls ( S. o. occidentalis ) from barred owl competition. The Strategy is a set of recommendations focused on the management of barred owls. The Strategy outlines management approaches, geographic areas, and other considerations to guide management actions by interested and willing public or private landowners or land managers. The Strategy does not create any specific requirements for proactive actions, nor does it place any additional limitations on Federal or non-Federal lands. However, implementation of actions described in the Strategy would require a Migratory Bird Treaty Act permit from the Service's Migratory Bird Program, and any actions that are conducted under this Strategy and associated permit must fit within the description of the Strategy and follow the protocol for barred owl removal and required monitoring. The Strategy only addresses barred owl threats and management, and does not change underlying land management or modify northern spotted owl critical habitat, the Recovery Plan, or any land designations. It is complementary to, and does not replace, the management of spotted owl habitat. In the range of the northern spotted owl, the Strategy includes three approaches to barred owl management, applied across the range at varying scales: 1) spotted owl site management, 2) General Management Areas (GMAs) with associated Focal Management Areas (FMAs), and 3) Special Designated Areas. The details of management under these approaches may vary by physiographic province, depending on the condition of spotted owls, barred owls, and habitat within the province. This dataset includes the boundaries of the GMAs and Special Designated Areas described in the Strategy. Within each GMA, the Strategy allows entities implementing the Strategy to designate one or more smaller FMAs, according to a set of priorities included in the Strategy, along with the implementing entities' own considerations. Management recommendations for the Special Designated Areas vary by type and by province. Please see the Strategy for additional details and https://ecos.fws.gov/ServCat/Reference/Profile/178520 for a downloadable dataset.
Creator
U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service (USFWS) Oregon Fish and Wildlife Office (OFWO)
Temporal Coverage
Last Modified: 2024-07-10
Date Issued
2023-12-26
Rights
The United States Fish and Wildlife Service (Service) shall not be held liable for improper or incorrect use of the data described and/or contained herein. While the Service makes every reasonable effort to ensure the accuracy and completeness of data provided for distribution, it may not have the necessary accuracy or completeness required for every possible intended use. The Service recommends that data users consult the associated metadata record to understand the quality and possible limitations of the data. The Service creates metadata records in accordance with the standards endorsed by the Federal Geographic Data Committee. As a result of the above considerations, the Service gives no warranty, expressed or implied, as to the accuracy, reliability, or completeness of the data. It is the responsibility of the data user to use the data in a manner consistent with the limitations of geospatial data in general and these data in particular. Although these data have been processed successfully on a computer system at the Service, no warranty, expressed or implied, is made regarding the utility of the data on another system or for general or scientific purposes, nor shall the act of distribution constitute any such warranty. This applies to the use of the data both alone and in aggregate with other data and information.
Access Rights
Public
Format
ArcGIS FeatureLayer
Language
English
Date Added
August 10, 2025
Provenance Statement
The metadata for this resource was last retrieved from U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service Open Data on 2025-08-24.

Links

Cite and Reference

  • Citation
    U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service (USFWS) Oregon Fish and Wildlife Office (OFWO) (2023). FWS R1 OFWO Draft Barred Owl Management Strategy General Management Areas [U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service]. . https://gis-fws.opendata.arcgis.com/datasets/fws::fws-r1-ofwo-draft-barred-owl-management-strategy-general-management-areas (web service)
  • BTAA Geoportal Link

View more items like this one...

FWS R1 OFWO Franklin's bumble bee High Priority Zones [U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service]

2024

Northern Spotted Owl Critical Habitat [U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service]

2021

FWS R1 ES Greater Sage Grouse Historic Range [U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service]

2017

CWTD Range 20151214 UTM [U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service]

2022

CWTD HistoricRange UTM [U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service]

2022

Northern Spotted Owl Critical Habitat [U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service]

2021

Northern Spotted Owl Critical Habitat [U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service]

2021

Northern Spotted Owl Critical Habitat [U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service]

2021

Northern Spotted Owl Critical Habitat [U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service]

2021

Tennessee's SWAP Conservation Opportunity Areas (2015) [U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service]

2015