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FWS R1 OFWO Draft Barred Owl Management Strategy General Management Areas [United States]

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FWS R1 OFWO Draft Barred Owl Management Strategy General Management Areas [United States]
Description
General Management Areas (GMAs) represent the primary focus of barred owl management across most physiographic provinces identified in the Northern Spotted Owl Recovery Plan ( USFWS 2011 ). These areas were delineated using landscape-scale GIS data and ecological considerations, including spotted owl site density, habitat quality, barred owl density, connectivity, and risk of catastrophic events such as wildfire. GMAs are generally large enough to support 200-300 spotted owl sites, based on home range sizes and overlap assumptions, though actual size varies by province due to topography and habitat conditions. GMAs may include small portions of adjacent provinces for logistical reasons and exclude towns and heavily populated areas where barred owl removal would not occur. Tribal lands were included only upon request by Tribes (e.g., Hoopa Valley, Yurok, Yakama Nation). Within GMAs, barred owl management will occur only on lands of willing landowners or managers and will avoid areas within 0.25 miles of occupied dwellings, campgrounds, and other locations with regular human use. At any one time, barred owl management within a province is limited to a maximum of 50% of the combined GMA area to maintain redundancy and reduce risk from catastrophic events. GMAs provide the framework for creating smaller FMAs during implementation, and their boundaries may shift over time in response to habitat changes or catastrophic events. This dataset shows the mapped GMAs developed by the interagency, intergovernmental team to guide implementation of the Draft Barred Owl Management Strategy. Please see the Strategy for additional details and https://ecos.fws.gov/ServCat/Reference/Profile/178520 for a downloadable dataset.
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U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service (USFWS) Oregon Fish and Wildlife Office (OFWO)
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U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service Open Data
Temporal Coverage
Last Modified: 2024-07-10
Date Issued
2023-12-26
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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.
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Public
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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 2026-01-08.

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    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 [United States]. U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service Open Data. https://gis-fws.opendata.arcgis.com/datasets/fws::fws-r1-ofwo-draft-barred-owl-management-strategy-general-management-areas (web service)
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