East Coastal Plain Open Pine Birds (Southeast Blueprint Indicator) [U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service]
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- Title
- East Coastal Plain Open Pine Birds (Southeast Blueprint Indicator) [U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service]
- Description
- Reason for Selection Open longleaf pine forests once spanned nearly 90 million acres across the Southeast, supporting a rich community of wildlife and plants. Fire suppression, deforestation, and conversion to ecosystems dominated by loblolly and slash pine have dramatically reduced the extent of longleaf and caused the decline of many associated species. In addition, pine and prairie birds are experiencing significant declines and are currently off-track for meeting the SECAS 10% goal, so it is important that the Blueprint capture opportunities to conserve, restore, and manage open pine habitat. This indicator also promotes consistency with the longleaf and open pine ecosystem priorities of the East Gulf Coastal Plain Joint Venture (EGCPJV). Input Data Bird priorities fromPrioritization of areas for open pine ecosystem restoration in the Southeastern United States(bird_priority.tif);read the project final report;read a news article about the project;explore the data in the EGCPJV Open Pine Decision Support Tool Estimated Floodplain Map of the Conterminous U.S. from the Environmental Protection Agency's (EPA) EnviroAtlas; see this factsheet for more information; download the data The EPA Estimated Floodplain Map of the Conterminous U.S. displays "...areas estimated to be inundated by a 100-year flood (also known as the 1% annual chance flood). These data are based on the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) 100-year flood inundation maps with the goal of creating a seamless floodplain map at 30-m resolution for the conterminous United States. This map identifies a given pixel's membership in the 100-year floodplain and completes areas that FEMA has not yet mapped" (EPA 2018). 2019 National Land Cover Database(NLCD) Base Blueprint 2022 extent Southeast Blueprint 2023 extent Mapping Steps Reproject the EGCPJV bird priority data to NAD 1983 Contiguous USA Albers (EPSG 5070). If an area intersects an EPA Estimated Floodplain, change the value to NoData. If an area is something besides Evergreen Forest or Mixed Forest in the 2019 NLCD, change the value to NoData. Because the bird priority layer was made with older landcover data, this step helps remove areas that do not currently have pine trees. The EGCPJV bird data provides a raster with scores of 0-100 representing the relative potential for open pine bird response to conservation action. Reclassify this raster as shown in in the legend below. Add zero values to represent the extent of the source data and to make it perform better in online tools. Assign a value of 0 to any pixel that had a value≥ 0 in the original bird priorities layer but was converted to NoData above. Clip to the spatial extent of Base Blueprint 2022. As a final step, clip to the spatial extent of Southeast Blueprint 2023. Note: For more details on the mapping steps, code used to create this layer is available in theSoutheast Blueprint Data Downloadunder > 6_Code. Final indicator values Indicator values are assigned as follows: 5 = High priority for open pine conservation for focal bird species (Bachman's sparrow, red-cockaded woodpecker, Henslow's sparrow, red-headed woodpecker, Northern bobwhite, and brown-headed nuthatch) (score >80-100)4 = Medium-high priority (score >60-80) 3 = Medium priority (score >40-60) 2 = Medium-low priority (score >20-40) 1 = Low priority (score 0-20) 0 = Not a priority (not identified as upland pine) Known Issues The EGCPJV's open pine bird model includes frequently inundated floodplain areas. These areas are unlikely to be potential open pine habitat. To address this in the indicator, we removed areas within the EPA estimated floodplain. This indicator prioritizes some areas outside of the floodplain that were not historically open pine habitat. The 2019 NLCD classes used to exclude non-pine areas of the open pine bird model (evergreen forest and mixed forests) do not exclusively target pine trees. For example, the evergreen class can include other evergreen tree species like Eastern red cedar or southern magnolia. In addition, the NLCD likely misclassifies other types of land cover as evergreen or mixed forests. As a result, this indicator may leave in some areas prioritized in the bird model that are not actually pine. Conversely, the NLCD also likely misclassifies some areas of pine as other land cover classes, which could cause pine areas prioritized in the model to be inadvertently excluded from the indicator. This indicator does not capture areas where planting new pine stands in existing agricultural areas would benefit open pine birds. Disclaimer: Comparing with Older Indicator Versions There are numerous problems with using Southeast Blueprint indicators for change analysis. Please consult Blueprint staff if you would like to do this (email hilary_morris@fws.gov). Literature Cited Grand, J.B., and Kleiner, K.J., 2017, Prioritization of areas for open pine ecosystem restoration in the Southeastern United States: U.S. Geological Survey data release, [https://doi.org/10.5066/F7P26WN2]. Grand, James B. and Kevin J. Kleiner. 2016. Prioritizing Landscapes for Longleaf Pine Conservation. Report provided by the Cooperative Fish and Wildlife Research Unit Program under agreement with the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service. U.S. Department of Interior, Fish and Wildlife Service, Cooperator Science Series FWS/CSS-119-2016, National Conservation Training Center. [https://digitalmedia.fws.gov/digital/collection/document/id/2131]. Open Pine Decision Support Tool. [https://scagulf.shinyapps.io/opdst/]. U.S. Geological Survey (USGS). Published June 2021. National Land Cover Database (NLCD) 2019 Land Cover Conterminous United States. Sioux Falls, SD. [https://doi.org/10.5066/P9KZCM54]. Yang, L., Jin, S., Danielson, P., Homer, C., Gass, L., Case, A., Costello, C., Dewitz, J., Fry, J., Funk, M., Grannemann, B., Rigge, M. and G. Xian. 2018. A New Generation of the United States National Land Cover Database: Requirements, Research Priorities, Design, and Implementation Strategies, ISPRS Journal of Photogrammetry and Remote Sensing, 146, pp.108-123. [https://doi.org/10.1016/j.isprsjprs.2018.09.006].
- Creator
- {'name': 'Department of the Interior'}
- Temporal Coverage
- Last modified 2025-03-04
- Date Issued
- 2023-09-20
- 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.
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- Public
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- Imagery
- Language
- English
- Date Added
- October 17, 2023
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{'name': 'Department of the Interior'} (2023). East Coastal Plain Open Pine Birds (Southeast Blueprint Indicator) [U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service]. . https://gis-fws.opendata.arcgis.com/content/fws::east-coastal-plain-open-pine-birds-southeast-blueprint-indicator-2023 (imagery) -
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