Grasslands Risk [U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service] Full Details

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Title:

Grasslands Risk [U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service]

Description:

File-based data for download at https://www.grasslandsroadmap.org/To address these challenges, the CGR provides a flexible strategic framework. This assessment map is core to implementing this framework. Partners and community members can use it to identify opportunities where short- and long-term conservation programs need to take place. This large-scale approach works best when partners work together by combining local priorities, resource concerns, and community will. This map categorizes three areas of conservation to support and grow our core grasslands. By keeping the grass intact and "green-side up", (shown in green on the map) these grassland areas can ensure food security, traditional cultural values and land overeignty for Indigenous Nations. Voluntary short- and long-term conservation programs and practices are needed to keep these core grasslands intact and support grass-based economies to help rural communities thrive. Areas marked in yellow represent lands impacted by the spread of invasive woody vegetation and other annual species that negatively change the characteristic of these grasslands, and by areas under immediate threat of conversion to row-crop agriculture. Every effort should be made to ensure that these areas remain healthy, connected grasslands that benefit both rural communities and wildlife. Purple indicates areas that need strategic investment that include, but are not limited to, removing invasive woody species, converting cropland on marginal soils back to grassland, and connecting to larger blocks of existing grassland. To learn more about the map, explore data layers, and how you can help to support the health of this irreplaceable landscape visit www.grasslandsroadmap.org Grasslands Risk Map Version 1.0 Released 10/21/2022 see https://www.grasslandsroadmap.org/ Appropriate use of data: The Grasslands Risk Map provides a biome-level predictor of area in core grassland habitat, area under threat of conversion or encroachment to trees/woody shrubs, and area already converted/encroached. These data provide context for the top-two drivers of grassland loss over the past couple decades and can help guide national/international conservation priorities for grassland conservation of remaining core areas. In addition, these data are useful for understanding proximity to biome threats for regional/local conservation planners and as a guide for corresponding conservation action. It is recommended to integrate additional data layers/information at appropriate resolutions to further refine conservation actions and priorities at local scales (e.g., local resource concerns, species stronghold data, cultural resources, collaborative conservation groups, etc.) that complement biome-level. Attribute data: Forest, natural (value 1000) Converted/altered Grasslands (Plowed/Encroached) (value 500) Vulnerable Grasslands (At Risk) (value 100) Core Grasslands (value 5) Data still in progress (value 5000)

Creator:

Department of the Interior

Provider:

U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service Open Data

Resource Class:

Web services

Temporal Coverage:

Last modified 2022-12-15

Date Issued:

2022-12-14

Place:

United States

Rights:

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:

File

Language:

English

Date Added:

2023-08-11