AR MAV CDN Restoration Decision Support Tool [U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service]
Description
FOR non-AGOL ACCOUNT HOLDERS, DOWNLOAD THIS GEOSPATIAL DATA HERE:https://gis-fws.opendata.arcgis.com/search?tags=lmvjvThe Forest Reforestation DST of the AR MAV CDN is constructed to help partners define a strategy for identifying and addressing delivery priorities in the Network area, particularly related to forest reforestation/afforestation. The DST combines best available landscape design data that collectively consider multiple priorities for bottomland hardwood restoration in the Mississippi Alluvial Valley - Ducks Unlimited's Wetlands Restoration Suitability Model and the LMVJV"s Forest Breeding-bird Decision Support Model. This DST revision incorporates both updated data and newly revised data in this dual modeling approach. The incorporated data models include: recently updated 2011 MAV Forest Breeding Bird Decision Support Model (Lower MS Valley Joint Venture, 2015) and the DU Wetland Restoration Suitability Model. Although inputs used in the revision are considered the highest resolution data (30m x 30m pixels) available, and fully consistent with landscape level conservation uses, final outputs are actually presented in the form of priority clusters or neighborhoods, produced through GIS focal neighborhood analysis. Since conservation activities do not typically occur at scales as small as 900 meters2 (or less than one-quarter acre), utilizing neighborhood analysis is helpful for finding where high priority pixels are more densely associated. Thus, the approach better assists in identifying priority areas where conservation actions might be focused as oppose to working with or attempting to target priority pixels.
Department of the Interior (2024). AR MAV CDN Restoration Decision Support Tool [U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service]. . https://gis-fws.opendata.arcgis.com/maps/fws::ar-mav-cdn-restoration-decision-support-tool (web service)