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JV Breeding X Non-Breeding Waterbirds (Pxl) [U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service]

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JV Breeding X Non-Breeding Waterbirds (Pxl) [U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service]
Description
Joint Ventures (JVs) are bird conservation partnerships, established to achieve the goals of the North American Waterfowl Management Plan (NAWMP). There are 22 bird habitat JVs in North America, and our JV, the Upper Mississippi/Great Lakes Region Joint Venture (UMGL JV) is located in the Midwest, in a pivotal location in the Mississippi Flyway , for people involved in migratory bird conservation. We are a collaborative, regional group of government agencies, tribes, nonprofit organizations, corporations, universities, and individuals that conserve habitat for the benefit of migratory birds, other wildlife, and people. Our landscape includes eastern Minnesota; all of Wisconsin and Michigan; eastern Nebraska and Kansas; western, southern and eastern Iowa; northern Missouri, Illinois and Indiana; and northwestern Ohio. To address Waterbird habitat limitation during the breeding and non-breeding periods and improve population trend in our JV, we aim to maximize focal species recruitment through conservation of high quality breeding and non-breeding habitats. To help achieve this objective, we used the spatial datasets of breeding and non-breeding periods (see strategic plan) in a fuzzy overlay product analysis and produced a model highlighting the areas with mutual importance for breeding and non-breeding periods for retention and expansion. Finally, we converted the original raster datset of this model to TIFF format (this product) to improve data visualization, assessment, and interactivity online. The raster map was published in the JV Waterbird Habitat Conservation Strategy - 2018 Revision (Figure 10C). This product shows the distribution and relative density (scale of 0 - 1; values of low - high) of the most valuable areas (pixel neighborhoods) across the JV region, to acquire or manage whatever the required conservation action at the local scale is (i.e., retention, protection, and or restoration). Aggregate-priority-areas, emphasized mostly across Bird Conservation Region (BCR) 22 and 23, were predicted to produce the most value for the decision makers. This product can be scaled-down (i.e., stepped-down to state, watershed, county, or any smaller target area) and supplemented with additional local data for customized output maps depicting best areas for Waterbird breeding and non-breeding habitat restoration vs. retention vs. enhancement. See the JV website and related step-down publications for details. Links: Coming Soon: To download this TIFF dataset and related data, metadata, and documentation, please browse the UMGL JV online folder in the U.S. Geological Survey's ScienceBase repository . To view and explore this TIFF dataset and related data, please visit the online experience of the UMGL JV Decision Support Tools . References: Model codes and final steps (for internal use of UMGLJV staff): (i) AgsJvwWbBrdYsNo_FzyOvrlyProduct_Hlshd1Sd25Gam25_021518 = albers_Jv18WbBrdYsNoFzX. (ii) albers_Jv18WbBrdYsNoFzX → converted to TIFF and projected on-the-fly to WGS84 → renamed to Jv18WbBrdYsNoFzXR. Coming Soon: For internal use of USFWS staff: Data Management Plan (DMP) ID = 000; Title: UMGL JV Breeding and Non-Breeding Waterbird Distribution: Areas of Mutual Importance .
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U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service
Temporal Coverage
Last Modified: 2025-09-18
Date Issued
2025-09-12
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
Format
ArcGIS ImageMapLayer
Language
English
Date Added
September 22, 2025
Provenance Statement
The metadata for this resource was last retrieved from U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service Open Data on 2025-09-21.

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    U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service (2025). JV Breeding X Non-Breeding Waterbirds (Pxl) [U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service]. . https://gis-fws.opendata.arcgis.com/content/fws::jv-breeding-x-non-breeding-waterbirds-pxl (web service)
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