U.S. Fish & Wildlife ServiceThe "Restoration Acres" feature layer is a component of the " Pollinator Restoration 2022 " map which is itself a component of the " USFWS Pollinator Restoration Projects Mapper " which is a dashboard showing management projects that benefit pollinators across the Western U.S. See below for a description of the "USFWS Pollinator Restoration Projects Mapper." The "USFWS Pollinator Restoration Projects Mapper" is under development by the Region 1 (Pacific Northwest) USFWS Science Applications program. Completion is anticipated by Winter 2023. Contact: Alan Yanahan (alan_yanahan@fws.gov). The purpose of the "USFWS Pollinator Restoration Projects Mapper" is to inform future pollinator conservation efforts by providing a way to identify geographic areas where additional pollinator conservation may be needed. The "USFWS Pollinator Restoration Projects Mapper" maps the locations of where on-the-ground projects that are beneficial to pollinators have taken place. Its primary focus is projects on public lands. The majority of records included in this tool come from internal databases for the USFWS, US Forest Service, and the Bureau of Land Management, which were queried for relevant projects. The tool is not intended as a database for reporting projects to. Rather, the tool synthesizes records from existing databases. The geographic scope of the tool includes the western states of Arizona, California, Idaho, Nevada, Oregon, Utah, and Washington. When possible, the tool includes projects from 2014 to the present. This timespan was chosen because it matches the timespan of the USFWS Monarch Conservation Database For consistency, the tool groups pollinator beneficial projects into the following four activity types: Restoration: Actions taken after a disturbance, such as planting native forbs after a wildfire Maintenance: Actions taken outside the growing season that maintain habitat quality through regular disturbance using manual or chemical means. Examples: mowing, spraying weeds, prescribed fire Conservation: Acquiring land or creating easements that are managed for biodiversity Enhancement: Actions that increase forb diversity and nectar resources, such as planting native milkweed The tool includes a map that aggregates project point locations within 49 square mile sized hexagon grid cells. Users can click on individual grid cells to activate a pop-up menu to cycle through the projects that occurred within that grid cell. Information for each project include, but are not limited to, acreage, type of activity (i.e., restoration, maintenance, conservation, enhancement), data source, and lead organization. The tool also includes a dashboard to view bar graphs and pie charts that display project acreages and project number based on location (i.e., state), project activity type (i.e., restoration, maintenance, conservation, enhancement), data source, and management type. Data can be filtered by data source, activity type, and year. Data filtering will update the map, bar graphs, and pie charts.ArcGIS FeatureLayerhttps://hub.arcgis.com/datasets/ef06ecab092a485b991bb310a0bc3c1b_0engU.S. Fish and Wildlife Service Open DataPublicRestoration Acres [United States]Web servicesUnited StatesLast Modified: 2022-08-04