Resource Condition Maps - Supplement to the Draft Solar PEIS
Sherrill K and Budde P. 2011. Resource Condition Maps - Supplement to the Draft Solar PEIS
Maps represent the initial set of conditions from which the recommendations for exclusion/AHPRC were drawn. Resource Condition Maps are park - specific PDF - formated maps which represent ten resources which are of potential importance for park management as it relates to potential development in close proxity to NPS units. Resource condition data includes: 1) Upstream Watersheds (NPScape - http://science.nature.nps.gov/im/monitor/npscape/measures.cfm), 2) Roadless Natural Areas (NPScape - http://science.nature.nps.gov/im/monitor/npscape/measures.cfm), 3)Threatened and Endangered Species Critical Habitat (U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service Critical Habitat Portal -http://criticalhabitat.fws.gov/crithab/), 4) Wetlands (U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service National Wetlands Inventory (http://www.fws.gov/wetlands/), 5) Sensitive Soils - Water Erosion Potential - K-Factor and Slope, K-Factor- Whole Soil - All Components - Surface Layer (STATSGO) and Slope, 6) Sensitive Soils - Wind Erosion Classes, Wind Erodibility Groups - All Components (STATSGO), 7) Night Lights, Defense Meteorological Satellite Program (DMSP) NOAA Average Light, 8) Wilderness Character - Naturalness (Proxy), Naturalness Landsacpe Metric - Theobald (2010) . Estimating natural landscape changes from 1992 to 2030 in the conterminous US. Landscape Ecology (25:999-1011), 9) Natural Corridors, Landscape Connectivity - Theobald et al. (In Press). A gradient model of natural lanscape connectivity to prioritize conservation activities. Conservation Letters., 10) Protected Lands, PAD-US 2011, 11) Land Ownership PAD-US 2011, and 12) Viewshed analyses as defined by park managers. Key Resources have been clipped to a 25 mile study area of analysis radius around park unit boundaries.
- Type
- Generic Document
- Authors
- Sherrill, Kirk; Budde, Peter
- Date of Issue
- 2011
- Units
- ARCH , AZRU , BAND , BRCA , CAGR , CANY , CARE , CAVE , CEBR , CHAM , CHCU , CHIR , CORO , CURE , DEPO , DEVA , ELCA , ELMA , ELMO , FLFO , FOBO , GICL , GLCA , GRBA , GRCA , GRSA , GUMO , HOVE , JOTR , JUBA , KICA , LAKE , MANZ , MEVE , MOJA , NABR , ORPI , PARA , PECO , PEFO , PETR , PIMA , PISP , POEX , SAGU , SAPU , SEQU , SUCR , TONT , TUMA , WACA , WHSA , WUPA , YOSE , YUHO , ZION
- Keywords
- Composite Viewshed, Key Observation Points, Natural Corridors, Night Lights, protected lands, renewable energy, Roadless Natural Areas, Sensitive Soils Water Erosion, Sensitive Soils Wind Erosion, solar energy, Solar PEIS, Spatially Balanced Sampling, T&E Critical Habitat, Upstream Watersheds, Viewsheds, Wetlands, Wilderness Character - Naturalness