Organization: | Gulf Coast Prairie LCC |
Name: | Connecting advanced land cover for improved biological planning and conservation design |
Submission Period: | July 14, 2016 10:30 AM MDT - August 5, 2016 4:00 PM MDT |
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Project Need: The Gulf Coast Prairie Landscape Conservation Cooperative (LCC) identified focal species to help focus Partnership efforts on priority conservation and associated science needs, including the development of landscape conservation design products that aid decision-making for conservation delivery actions. In order to improve biological planning and landscape conservation design efforts to implement State Wildlife Action Plans (SWAPs) for the benefit of Gulf Coast Prairie LCC focal species and an ongoing Great Plains LCC landscape conservation design pilot project, both Partnerships require seamless and consistent land cover data in Oklahoma and Texas and processes and systems to detect and validate changes in land cover over time.
Project Description: Covering eleven percent (11%) of the total land area of the contiguous US (lower 48 states) this effort will produce seamless and consistent land cover data through a process of bridging and improving existing land cover data and other spatial data for Oklahoma and Texas that are fully compatible for planning and modeling purposes for focal species - habitat efforts.
The activities conducted through this project will at least include standardizing and linking existing data products for Oklahoma and Texas in the following ways.
A successful applicant will demonstrate documented buy in from and cooperation with TPWD and Oklahoma Department of Wildlife Conservation with funding to support meetings and data collection,
This project will set the stage for fine resolution landscape conservation design efforts to aid decision-making for conservation delivery actions (e.g. restoring grassland habitats) by the Great Plains LCC, Gulf Coast Prairie LCC and others.