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BIA | 2013
LANDFIRE, also known as Landscape Fire and Resource Management Planning Tools, is an interagency effort to store more than 20 vegetation, fire, and fuels vegetation geospatial layers for the United…
FWS | 2013
The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service (USFWS) uses avian radar along with multiple other methods to monitor bird and bat migration along the shorelines of the Great Lakes (http://www.fws.gov/radar/…
FWS | 2013
The invasive wetland plant Phragmites australis forms very tall, monotypic, dense stands of reeds that cause massive habitat degradation and biological diversity reduction in Great Lakes wetlands.…
FWS | 2013
This project addresses unauthorized grazing by cattle on two islands (Wosnesenski and Chirikof) within the Alaska Maritime National Wildlife Refuge. The refuge was established in 1980 to conserve…
FWS | 2013
Refuge staff photographed one unit of Bandon Marsh National Wildlife Refuge (NWR) using a handheld digital single-lens reflex camera from a helicopter. The flight produced hundreds of…
FWS | 2013
Light detection and ranging (lidar) acquired for Camas National Wildlife Refuge was used to create models of the current water regime and explore possible changes in water control structures within…
FWS | 2013
Chinook salmon (Oncorhynchus tshawytscha) populations are declining throughout most of Alaska but remain a valuable resource for subsistence, sport, and commercial harvests. Traditional ecological…
FWS | 2013
A lidar dataset is providing a high-resolution digital elevation model for modeling various natural resource related issues. The data collection is facilitating the development of models for wetland…
FWS | 2013
Southwest semidesert grasslands are highly affected by a century of livestock grazing, disruption of historical fire regimes, prolonged drought, and non-native plant invasions. The USFWS has sought…
FWS | 2013
The golden-cheeked warbler and black-capped vireo were listed by the USFWS as endangered in 1990 and 1987, respectively. In 1992 the 10,000-ha Balcones Canyonlands National Wildlife Refuge (BCNWR)…
FWS | 2013
The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) and USFWS conducted a pilot project to test two types of Unmanned Aircraft Systems (UAS) as platforms to monitor seabird colonies within the…
FWS | 2013
In conjunction with the Yellow Crazy Ant eradication project being conducted on Johnston Atoll, located approximately 800 miles west of Honolulu, Hawaii, team members took the opportunity to develop…