Sarah McCabe GEOG 895A April 2014 Penn State Advisor: Joe Bishop.

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Sarah McCabe GEOG 895A April 2014 Penn State Advisor: Joe Bishop

Topic : Migrating Songbirds Place: Texas Gulf Coast Project Question: Finding the best areas for a Refuge Identify the Criteria Identify Data Part 1: Model the Criteria Part 2: Model the edges Part 3: Model Habitat Corridors

Image: 1944

Structure Large and small trees, Shrubs Vines High insect biomass

Columbia Bottomland Forest Crops Forest

Original extent: 700,000 acres (US Fish and Wildlife Service, 2013)

Percent Canopy, 2001 National Land Cover Dataset 1976: 305,914 acres 1996: 254,269 acres Reduction of 16% (Webb, 1996)

Causes of Clearing Crops Pasture Ponds and reservoirs Roads Pipelines Exurban development Drainage canals

Edge distance: 100 meters from the forest boundary. Core forest and edge forest Core Edge

Forest Fragmentation – Why is it a problem?

Austin’s Woods Conservation Plan

Austin’s Woods Part II Further Approval for 42,000 acres to achieve goal of 70,000 acres.

Austin’s Woods Part II Further approval for 42,000 acres to achieve goal of 70,000 acres. What would be the ideal configuration of refuges, to select the most ecologically valuable areas, and to enhance the wildlife habitat conserved already? 42,000 acres

Austin’s Woods Project Land Protection Plan Priorities List

Approach 1: Literature Review and Expert Opinion-based Habitat Suitability Models Similar to site location. US Fish and Wildlife, Habitat Evaluation Procedures Handbook, 1981 Approach 2: Empirical and Statistical Techniques Good data for species abundance or absence Method: GIS habitat data is associated with species occurrence data. More accurate, more costly. Habitat Modelling:

Project Goal 1: Assess the Landscape for priority values, and identify the areas most highly rated. + + /Max = Example:

Project Goal 1: Assess the Landscape for priority values, and identify the areas most highly rated. Example: Bobcat habitat suitability in Acadia National Park. Rohweder, 2012

Data Sets 1.County Tax Parcel Data Sets Brazoria - Available online from Houston-Galveston Area Council Fort Bend -Available on disk from County Offices Also available online from Houston-Galveston Area Council Matagorda - Data downloadable from their website Wharton. - Available on disk in.dng format from County Offices 2.Infrastructure Data Sets County Roads Texas Railroads Source: Houston-Galveston Area Council 3.Land Cover National Land Cover Database National Land Cover Database Tree Canopy Land Cover Source: Houston-Galveston Area Council Wetlands National Wetlands Inventory 1.Water features National Hydrography Data Set Water Features. Source: Houston-Galveston Area Council 1.Vegetation National Vegetation Classification – General Vegetation Classes This data set has poor spatial resolution in this area National Land Cover Data 2011 – Identifies Forested Wetland Unique and Exceptional Plant Communities - Poll of local experts: Thomas Adams, Warren Pruess, Chris Kueper, David Rosen, Michael Lange. Survey form and on-line map. 2.Vegetation Complexity US Basal Area-Weighted Canopy Heights 2000 (Woods Hole Research Center) 3.Topographic Complexity National Elevation Data (NED) Wharton County (30 meter grid) Brazoria County (10 meter grid) Matagorda County (10 meter grid) Fort Bend County Lidar (in 50 foot grid) 4.Preserve Areas Refuge Boundaries Other protected areas: State Wildlife Management Areas, Mitigation Banks, Private Reserves – Source: Michael Lange, US FWS Biologist

Goal 1 Data Flow Chart

Assess vulnerability for conversion to edge forest Linville Bayou Unit Project Goal 2: Google Earth

Goal 2 Data Flow Chart

Model travel corridors for Gulf Coast Box Turtle. Objective 1 – Identify habitat needs of juvenile Box Turtles (more likely to travel than adults). Objective 2 – Identify data sets to represent barriers, corridors, and quality habitat. Objective 3 – Model corridors with a Least Cost calculation. Result – A raster data set modelling the dispersal of juvenile Box Turtles. Small objects can be barriers for young box turtles. Project Goal 3:

Goal 3 – Corridor Design using cost distance Rohweder, 2012

Goal 3 Data Flow Chart

Goal 1 : Assess the Landscape for priority values: Identified most of the National, State and County sources of data. Identified Two Habitat Modelling examples to imitate Counties vary widely in the availability and format for tax parcel data. The options are: Download Link, for ftp permission, bring a big check for a CD. I need to keep a “Data Directory” spreadsheet so I know where the data is. Study and understand the modeling examples. Acquire and review data Keep another spreadsheet with processing steps.

Data will be adapted from the Goal 1 project. Data Processing should be simple. Goal 2 : Assess vulnerability for conversion to edge forest I want to identify the neighboring parcels that contribute the most to protecting the core forest. That list may need a lot of explanation

Goal 3 : Model travel corridors for Gulf Coast Box Turtle A literature search on Box Turtle habitat and movement. Texas Parks and Wildlife has a Box Turtle reporting system (They consider Box Turtles as threatened.) The data sets I am using may not have fine enough scale to be meaningful. I may make incorrect assumptions about how turtles behave. Choose data sets to model the habitat for young box turtles. Review the habitat and corridor modelling examples.

Identify: Areas of highest value for stop-over habitat for migratory birds A specific list of county tax parcels that include those areas Parcels that are valuable for the protection of core habitat on refuge parcels A corridor model for animals moving between existing refuge parcels. “Reconciliation ecology” – Improving a human-altered landscape for wildlife. Tax benefits and conservation easements - steps a private landowner would need to do to take advantage of any of these programs. Identifying parcels around the refuges to apply these programs to. Discussion:

Week 1 – May 28 A. Collect any data I do not have already Week 2 – June 4 A. Model: Priority 1 Old-growth Habitat B. Priority 2: Contact Plant Experts, gather their input C. Priority 3: Identify large contiguous tracts from county parcels and Tax ID. D. Priority 4: Model Adjacency to large Tracts E. Priority 4: Identify Adjacent parcels that share water or wetland features. G. Priority 5a: Areas with Multi-story Plant Communities H. Priority 6. Topographic complexity I. Write about Priority modelling. Use illustrations and charts. Week 3 – June 11 A. Identify a rating system on the priorities. B. Calculate priorities as a heat map C. Discuss rating with Mike Lange, Refuge Biologist, adjust weight values. D. Identify water features that control water level. Week 4 – June 25 A. Make List of large, priority parcels B. Work on Core and Edge Forest calculations C. Identify top acreage: Top 10K, 20K, Top 40K, Top 60K acres D. Write about Priority modelling. Use illustrations and charts a lot. Weeks 5 and 6– July 9 B. Model habitat corridors for box turtles. C. Write about habitat modelling. Week 7-8 – July 23 A. Write Results section B. Write about “reconciliation ecology” and partnerships with private owners. C. Work on presentation. Week 9-10 July 30 A. Rewrite everything B. Presentation.

Other Conferences: Society for Conservation GIS July 11-13, 2014Monterey, CA Society for Conservation Biology (N America) July 13-17, 2014Missoula, MT Southern Forestry and Natural Resource Management GIS Conference December 2014 Texas Wildlife Society Feb 19-22, 2015Corpus Christi, TX Texas Land Conservation Conference: Mar 4-6, 2015 International Association of Landscape Ecology July 5-10, 2015Portland Oregon. Northwest GIS Users Conference Oct 13-17, 2014 Lynnwood, WA