Connect the Coast (CTC) Prioritized Habitat Blocks

Metadata:

• Identification_Information
• Data_Quality_Information
• Spatial_Data_Organization_Information
• Entity_and_Attribute_Information
• Metadata_Reference_Information

Identification_Information:

Citation:

Citation_Information:

Originator:

Peter Steckler, The Nature Conservancy, GIS & Conservation Project Manager

Publication_Date: 20191031

Title: Connect the Coast (CTC) Prioritized Habitat Blocks

Geospatial_Data_Presentation_Form: vector digital data

Online_Linkage:

<URL:http://www.granit.unh.edu/cgi-bin/nhsearch?dset=ctc_prioritized_blocks/nh>

Description:

Abstract:

Over the last 25+ years, a concerted effort has helped protect large blocks of wildlife habitat across the seacoast region. However, a rapidly developing landscape and expanding road network is increasingly fragmenting these habitat blocks from one another. This fragmentation threatens the ability for native wildlife to move among areas of suitable and required habitats, which is vital to their survival. Connect THE Coast used spatial models to identify connecting lands for wildlife across the 10-mile buffered portion of the Piscataqua-Salmon Falls watershed that drains through New Hampshire. As a result, identified wildlife corridors (i.e. connecting lands and waters with suitable and intact dispersal habitat) encompass just ten percent of the project area. However, only 13 percent of these wildlife corridors are protected. Nineteen percent of the project area is prioritized as unfragmented habitat for wildlife, that is, the large unfragmented blocks of natural habitat that the corridors run between. Nearly half of these core habitats are conserved. Connect THE Coast priorities provide the necessary information for stakeholders, whether land trusts, town planning and conservation boards, state regulators, road managers, project funders, or landowners, to identify the places to protect that will maintain opportunities for wildlife to move across the landscape, both now and into the future. While meaningful protection has begun, more focused and deliberate protection is required to secure a connected network of lands for sustainable wildlife populations.

Purpose:

CTC prioritized habitat blocks represent conservation focus areas for wildlife habitat based on regional conservation plans and state wildlife action plans for the study area.

Time_Period_of_Content:

Time_Period_Information:

Range_of_Dates/Times:

Beginning_Date: 20170907

Ending_Date: 20191031

Currentness_Reference: Temporal period extent reflects the duration of the project.

Status:

Progress: Complete

Maintenance_and_Update_Frequency: As needed

Spatial_Domain:

Bounding_Coordinates:

West_Bounding_Coordinate: -71.561

East_Bounding_Coordinate: -70.438

North_Bounding_Coordinate: 43.765

South_Bounding_Coordinate: 42.691

Keywords:

Theme:

Theme_Keyword_Thesaurus: ISO 19115 Topic Categories

Theme_Keyword: environment

Theme_Keyword: transportation

Theme:

Theme_Keyword_Thesaurus: None

Theme_Keyword: conservation

Theme_Keyword: wildlife

Theme_Keyword: connectivity

Theme_Keyword: planning

Theme_Keyword: New Hampshire

Access_Constraints: None

Use_Constraints: Not for legal use.

Data_Set_Credit:

Steckler, P and Brickner-Wood, D. 2019. Connect The Coast final report. The Nature Conservancy and the Great Bay Resource Protection Partnership. Concord, NH.

Native_Data_Set_Environment: Esri ArcGIS 10.6.0.8321

Data_Quality_Information:

Logical_Consistency_Report: see project report

Completeness_Report: see project report

Lineage:

Source_Information:

Type_of_Source_Media: hardDisk

Source_Contribution:

Steckler, P and Brickner-Wood, D. 2019. Connect The Coast final report. The Nature Conservancy and the Great Bay Resource Protection Partnership. Concord, NH.

Process_Step:

Process_Description:

see project report at https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=https-3A__www.nature.org_content_dam_tnc_nature_en_documents_nh-2Dconnect-2Dthe-2Dcoast-2Dreport.pdf&d=DwIFaQ&c=c6MrceVCY5m5A_KAUkrdoA&r=uU6ZQnIY6G2yqPZabmplr0eUxlHsWY9xtQYnMJxd2RE&m=An3bH7EUns-apxF_tcZ7DUKpr2lbreL-ox71a3qXEiE&s=XXqwolQcn_g7Oao7BpwmXuMxkRn7Xi1ETkkxYssT0p4&e=

Process_Date: 20191031

Process_Contact:

Contact_Information:

Contact_Organization_Primary:

Contact_Organization: The Nature Conservancy

Contact_Person: Peter Steckler

Contact_Position: GIS & Conservation Project Manager

Contact_Address:

Address_Type: mailing and physical

Address: 22 Bridge Street, Fourth Floor

City: Concord

State_or_Province: New Hampshire

Postal_Code: 03301

Country: US

Contact_Voice_Telephone: 6032245853

Contact_Electronic_Mail_Address: psteckler@tnc.org

Spatial_Data_Organization_Information:

Direct_Spatial_Reference_Method: Vector

Point_and_Vector_Object_Information:

SDTS_Terms_Description:

SDTS_Point_and_Vector_Object_Type: GT-polygon composed of chains

Point_and_Vector_Object_Count: 153

Entity_and_Attribute_Information:

Detailed_Description:

Entity_Type:

Entity_Type_Label: CTC_Prioritized_Blocks

Entity_Type_Definition: Connect the Coast prioritized habitat blocks

Entity_Type_Definition_Source: TNC

Attribute:

Attribute_Label: FID

Attribute_Definition: Internal feature number.

Attribute_Definition_Source: Esri

Attribute_Domain_Values:

Unrepresentable_Domain:

Sequential unique whole numbers that are automatically generated.

Attribute:

Attribute_Label: SHAPE

Attribute_Definition: Feature geometry.

Attribute_Definition_Source: Esri

Attribute_Domain_Values:

Unrepresentable_Domain: Coordinates defining the features.

Attribute:

Attribute_Label: Name

Attribute_Definition:

Name of prioritized habitat block from source plan. For blocks without a name, the source was used.

Attribute_Definition_Source: TNC

Attribute_Domain_Values:

Unrepresentable_Domain:

Name of prioritized habitat block from source plan. For blocks without a name, the source was used.

Attribute:

Attribute_Label: Source

Attribute_Definition: Source of prioritized habitat block

Attribute_Definition_Source: TNC

Attribute_Domain_Values:

Unrepresentable_Domain: Source of prioritized habitat block

Attribute:

Attribute_Label: Area_AC

Attribute_Definition: Area in acres of prioritized habitat block

Attribute_Definition_Source: TNC

Attribute_Domain_Values:

Unrepresentable_Domain: Acres calculated using "Calculate Geometry"

Attribute:

Attribute_Label: NodeID

Attribute_Definition:

Unique modeling node identifier used in the linkage mapper modeling tool.

Attribute_Definition_Source: TNC

Attribute_Domain_Values:

Unrepresentable_Domain: Unique identifier for each habitat block.

Metadata_Reference_Information:

Metadata_Date: 20191105

Metadata_Contact:

Contact_Information:

Contact_Organization_Primary:

Contact_Organization: The Nature Conservancy

Contact_Person: Peter Steckler

Contact_Position: GIS & Conservation Project Manager

Contact_Address:

Address_Type: mailing and physical

Address: 22 Bridge Street, Fourth Floor

City: Concord

State_or_Province: New Hampshire

Postal_Code: 03301

Country: US

Contact_Voice_Telephone: 6032245853

Contact_Electronic_Mail_Address: psteckler@tnc.org

Metadata_Standard_Name: FGDC Content Standard for Digital Geospatial Metadata

Metadata_Standard_Version: FGDC-STD-001-1998

Metadata_Time_Convention: local time