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: 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: None 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