Elk Winter Range of the Blue Mountains

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Citation:

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Title: Elk Winter Range of the Blue Mountains

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Description:

Abstract:

In keeping with the Mission of the Rocky Mountain Elk Foundation, the M.A.P.™ (Measure and Prioritize) Elk Habitat Project was a cooperative effort, sponsored by the Rocky Mountain Elk Foundation to produce comprehensive information about occupied North American elk habitat. Elk winter and summer range, crucial winter and summer range, parturition, migration and other important habitat areas were drawn using expert opinion of wildlife biologists on a 1:250,000 scale map, state by state across land ownership and jurisdictions in the United States. For the Canadian Provinces, the GIS map scale was 1:1,000,000. The M.A.P.™ Elk Habitat Project can provide resource managers from State and Federal Agencies, Tribal Nations, Canadian Provinces and other wildlife conservation and management interests with a current, efficient and simple GIS tool to assist with habitat management. Uses such as the development of conservation easements, land acquisition and exchange, conservation education and habitat management are a few examples of the long term and collective opportunities to address habitat conservation from the "big picture", mid-scale perspective. Cooperators in this project include State Wildlife Management Agencies, Federal Resource Management Agencies such as U.S.D.A., Forest Service and U.S.D.I., Bureau of Land Management, Tribal Nations and Canadian Resource Ministries from six Provinces.

Purpose:

The M.A.P.™ Elk Habitat Project is not intended for commercial or private use, but to provide resource managers from State and Federal Agencies, Tribal Nations, Canadian Provinces and other wildlife conservation and management interests with a current, efficient and simple GIS tool to assist with habitat management. Uses such as the development of conservation easements, land acquisition and exchange, conservation education and habitat management are a few examples of the long term and collective opportunities to address habitat conservation from the "big picture", mid-scale perspective.

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Progress: Complete

Maintenance_and_Update_Frequency: None planned

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West_Bounding_Coordinate: -120.977364

East_Bounding_Coordinate: -115.916671

North_Bounding_Coordinate: 46.918401

South_Bounding_Coordinate: 42.751318

Keywords:

Theme:

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Theme_Keyword: Elk

Theme_Keyword: Winter Range

Access_Constraints:

Data from the M.A.P.™ Elk Habitat Project has been made available to state and federal wildlife agency cooperators and partners. This data is not intended for general public distribution or for commercial or private use. Faculty and students attached to educational institutions may gain access to the data by contacting the program coordinator. These requests are handled on a case-by-case basis. The RMEF may allow access to this material from this work, upon written permission, for the purposes of assisting public resource managers and furthering the knowledge of wildlife and habitat management in academic settings.

Use_Constraints:

Copyright© 1999 Rocky Mountain Elk Foundation and its Licensors, exclusive of U.S. Government works. All rights reserved. No part of this work may be reproduced in any form, including via an information storage and retrieval system or transmittal in any form by any means, electronic, mechanical, photocopying, recording or otherwise without prior written permission of the Rocky Mountain Elk Foundation. No derivative work may be created from this work without prior written permission of the Rocky Mountain Elk Foundation. All derivative works shall be the property of the Rocky Mountain Elk Foundation. All requests for permission to reproduce material from this work should be directed to Conservation Programs Director, Rocky Mountain Elk Foundation, P.O. Box 8249, Missoula, MT 59807-8249. The Rocky Mountain Elk Foundation may allow reproduction of material from this work, upon written permission, for the purposes of assisting public resource managers, for furthering the knowledge of wildlife and habitat in academic settings, and for improving habitat management. No material from this work may be reproduced for commercial purposes.

RMEF® , Rocky Mountain Elk Foundation® , and the RMEF logo are registered trademarks of the Rocky Mountain Elk Foundation and may not be used in any way without written permission from the Rocky Mountain Elk Foundation.

Point_of_Contact:

Contact_Information:

Contact_Person_Primary:

Contact_Person: Charley Gobar

Contact_Organization: Umatilla NF, Region 6,

Contact_Position: Forest Wildlife Biologist

Contact_Address:

Address_Type: mailing and physical address

Address: 2517 SW Hailey Ave.

City: Pendlleton

State_or_Province: Oregon

Postal_Code: 97801

Country: USA

Contact_Voice_Telephone: 541.278.3814

Contact_Facsimile_Telephone: 541.278.3730

Contact_Electronic_Mail_Address: cgobar@fs.fed.us

Hours_of_Service: 8-5 M-F

Contact_Instructions: Phone Or Email

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Process_Step:

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Coverage was made from 3 shape files for each state and then clipped to the general area of the Blue Mountain forests

Process_Date: 3/24/2006

Process_Time: unknown

Process_Contact:

Contact_Information:

Contact_Person_Primary:

Contact_Person: Andrew Lacey

Contact_Organization: Umatilla NF, Region 6

Contact_Position: Forest GIS Coordinator

Contact_Address:

Address_Type: mailing and physical address

Address: 2517 SW Hailey Ave.

City: Pendleton

State_or_Province: Oregon

Postal_Code: 97801

Country: USA

Contact_Voice_Telephone: 541.278.3976

Contact_Facsimile_Telephone: 541.278.3730

Contact_Electronic_Mail_Address: alacey@fs.fed.us

Hours_of_Service: 8-5 M-F

Contact_Instructions: Email or Phone

Process_Step:

Process_Description:

Updates were made for elk winter range for the north and south half of the Wallowa Whitman NF. Spatial updates were made by Carolyn Winkler (GIS Specialist) based on corrections made by Tim Schommer (WWNF Wildlife Biologist).

Process_Date: April 2006

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Process_Description: Reprojected to Region 6 Albers NAD83 projection

Process_Date: April 17,2006

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Contact_Person: Andrew Lacey

Contact_Organization: CSA4 -GIS

Contact_Position: GIS Analyst

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Address: 2517 SW Hailey Ave.

City: Pendleton

State_or_Province: Oregon

Postal_Code: 97801

Contact_Voice_Telephone: 541.278.3976

Contact_Facsimile_Telephone: 541.278.3730

Contact_Electronic_Mail_Address: alacey@fs.fed.us

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