Total Score HUC 12 SageBrush Core and Growth and BRAT

<div style='text-align:Left; font-size:12pt;'><p><span>This layer creates a total mesic restoration potential score.  Total score of 1 is lowest priority and 10 is highest priority. The score is composed of 2 sub scores described below.</span></p><p></p><p><span style='font-size:12.0pt; font-family:&quot;inherit&quot;,serif; color:#242424; border:none windowtext 1.0pt; padding:0in; background:white;'></span></p><p><span style='font-size:12pt; font-family:&quot;inherit&quot;, serif; color:rgb(36, 36, 36); border:1pt none windowtext; padding:0in; background-image:initial; background-position:initial; background-size:initial; background-repeat:initial; background-attachment:initial; background-origin:initial; background-clip:initial;'>For both Planning and Site Level work, this layer includes polygons showcasing the percentage of each Idaho HUC (8 or 12) in Sagebrush
Core and Growth categories based on the Sagebrush Conservation Design.  These HUCs are divided into 5 equal intervals
0-20%, 20-40%, 40-60%, 60-80%, and 80-100% and symbolized, with dark colors
showing more sagebrush core and growth. 
In addition, they are scored 1-5 with 1 signifying HUCs averaging the
least amount of Sagebrush per HUC and 5 being areas averaging the most
Sagebrush per HUC. </span></p><p><span style='font-size:12.0pt; font-family:&quot;inherit&quot;,serif; color:#242424; border:none windowtext 1.0pt; padding:0in; background:white;'>The Beaver Restoration
Assessment Tool (BRAT) downloads for the state of Idaho were incorporated into the analysis.<span>  </span>The results for
perennial streams were queried to include only the streams categorized in the
BRAT analysis as Easiest- low hanging fruit, or Straightforward with the
purpose of selecting streams where it might be easiest to provide process-based
restoration.<span>  </span><span> </span>After the BRAT data was filtered on these
categories it was clipped to find only the streams that were falling within
Sagebrush Core and Growth areas or a 500ft buffer of Core and Growth Areas.<span>  </span>The resulting BRAT streams that fit these two
criteria – in Easiest or Straightforward areas and within a 500ft boundary of
Sagebrush Core and Growth areas were summed based on stream miles per HUC.<span>  </span>They were binned into 5 categories using
Quantile and scored 1-5 with the HUCs having the most stream miles for
potential restoration receiving a 5, and those with the least stream miles
receiving a 1. <span>  </span>These steps were taking
for both HUC 8 and HUC12. </span></p><span></span><p></p></div>