LA MS CDN Protection Decision Support Tool

<p>FOR non-AGOL ACCOUNT HOLDERS, DOWNLOAD THIS GEOSPATIAL DATA HERE: </p><p>https://gis-fws.opendata.arcgis.com/search?tags=lmvjv<br /></p><p>The Forest Protection DST of the LA MS CDN is constructed to help partners define a strategy for identifying and addressing delivery priorities in the Network area, particularly related to protection of extant forest. The DST combines best available landscape design data in the Mississippi Alluvial Valley that collectively consider multiple priorities for bottomland hardwood protection - Ducks Unlimited's Land Protection Model and the LMVJV's Forest Protection Model. This DST revision incorporates both updated data and newly revised data in this dual modeling
approach. The incorporated data models include:  newly updated DU MAV Land
Protection Model (2015) and newly created MAV
LA MS
MAV
CDN Forest Protection Model (Lower MS Valley Joint Venture, 2019). Although inputs used in the
revision are considered the highest resolution data (30m x 30m pixels) available, and fully
consistent with landscape level conservation uses, final outputs are actually presented in the form
of priority clusters or neighborhoods, produced through GIS focal neighborhood analysis. Since
conservation activities do not typically occur at scales as small as 900 meters2 (or less than one-quarter acre), utilizing neighborhood analysis
is helpful for finding where high priority
pixels are more densely associated. Thus, the
approach better assists in identifying priority
areas where conservation actions might be
focused as oppose to working with or
attempting to target priority pixels.
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