Riparian Conservation Authority Rasters, Okanogan County, WA, USA

These raster datasets were generated and analyzed during the study described in "Mapping legal authority for riparian conservation corridors" (manuscript under review). Each source of streamside conservation authority was mapped as a feature class (polygon) and then converted to raster, such that pixel values in each raster correspond to the conservation authority index (CAI) value associated with the respective source of authority. We used these rasters to generate a legal-ecological resistance surface for least-cost corridor computation.