NJDEP Terrestrial Wildlife Habitat Stepping Stones in New Jersey, Edition 20181101 (Envr_CHANJ_stepping_stones)

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Citation:
Citation_Information:
Originator: New Jersey Department of Environmental Protection (NJDEP)
Publication_Date: 20181101
Title:
NJDEP Terrestrial Wildlife Habitat Stepping Stones in New Jersey, Edition 20181101 (Envr_CHANJ_stepping_stones)
Geospatial_Data_Presentation_Form: vector digital data
Other_Citation_Details:
Our CHANJ website (www.chanj.nj.gov) provides more information about the project, including additional tools, a tutorial, species information, etc.
Online_Linkage: https://www.nj.gov/dep/gis
Description:
Abstract:
Animals need to be able to move through the landscape to find food, mates, and other resources. Without that ability to move, long-term viability of populations is in jeopardy. New Jersey is facing increasing habitat loss and fragmentation from steady urbanization, a dense network of roads, and a changing climate that are compromising the connectivity of habitat and resiliency of wildlife populations. Connecting Habitat Across New Jersey (CHANJ) represents a statewide habitat connectivity plan, developed in collaboration with a multi-partner, multi-disciplinary working group representing over 40 different agencies across the state, convened by the ENSP to address the importance of landscape permeability for the persistence of native terrestrial wildlife species. CHANJ mapping identifies core terrestrial wildlife habitat and corridors connecting them across the state, as well as intersecting road segments that serve as road barrier mitigation opportunities. The mapping is based on a naturalness index approach, and utilized core and corridor delineation GIS toolsets, Core Mapper and Linkage Mapper (www.circuitscape.org). Terrestrial species location data were used to inform model parameters and for validation. The Stepping Stones mapping was developed using the same methodology used to develop the CHANJ Cores, but with a smaller minimum threshold area size and are meant to help with connectivity planning by identifying areas within CHANJ Corridors that are more intact than others and may “live in” habitat for smaller, less vagile terrestrial wildlife species. The mapping was developed using raster data (10m grid cell size), and then converted to polygons for the final product.
Purpose:
The CHANJ project represents a strategic plan for wildlife conservation that delineates and provides a common vision for a connected statewide landscape that, if protected and appropriately managed, will restore and maintain gene flow between viable breeding populations of terrestrial, native wildlife species, helping to ensure their long-term viability in New Jersey. CHANJ not only delineates a connected landscape, but also provides recommendations and resources for the actions needed to preserve and restore habitat connectivity for terrestrial wildlife in New Jersey. This initiative is designed to help 1) prioritize land protection, 2) inform habitat restoration and management, and 3) guide mitigation of barrier impacts on wildlife and habitats. We formed a multi-partner, multi-disciplinary working group to inform the development of this project that will help target local, regional, and state planning efforts and ultimately reconnect the landscape in New Jersey. The CHANJ products are intended to allow land-use, conservation, and transportation planners to operate in a more collaborative way, leveraging New Jersey’s open space investment, increasing road safety, increasing permit efficiency, and ultimately improving the prospects for the long-term sustainability of New Jersey’s terrestrial wildlife. More information about CHANJ, including a short promotional video, can be found at www.chanj.nj.gov.
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Calendar_Date: 20180201
Currentness_Reference: publication date
Status:
Progress: In work
Maintenance_and_Update_Frequency: As needed
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West_Bounding_Coordinate: -75.562661
East_Bounding_Coordinate: -73.914848
North_Bounding_Coordinate: 41.35209
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Keywords:
Theme:
Theme_Keyword_Thesaurus: ISO 19115 Topic Categories
Theme_Keyword: biota
Theme:
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Theme_Keyword: New Jersey
Theme_Keyword: NJDEP
Theme_Keyword: CHANJ
Theme_Keyword: Stepping Stones
Theme_Keyword: Terrestrial Wildlife Habitat
Place:
Place_Keyword_Thesaurus: None
Place_Keyword: New Jersey
Access_Constraints: None
Use_Constraints:
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Point_of_Contact:
Contact_Information:
Contact_Organization_Primary:
Contact_Organization:
Division of Fish and Wildlife, Endangered & Nongame Species Program
Contact_Person: Gretchen Fowles
Contact_Position: Geographic Information Systems Specialist
Contact_Address:
Address_Type: mailing
Address: 1 Van Syckels Rd
City: Clinton
State_or_Province: New Jersey
Postal_Code: 08809
Country: US
Contact_Voice_Telephone: 908-638-4682
Contact_Electronic_Mail_Address: Gretchen.Fowles@dep.nj.gov
Data_Quality_Information:
Logical_Consistency_Report:
BGIS did topological testing of a subset of draft data they reviewed and found no issues. The same methodology to generate the statewide mapping.
Completeness_Report:
Completeness report per source Source 1: The LULC was filtered to create 3 different layers used throughout the core modeling process: 1) wildlife habitat, 2) urban, 3) wetlands Source 2: Select LU12 categories representing urban areas were removed from the Landscape Project Version 3.3 Riparian Corridor. Source 3: New Jersey Integrated Terrain Unit Maps (ITUM) Flood Prone Areas - all areas coded as “1 USGS Documented Flood-prone Area” or “8 Water” Source 4: Flood Map - all areas coded as A, AE, AH, AO, Open Water, VE Source 5: NRCS SSURGO soil survey data - all soils defined as “hydric” Source 7: NJDOT State Railroad Lines Freight used in full. NJDOT State Railroad Lines Abandoned were overlaid and erased by trails to eliminate abandoned rails that have been converted to trails. Source 8: NJ-LongDistanceTrails were overlaid on NJDOT State Railroad Lines Abandoned to remove the abandoned rails that have been converted to trails. Source 9: NJ Road Network linked to AADT_flow table from DOT and selected those roads with values >10,000 aadt to create high volume roads. Source 11: Terrestrial wildlife species location data with observation dates between 2009 and 2015 and with precision of <50m.
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Originator: New Jersey Department of Environmental Protection (NJDEP)
Publication_Date: 20150217
Title: NJDEP 2012 Land Use/Land Cover Update
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Publication_Information:
Publisher: New Jersey Department of Environmental Protection
Publication_Place: Trenton, NJ
Online_Linkage: https://www.nj.gov/dep/gis
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Source_Contribution: Used as a component of the base layer for the core modeling.
Source_Information:
Source_Citation:
Citation_Information:
Originator: New Jersey Department of Environmental Protection (NJDEP)
Publication_Date: 2015
Title: Landscape Project Version 3.3 Riparian Corridor
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Publication_Information:
Publisher: NJDEP
Publication_Place: Trenton, NJ
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Originator: New Jersey Department of Environmental Protection (NJDEP), USGS
Publication_Date: 2015
Title:
New Jersey Integrated Terrain Unit Maps (ITUM) Flood Prone Areas
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Publication_Information:
Publisher: NJDEP
Publication_Place: Trenton, NJ
Online_Linkage: https://www.nj.gov/dep/gis
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Source_Contribution: Used as a component of the base layer for the core modeling.
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Originator: Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA)
Publication_Date: 2015
Title: Flood Map
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Publisher: FEMA
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Originator:
United States Department of Agriculture Natural Resources Conservation Service
Publication_Date: 2015
Title: NRCS SSURGO soil survey data
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Publisher: USDA
Publication_Place: Washington, DC
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Source_Contribution: Used as a component of the base layer for the core modeling.
Source_Information:
Source_Citation:
Citation_Information:
Originator:
NJ Transit, New Jersey Office of Information Technology (OIT), Office of GIS (OGIS)
Publication_Date: 2015
Title: NJ Passenger Rails
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Publication_Information:
Publisher:
New Jersey Office of Information Technology (OIT), Office of GIS (OGIS)
Publication_Place: Trenton, NJ
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Source_Information:
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Citation_Information:
Originator: New Jersey Department of Transportation (DOT)
Publication_Date: 2016
Title: NJDOT State Railroad Lines: Abandoned and Freight
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Publication_Information:
Publisher: NJDEP
Publication_Place: Trenton, NJ
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Source_Information:
Source_Citation:
Citation_Information:
Originator: New York-New Jersey Trail Conference
Publication_Date: 2014
Title: NJ - Long Distance Trails
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Publication_Information:
Publisher: New York-New Jersey Trail Conference
Publication_Place: Mahwah, NJ
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Source_Contribution: Used as a component of the base layer for the core modeling.
Source_Information:
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Citation_Information:
Originator: New Jersey Department of Transportation (DOT)
Publication_Date: 2014
Title: NJ Road Network
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Publisher: NJDEP
Publication_Place: Trenton, NJ
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Source_Information:
Source_Citation:
Citation_Information:
Originator:
New Jersey Office of Information Technology (OIT), Office of GIS (OGIS) / New Jersey Department of Transportation (DOT)
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Title: NJ Road Centerlines
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Publication_Information:
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New Jersey Office of Information Technology (OIT), Office of GIS (OGIS)
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Source_Contribution: Used to help inform inputs for the core modeling.
Source_Information:
Source_Citation:
Citation_Information:
Originator:
State of New Jersey Department of Environmental Protection (NJDEP), Division of Fish and Wildlife (DFW)
Publication_Date: 2015
Title:
Terrestrial wildlife species location data from internal DFW species databases
Geospatial_Data_Presentation_Form: vector digital data
Publication_Information:
Publisher: NJDEP
Publication_Place: Trenton, NJ
Online_Linkage: None
Type_of_Source_Media: online
Source_Time_Period_of_Content:
Time_Period_Information:
Single_Date/Time:
Calendar_Date: 2014
Source_Currentness_Reference: publication date
Source_Citation_Abbreviation: Source 11
Source_Contribution: Used as a component of the base layer for the core modeling.
Process_Step:
Process_Date: 20180726
Process_Contact:
Contact_Information:
Contact_Organization_Primary:
Contact_Organization:
Division of Fish and Wildlife, Endangered & Nongame Species Program
Contact_Person: Gretchen Fowles
Contact_Position: Geographic Information Systems Specialist
Contact_Address:
Address_Type: mailing
Address: 1 Van Syckels Rd
City: Clinton
State_or_Province: New Jersey
Postal_Code: 08809
Country: US
Contact_Voice_Telephone: 908-638-4682
Contact_Electronic_Mail_Address: Gretchen.Fowles@dep.nj.gov
Process_Description:
The Stepping Stones layer identifies terrestrial wildlife habitat small cores that intersect CHANJ Corridors. It was developed by first creating a raster base habitat layer statewide with values from 0 (non-habitat) to 1 (habitat). The components of the base layer were: A) LULC classes coded as Habitat (1), Marginal Habitat (0.5), and Non-Habitat (0), and B) Wetlands/Riparian Habitat (1) composed of the Landscape Project Riparian Corridor, Flood Prone areas, Hydric soils, and LULC Wetlands, with LULC Urban removed. The two layers were combined with the maximum value of the cell kept. Next, Railroads (0), and Roads (0) were added in, taking the minimum cell value. Core Mapper (in the Gnarly Landscape Utilities ArcGIS toolbox (<http://www.circuitscape.org/gnarly-landscape-utilities>) was used to model core areas. The inputs for the modeling included: 1) the base habitat layer, 2) a moving window radius of 100m, which represents the 75th percentile of average home range sizes of the small, low mobility target CHANJ species, 3) a minimum average habitat value of 0.88, which was informed by analyses of species location data and their average habitat values, 4) county roads, highways, and interstates as core barriers, and 5) a minimum core threshold size of 12.56 ha, which represents the 75th percentile of average home range sizes of the small, low mobility CHANJ species. Further refinement included removing core areas that did not meet the minimum threshold size after subtracting out area of Marginal Habitat and open water or that were >78.5ha. Only core areas that intersected with CHANJ Corridors and that did not have their centroid in CHANJ Cores were retained in the final Stepping Stones layer. The resultant Stepping Stones were converted to polygons for the final product.
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Entity_and_Attribute_Information:
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Entity_Type_Definition: CHANJ Stepping Stones
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Sequential unique whole numbers that are automatically generated.
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Terrestrial wildlife habitat small cores that intersect CHANJ Corridors
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Website link to the appropriate section of the CHANJ Guidance Document that provides the most appropriate guidance for that type of area.
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Metadata_Reference_Information:
Metadata_Date: 20181101
Metadata_Contact:
Contact_Information:
Contact_Organization_Primary:
Contact_Organization:
Division of Fish and Wildlife, Endangered & Nongame Species Program
Contact_Person: Gretchen Fowles
Contact_Position: Geographic Information Systems Specialist
Contact_Address:
Address_Type: mailing
Address: 1 Van Syckels Rd
City: Clinton
State_or_Province: New Jersey
Postal_Code: 08809
Country: US
Contact_Voice_Telephone: 908-638-4682
Contact_Electronic_Mail_Address: Gretchen.Fowles@dep.nj.gov
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