MoRAP - University of Missouri
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Columbia, MO 65201
(573) 876-1834
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Eastern Tallgrass Prairie Bird Conservation Region
   
Eastern Tallgrass Prairie Bird Conservation Region
The Eastern Tallgrass Prairie Bird Conservation Region is one of the 67 BCR's across North America identified by the four major bird initiatives and their conservation partners under the auspices of the North American Bird Conservation Initiative (NABCI). MoRAP will (A) create a turnkey geographic information system with appropriate primary data layers for evaluating conservation alternatives, and (B) analyze primary data layers in order to suggest landscape priorities and spatially explicit target conservation opportunity areas.
MoRAP will analyze data layers in order to suggest landscape priorities and spatially explicit target conservation opportunity areas and provide a geographic information system (GIS) for evaluating conservation alternatives.
We created a turn-key GIS for the US FWS. This included the development of data that can be analyzed in a flexible way to identify priority landscapes and creation of an abiotic site type data layer and associated base data using digital elevation models. Data were provided via CD and we briefed US FWS staff on their utility.