NH Wildlife Connectivity

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Originator: New Hampshire Fish and Game Department
Publication_Date: 20211025
Title: NH Wildlife Connectivity
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Originator: NH Fish and Game Department
Publication_Date: 20211025
Title: NH Wildlife Connectivity
Description:
Abstract:
The NH Wildlife Connectivity Model is a basic, GIS-based, landscape permeability model that predicts broad-scale wildlife connectivity zones across the state.
This analysis can identify both key areas for land protection efforts and strategic locations for restoring connectivity in currently fragmented landscapes.
Purpose:
Wildlife move to meet their needs such as finding food, reproducing, migrating between winter and summer habitats, and dispersing to a new territory.
A wildlife corridor is a habitat linkage that joins two or more areas of wildlife habitat, allowing for fish passage or the movement of wildlife from one area to another.
The NH Wildlife Connectivity Model is a basic, GIS-based, landscape permeability model that predicts broad-scale wildlife connectivity zones across the state.
This analysis can identify both key areas for land protection efforts and strategic locations for restoring connectivity in currently fragmented landscapes.
Resistance curves were used to model intense, moderate, and mild effects of distance from roads, land cover, slope, and distance from riparian areas.
Sixteen species were chosen to represent a range of variation in dispersal behavior. Relative influence of the four landscape factors was determined based on literature review;
and final scoring was peer-reviewed by biologists familiar with the species.
Supplemental_Information:
Wildlife corridors are critical for the conservation of wildlife in New Hampshire. The loss of wildlife corridors may impact species and populations through direct mortality, habitat fragmentation, and creating barriers to dispersal. More specifically, mortality can affect the dispersal and viability of isolated populations, and eventually cause the loss of local populations. At greatest risk are slow-moving species (e.g., reptiles and amphibians), species that depend on high adult survivorship (e.g. turtle species), species that are long range dispersers (e.g. bobcats, American martens), and species with scarce populations (e.g. timber rattlesnakes). Large mammals crossing roadways (e.g., black bear, moose, and deer), although not likely to have population level impacts, cause safety concerns for motorists.
The NH Wildlife Corridors map shows potential corridors that connect core areas of wildlife habitat and can be used by conservation planners, landowners, land trusts, biologists, and others. The core areas of wildlife habitat are areas over 50 acres in size that are a priority in the New Hampshire Wildlife Action Plan (Highest Ranked Habitat in NH and/or Highest Ranked Habitat in Biological Regions).
To create the map, first areas of wildlife movement and dispersal were identified using the NH Wildlife Connectivity Model (2006, 2010, 2016, 2020; see below). Then Linkage Mapper (a GIS tool developed by The Nature Conservancy for habitat connectivity analyses) was used to map connections between core wildlife habitats. Finally, the corridors where wildlife are predicted to most easily move, especially riparian corridors, were selected. This resulted in the 2021 NH Wildlife Corridors Map.
Preliminary validation of the NH wildlife connectivity model utilized available data from tracking and telemetry studies. Visual assessment of these data provided a sufficient level of confidence in the model to accept the resulting cost surface for general conservation planning purposes. Land cover data is based on 10m resolution NH Wildlife Action Plan habitat dataset, based on 2016 NOAA C-CAP high res land cover. Traffic volume provided by: McGarigal K, Compton BW, Plunkett EB, DeLuca WV, and Grand J. 2018. Designing sustainable landscapes: traffic metric. Report to the North Atlantic Conservation Cooperative, US Fish and Wildlife Service, Northeast Region.
NH Wildlife Corridors shows core areas of wildlife habitat (areas over 50 acres in size that are a priority in the New Hampshire Wildlife Action Plan) and connecting corridors.
Output is not actual locations of known wildlife corridors, but a display of how a model of habitat suitability and movement behavior translates into patterns of landscape connectivity. It is strongly encouraged that users incorporate best available local data sources and ground-truth results of corridor analyses, which is essential for identifying critical connectivity zones.
For more information please refer to NH Fish & Game's web site URL http://www.wildlife.state.nh.us/nongame/corridors.html
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Calendar_Date: 20211025
Currentness_Reference: publication date
Status:
Progress: Complete
Maintenance_and_Update_Frequency: As needed
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East_Bounding_Coordinate: -70.737992
North_Bounding_Coordinate: 45.105472
South_Bounding_Coordinate: 42.694173
Keywords:
Theme:
Theme_Keyword_Thesaurus: ISO 19115 Topic Category
Theme_Keyword: biota
Theme_Keyword: environment
Theme:
Theme_Keyword_Thesaurus: None
Theme_Keyword: habitat
Theme_Keyword: wildlife
Theme_Keyword: WAP
Theme_Keyword: Wildlife Action Plan
Place:
Place_Keyword_Thesaurus: None
Place_Keyword: United States
Place_Keyword: Northeast
Place_Keyword: New England
Place_Keyword: New Hampshire
Place_Keyword: NH
Place_Keyword: New Hampshire
Access_Constraints: None
Use_Constraints:
Intended for general planning purposes. Use and analysis of geographic data are limited by the scale at which the data are collected and mapped, and by means of interpolation and other modeling procedures used in preparation of the data. The data were prepared with spatial models that used data at multiple scales and are time-limited. The user is advised of these complications. NHFG and the conservation partners for the WAP do not warrant the completeness or accuracy of the data nor make claim to any implied uses of the data.
Point_of_Contact:
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Contact_Organization_Primary:
Contact_Organization: New Hampshire Fish and Game Department
Contact_Person: Wildlife Division
Contact_Address:
Address_Type: mailing and physical address
Address: 11 Hazen Dr
City: Concord
State_or_Province: NH
Postal_Code: 03301-6500
Country: USA
Contact_Voice_Telephone: (603) 271-2461
Contact_Electronic_Mail_Address: wildlife@wildlife.nh.gov
Data_Set_Credit: NH Fish and Game Department, Wildlife Division
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Contact_Information:
Contact_Organization_Primary:
Contact_Organization: Complex Systems Research Center, University of New Hampshire
Contact_Person: GRANIT Database Manager
Contact_Address:
Address_Type: mailing and physical address
Address: Morse Hall, University of New Hamsphire
City: Durham
State_or_Province: NH
Postal_Code: 03824
Country: USA
Contact_Voice_Telephone: 603-862-1792
Contact_Electronic_Mail_Address: granit@unh.edu
Resource_Description: Downloadable Data
Distribution_Liability:
Use and analysis of geographic data are limited by the scale at which the data are collected and mapped, and by means of interpolation and other modeling procedures used in preparation of the data. The WAP data were prepared with spatial models that used data at multiple scales and are time-limited. The user is advised of these complications. NHFGD and the conservation partners for the WAP do not warrant the completeness or accuracy of the data nor make claim to any implied uses of the data.
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Fees: None
Metadata_Reference_Information:
Metadata_Date: 20211025
Metadata_Review_Date: 20220407
Metadata_Future_Review_Date: 20221231
Metadata_Contact:
Contact_Information:
Contact_Organization_Primary:
Contact_Organization: New Hampshire Fish and Game Department
Contact_Person: GIS Coordinator
Contact_Address:
Address_Type: mailing and physical address
Address: 11 Hazen Dr
City: Concord
State_or_Province: NH
Postal_Code: 03301-6500
Country: USA
Contact_Voice_Telephone: (603) 271-3014
Contact_Electronic_Mail_Address: Catherine.Callahan@doit.nh.gov
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