SAND SKINK AND BLUE-TAILED (BLUETAIL) MOLE SKINK CONSULTATION AREA
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- Citation:
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- Citation_Information:
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- Originator: U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service
- Publication_Date: Unpublished Material
- Title:
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SAND SKINK AND BLUE-TAILED (BLUETAIL) MOLE SKINK CONSULTATION AREA
- Geospatial_Data_Presentation_Form: vector digital data
- Publication_Information:
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- Publication_Place: Vero Beach, FL
- Publisher: U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service
- Other_Citation_Details: State of Florida
- Online_Linkage: <http://www.fws.gov/verobeach/>
- Description:
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- Abstract:
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The skink consultation area is a boundary line developed by the U.S. Fish & Wildlife Service to be used as a guideline for Endangered Species Act consultation to direct section 7 and section 10 applicants to geographic locations where impacts to sand and blue-tailed mole skinks are most likely to occur, based upon suitable soils at appropriate elevations in the counties of occurrence of the species in central Florida.
- Purpose:
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Geographic Information System (GIS) data for the consultation area
boundary for sand and blue-tailed mole skinks. The current consultation
area map was developed to replace the 2003 consultation area map
with an objectively-derived, revised version using the same biological
information and data upon which the revised skink survey protocol is
based. The consultation area boundary also needed to be understandable
for ease of use (i.e., follow county lines or existing landscape features
where possible).
- Supplemental_Information:
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Endangered Species Act consultation may be needed outside of the
consultation area boundary if suitable soils for skinks are present at
elevations at or above 82 feet above mean sea level or if either of
these listed skinks or their sign are detected.
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- Calendar_Date: 20111001
- Currentness_Reference: publication date
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- Progress: Complete
- Maintenance_and_Update_Frequency: As needed
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- West_Bounding_Coordinate: -87.429040
- East_Bounding_Coordinate: -79.872251
- North_Bounding_Coordinate: 30.983191
- South_Bounding_Coordinate: 24.492815
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skink; sand skink; blue-tailed mole skink; bluetail mole skink; Neoseps reynoldsi; Eumeces egregius lividus; Plestiodon reynoldsi; Plestiodon egregius lividus; consultation area
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- Place_Keyword:
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South Florida; Lake Wales Ridge; Central Ridge; Marion; Putnam; Lake; Orange; Osceola; Polk; Highlands
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None, but these data are not to be distributed by anyone other than the USFWS.
- Use_Constraints: None
- Point_of_Contact:
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- Contact_Information:
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- Contact_Organization_Primary:
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- Contact_Organization: U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service
- Contact_Person: Marilyn Knight
- Contact_Position: Fish & Wildlife Biologist
- Contact_Address:
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- Address_Type: mailing and physical address
- Address: South Florida Ecological Services Office, 1339 20th Street
- City: Vero Beach
- State_or_Province: Florida
- Postal_Code: 32960
- Country: USA
- Contact_Voice_Telephone: 772-562-3909
- Contact_Facsimile_Telephone: 772-562-4288
- Contact_Electronic_Mail_Address: Marilyn_Knight@fws.gov
- Hours_of_Service: M-F 8-4:30 ET
- Data_Set_Credit:
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South Florida Ecological Services Office (SFESO), U.S. Fish & Wildlife Service
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These data shall be obtained directly from the appropriate USFWS (see Section 6.1 Distributor) office or official USFWS internet web page for South Florida Ecological Services Office (<http://www.fws.gov/verobeach/>), when available. These data are not to be distributed by anyone other than the USFWS.
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Ecological services office areas of responsibility:
<http://www.fws.gov/northflorida/documents/USFWS_FL_ES_Office_Service_Areas.pdf>
South Florida ESO:
<http://www.fws.gov/verobeach/>
North Florida ESO:
<http://www.fws.gov/northflorida/>
Panama City ESO:
<http://www.fws.gov/PanamaCity/>
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- Publication_Place: FDEP, Tallahassee, FL
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Data compiled from source by FGDL and available online.
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The USGS has updated most quadrangles using 1994/1995 Digital Orthophoto Quads, however, some quadrangles in roadless or very rural areas have not been updated.
Additional details on this data set can be found at <http://rockyweb.cr.usgs.gov/nmpstds/dlgstds.html>
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- Originator: Natural Resources Conservation Service (formerly SCS)
- Publication_Date: 1990s
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Individuals at SFWMD who worked on the SSURGO layer development included Mike Rose, Jeff Sullivan, Tim Lieberman, Kurt Saari.
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The skink consultation boundary was developed using counties where
skinks occur (Putnam, Marion, Lake, Orange, Osceola, Highlands, Polk),
elevation above sea level, and soils (Apopka, Arredondo, Archbold, Astatula,
Candler, Daytona, Duette, Florahome, Gainesville, Hague, Kendrick, Lake,
Millhopper, Orsino, Paola, Pomello, Satellite, St. Lucie, Tavares, Zuber).
The layer of suitable skink soils (derived from "soils-sfwmd" layer) at elevations
at or above 82 feet was merged with the published Lake Wales Ridge (LWR)
boundary layer (Weekley et al. 2008).
- Source_Used_Citation_Abbreviation:
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Weekley, C.W., E.S. Menges, and R.L Pickert. 2008. An ecological map of Florida’s Lake Wales Ridge: A new boundary delineation and an assessment of post-Columbian habitat loss. Florida Scientist 71:45-64
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Sand and blue-tailed mole skink occurrence data were checked to make
sure all points fell within these bounds.
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Outlier skink soils were removed from this layer (individual polygons or
groups of polygons that were >2 km from other skink soils). These totaled
136 polygons.
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The Bombing Range Ridge was also removed because surveys have
never documented skinks on this ridge.
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The revised baseline boundary for the skink consultation area was then
developed using Hawth's Tools. Specifically, the input layer (skink soils
at appropriate elevation merged with the LWR boundary) was converted
to points. A fixed kernel analysis (bivariate normal, 100m grid) was used
to create a raster distribution layer of the input point layer, and then a
'percent volume contour' boundary (parameter - 100%) was derived from
the raster layer. The fixed kernel analysis generated a line around 1) all
suitable soils at appropriate elevation, and 2) the LWR boundary, to create
a line that included 100% of the data (minus the outliers).
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Where the baseline boundary crossed over into counties where skinks
have never been documented, those counties were removed from the
baseline boundary. This resulted in most of the western edge of the
baseline boundary being along the county line.
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Because much of the eastern baseline boundary line was not located along
county lines or physical features on the landscape that could be used to
easily discern whether a particular site was "in" or "out" of the consultation
area, this line was moved out to a road, county line, or lake. To do this,
FDOT's "major_roads" layer was used if primary roads were relatively close
to the baseline boundary. If few primary roads were close to the baseline
boundary, the "detailed_roads" layer for the county of interest was added
and the line was drawn to the nearest road in this layer (within reason- there
were cases where it made more sense to follow a straight road rather than
having the line curve excessively along secondary roads if the straight road
was still very close to the baseline boundary). Note: There were a few locations
where the baseline boundary was drawn slightly inside of the fixed kernel line
but only if the road was very close to the fixed kernel line. Otherwise, the
baseline boundary is just outside of the fixed kernel boundary. A few portions
of the baseline boundary were drawn to the edges of lakes rather than to
roads or county lines. The "south_florida-major_hydrology" layer was used
for lake boundaries where they occurred close to the baseline boundary
from Highlands County north through Orange County. Because this hydrology
layer did not include lakes in North Florida, the "fl_lakes_ares_fdep" layer
was used for the lake in Putnam County that was near enough to the baseline
boundary to be taken out of the consultation area.
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GeoPlan received this dataset from the United States Fish and
Wildlife Service via email on September 7, 2012. The data
downloaded was in shapefile format and was in the following
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- Added FGDLAQDATE
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Ecological services office associated with consultation area was derived
using info provided at:
<http://www.fws.gov/northflorida/documents/USFWS_FL_ES_Office_Service_Areas.pdf>
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ArcMap to represent which ecological services office serves that particular area.
Features were then dissolved on the field office.
Layer was renamed ca_skink from skinks-consultation_area
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Florida ecological services office responsible for consultation area.
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