SAND SKINK AND BLUE-TAILED (BLUETAIL) MOLE SKINK CONSULTATION AREA

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Identification_Information:
Citation:
Citation_Information:
Originator: U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service
Publication_Date: Unpublished Material
Title:
SAND SKINK AND BLUE-TAILED (BLUETAIL) MOLE SKINK CONSULTATION AREA
Geospatial_Data_Presentation_Form: vector digital data
Publication_Information:
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:
Abstract:
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:
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:
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.
Time_Period_of_Content:
Time_Period_Information:
Single_Date/Time:
Calendar_Date: 20111001
Currentness_Reference: publication date
Status:
Progress: Complete
Maintenance_and_Update_Frequency: As needed
Spatial_Domain:
Bounding_Coordinates:
West_Bounding_Coordinate: -87.429040
East_Bounding_Coordinate: -79.872251
North_Bounding_Coordinate: 30.983191
South_Bounding_Coordinate: 24.492815
Keywords:
Theme:
Theme_Keyword_Thesaurus: NONE
Theme_Keyword:
skink; sand skink; blue-tailed mole skink; bluetail mole skink; Neoseps reynoldsi; Eumeces egregius lividus; Plestiodon reynoldsi; Plestiodon egregius lividus; consultation area
Place:
Place_Keyword:
South Florida; Lake Wales Ridge; Central Ridge; Marion; Putnam; Lake; Orange; Osceola; Polk; Highlands
Access_Constraints:
None, but these data are not to be distributed by anyone other than the USFWS.
Use_Constraints: None
Point_of_Contact:
Contact_Information:
Contact_Organization_Primary:
Contact_Organization: U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service
Contact_Person: Marilyn Knight
Contact_Position: Fish & Wildlife Biologist
Contact_Address:
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:
South Florida Ecological Services Office (SFESO), U.S. Fish & Wildlife Service
Security_Information:
Security_Classification_System: NA
Security_Classification: Unclassified
Security_Handling_Description:
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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Microsoft Windows Vista Version 6.1 (Build 7601) Service Pack 1; ESRI ArcCatalog 9.3.1.4000
Cross_Reference:
Citation_Information:
Other_Citation_Details:
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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GeoPlan relied on the integrity of the attribute information within the original data.
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Attribute_Accuracy_Value: Excellent
Attribute_Accuracy_Explanation:
Deductive estimate. Since the attribute was created by a reliable software (XTools Pro 7.1), it can be assumed that it is correct.
Logical_Consistency_Report:
This data is provided 'as is'. GeoPlan relied on the integrity of the original data layer's topology
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The attributes created by ArcInfo had no defined value within this shapefile and were deleted. XTools pro 7.1 was used to create and update the attribute "ACRES".
Positional_Accuracy:
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Horizontal accuracy is within the national map accuracy standards for 1:24,000 GIS data.
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Source_Information:
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Originator: FGDL
Publication_Date: Unknown
Publication_Time: Unknown
Title: fl-counties-100k
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Series_Name: Florida Counties
Publication_Information:
Publication_Place: FDEP, Tallahassee, FL
Publisher: FDEP
Other_Citation_Details:
Data compiled from source by FGDL and available online.
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Source_Citation_Abbreviation: USFWS
Source_Contribution: Spatial and Attribute Information
Source_Information:
Source_Citation:
Citation_Information:
Originator: Florida Department of Environmental Protection (FDEP)
Publication_Date: 4/9/2002
Publication_Time: Unknown
Title: fl_lakes_areas_fdep
Edition: NA
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Other_Citation_Details: Scale: 24,000
Source_Time_Period_of_Content:
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Calendar_Date: 7/26/2011
Time_of_Day: 14532700
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Source_Contribution: Spatial and Attribute Information
Source_Information:
Source_Citation:
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Title: south_florida-major_hydrology
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Scale: accuracy judged to be 24,000, by overlaying other hydrology layers of the same scale
Source_Citation_Abbreviation: SFESO
Source_Contribution: Spatial and Attribute Information
Source_Information:
Source_Citation:
Citation_Information:
Title: major_roads-fdot
Other_Citation_Details: Scale: 24,000
Source_Time_Period_of_Content:
Time_Period_Information:
Single_Date/Time:
Calendar_Date: April 2006
Source_Currentness_Reference: publication date
Source_Citation_Abbreviation: FDOT
Source_Contribution: Spatial and Attribute Information
Source_Information:
Source_Citation:
Citation_Information:
Publication_Date: 7/31/2001
Publication_Time: Unknown
Title: roads_detail_statewide
Edition: NA
Geospatial_Data_Presentation_Form: vector digital data
Other_Citation_Details:
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>
Scale: 24,000
Online_Linkage:
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Source_Currentness_Reference: ground condition
Source_Citation_Abbreviation: USGS
Source_Contribution: Spatial and Attribute Information
Source_Information:
Source_Citation:
Citation_Information:
Originator: Natural Resources Conservation Service (formerly SCS)
Publication_Date: 1990s
Publication_Time: Unknown
Title: soils-sfwmd.shp
Geospatial_Data_Presentation_Form: vector digital data
Other_Citation_Details:
Individuals at SFWMD who worked on the SSURGO layer development included Mike Rose, Jeff Sullivan, Tim Lieberman, Kurt Saari.
Scale: 24000
Online_Linkage:
\\gisdata1\gislib\vector\district\soil\ssurgo\soil_unit_area\sossrunt
Source_Time_Period_of_Content:
Time_Period_Information:
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Beginning_Date: 1971
Ending_Date: 1998
Source_Currentness_Reference: publication date
Source_Citation_Abbreviation: Natural Resources Conservation Service (formerly SCS)
Source_Contribution: Spatial and Attribute Information
Process_Step:
Process_Description:
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:
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
Process_Step:
Process_Description:
Sand and blue-tailed mole skink occurrence data were checked to make sure all points fell within these bounds.
Process_Step:
Process_Description:
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.
Process_Step:
Process_Description:
The Bombing Range Ridge was also removed because surveys have never documented skinks on this ridge.
Process_Step:
Process_Description:
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).
Process_Step:
Process_Description:
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.
Process_Step:
Process_Description:
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.
Process_Step:
Process_Description:
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 projection: Albers HPGN.
- Added DESCRIPT field - Added FGDLAQDATE - Added ACRES - Added fields OFFICE, CON_ADD, CON_CITY, CON_ZIP, CON_PHONE - Deleted Area and Perimeter
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>
Consultation area polygon was cut using the construct features command in 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
Source_Used_Citation_Abbreviation: GeoPlan
Process_Date: 20120919
Cloud_Cover: NA
Spatial_Data_Organization_Information:
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SDTS_Terms_Description:
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Point_and_Vector_Object_Count: 2
Spatial_Reference_Information:
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Entity_Type:
Entity_Type_Label: CA_SKINK_JUL11
Entity_Type_Definition: CA_SKINK_JUL11.DBF
Entity_Type_Definition_Source: USFWS
Attribute:
Attribute_Label: OBJECTID
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Attribute:
Attribute_Label: OFFICE
Attribute_Definition:
Florida ecological services office responsible for consultation area.
Attribute_Definition_Source: GeoPlan
Attribute:
Attribute_Label: CON_ADD
Attribute_Definition: Office contact address.
Attribute_Definition_Source: GeoPlan
Attribute:
Attribute_Label: CON_CITY
Attribute_Definition: Office contact city.
Attribute_Definition_Source: GeoPlan
Attribute:
Attribute_Label: CON_ZIP
Attribute_Definition: Office contact zip.
Attribute_Definition_Source: GeoPlan
Attribute:
Attribute_Label: CON_PHONE
Attribute_Definition: Office contact phone.
Attribute_Definition_Source: GeoPlan
Attribute:
Attribute_Label: ACRES
Attribute_Definition: Area of polygon in acres.
Attribute_Definition_Source: ESRI
Attribute:
Attribute_Label: DESCRIPT
Attribute_Definition: GeoPlan Calculated Field "Skink Consultation Area"
Attribute_Definition_Source: GeoPlan
Attribute:
Attribute_Label: FGDLAQDATE
Attribute_Definition: Date GeoPlan acquired data.
Attribute_Definition_Source: GeoPlan
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Attribute_Definition: Area in meters
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ACRES calculated by the calculate geometry function in ArcGIS 9.3.1.
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Address: 431 Architecture PO Box 115706
City: Gainesville
State_or_Province: Florida
Postal_Code: 32611-5706
Country: United States
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FGDL Frequently Asked Questions: <http://www.fgdl.org/fgdlfaq.html>
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Network_Resource_Name: consultation_area_20110920
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Contact_Organization_Primary:
Contact_Organization: U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service
Contact_Person: Marilyn Knight
Contact_Position: Fish & Wildlife Biologist
Contact_Address:
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_Electronic_Mail_Address: Marilyn_Knight@fws.gov
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