FLORIDA GEOGRAPHIC DATA LIBRARY DOCUMENTATION

TITLE: CRITICAL HABITAT (LINE) DESIGNATED BY US FISH & WILDLIFE SERVICE IN FLORIDA - 2019 

Geodataset Name:       CH_USFWS_LINE_AUG19
Geodataset Type:       SHAPEFILE
Geodataset Feature:    Polyline
Feature Count:         16
GENERAL DESCRIPTION:
This dataset contains critical habitat (line) designated by the U.S. Fish & Wildlife Service for endangered or threatened species located within the State of Florida. When a species is proposed for listing as endangered or threatened under the Endangered Species Act, the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service must consider whether there are areas of habitat believed to be essential the species conservation. Those areas may be proposed for designation as critical habitat. Critical habitat is a term defined and used in the Act. It is a specific geographic area(s) that contains features essential for the conservation of a threatened or endangered species and that may require special management and protection. Critical habitat may include an area that is not currently occupied by the species but that will be needed for its recovery. An area is designated as critical habitat after the Service publishes a proposed Federal regulation in the Federal Register and receives and considers public comments on the proposal. The final boundaries of the critical habitat are also published in the Federal Register. 
DATA SOURCE(S):                    U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service
SCALE OF ORIGINAL SOURCE MAPS:     Varies
GEODATASET EXTENT:                 State of Florida

PUBLICATION DATE:                  20190816
TIME PERIOD OF CONTENT:            Begin Date: 19660101    End Date: 20190813
DOWNLOAD LINK:                     http://www.fgdl.org/metadataexplorer/explorer.jsp

FEATURE ATTRIBUTE TABLES: 

Datafile Name: CH_USFWS_LINE_AUG19.DBF
ITEM NAME WIDTH TYPE
OBJECTID
4 OID
Shape
4 Geometry
SINGLMULTI
254 String
COMNAME
200 String
SCINAME
200 String
SPCODE
4 String
VIPCODE
3 String
UNIT
254 String
STATUS
254 String
LEADOFFICE
8 Double
FEDREG
254 String
PUBDATE
254 String
SOURCE_ID
8 Double
LISTING_ST
100 String
DESCRIPT
50 String
FGDLAQDATE
36 Date
AUTOID
4 Integer
SHAPE.LEN
0 Double

FEATURE ATTRIBUTE TABLES CODES AND VALUES:

Item

Item Description





OBJECTID

Internal feature number.
















Shape

Feature geometry.
















SINGLMULTI

No Description Available.
















COMNAME

Legal common name of the species
















SCINAME

Binomial or trinomial scientific name
















SPCODE

Unique Species Code referencing the species for the critical habitat being submitted
















VIPCODE

Unique Population Code referencing the species for the critical habitat being submitted
















UNIT

Critical Habitat unit code described in the Federal Register document.
















STATUS

Code designating species status




Final = Final Critical Habitat

Proposed = Proposed Critical Habitat

Exempt / Excluded = Exempt (4a3) or Excluded (4b2)

Vacated = Vacated by court order













LEADOFFICE

Lead office cost center code used by the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service
















FEDREG

Federal Register ID
















PUBDATE

Federal Register publication date
















SOURCE_ID

A unique identifier used only for internal purposes.
















LISTING_ST

A species is listed under one of two categories, endangered species or threatened species, depending on its status and the degree of threat it faces.




Endangered = Any species that is in danger of extinction throughout all or a significant portion of its range.

Resolved Taxon = Species that have been petitioned for listing and for which a Not Warranted 12 month finding or Not Substantial 90-day finding has been published in the Federal Register. Also includes species that have been removed from the candidate list.

Threatened = Any species that is likely to become an endangered species within the foreseeable future throughout all or a significant portion of its range.













DESCRIPT

GeoPlan added field based on COMNAME.
















FGDLAQDATE

The date FGDL acquired the data from the Source.
















AUTOID

Unique ID added by GeoPlan
















SHAPE.LEN

Length in meters






















The entity and attribute information provided here describes the tabular data 
associated with the data set. Please review the detailed descriptions that are 
provided (the individual attribute descriptions) for information on the values that 
appear as fields/table entries of the data set.






USER NOTES:








Polygon and chain-node topology are present. Every polygon has a label.













Features represented have not been tested for completeness













GeoPlan relied on the integrity of the attribute information within
the original data.













All data were developed by FWS field offices. 
For data-specific questions, please refer to the individual shapefiles. 
No data alterations are made by ECOS.

U.S. Fish & Wildlife Service
ECOS Environmental Conservation Online System
https://ecos.fws.gov/ecp/report/table/critical-habitat.html

This page contains the spatial data for active proposed and final critical habitat for 
FWS only and Joint FWS/NMFS threatened and endangered species. ECOS is a 
FWS-sponsored platform for FWS data. The ECOS critical habitat on-line mapper 
includes (some, not all of the) proposed and final critical habitat for species listed as 
Threatened and Endangered by the FWS, or that are jointly managed by 
FWS/NMFS. The on-line mapper does not include species which are under the 
sole jurisdiction of NMFS. Users who are interested in critical habitat for NMFS 
species are referred to the NMFS critical habitat Website, here:

https://www.fisheries.noaa.gov/national/endangered-species-conservation/critical-habitat

  Important note
  Not all of the critical habitat data designated by the Fish & Wildlife Service is 
  available from this portal. If you require critical habitat spatial data not available 
  here, please contact the FWS Lead Region for that species

Please see the following link for a zip file containing two shapefiles, one for lines, 
one for polygons, which aggregate all critical habitat shapes for all species. 
Updated: Aug 16, 2019
https://ecos-beta.fws.gov/docs/crithab/crithab_all/crithab_all_layers.zip

Please see the following link for a zip file containing all individual shapefiles 
and metadata for all species. 
Updated: Aug 16, 2019
https://ecos-beta.fws.gov/docs/crithab/crithab_all/crithab_all_shapefiles.zip















Critical habitat are areas considered essential for the conservation of a listed 
species. Federal agencies are required to consult with the U.S. Fish and Wildlife 
Service on actions they carry out, fund, or authorize to ensure that their actions will 
not destroy or adversely modify critical habitat. These areas provide notice to the 
public and land managers of the importance of these areas to the conservation of a 
listed species. Special protections and/or restrictions are possible in areas where 
Federal funding, permits, licenses, authorizations, or actions occur or are required.















Data were collected using methods that have unknown accuracy (EPA National 
Geospatial Data Policy [NGDP] Accuracy Tier 10). For more information, 
please see EPA's NGDP at http://epa.gov/geospatial/policies.html















A formal accuracy assessment of the vertical positional information in the data set 
has either not been conducted, or is not applicable.















None The GIS files and their associated coordinates are not the legal source for 
determining the critical habitat boundaries of species described within this dataset. 
Inherent in any data set used to develop graphical representations, are limitations of
accuracy as determined by, among others, the source, scale and resolution of the 
data. While the Service makes every effort to represent the critical habitat shown 
with this data as completely and accurately as possible (given existing time and 
resource constraints), the USFWS gives no warranty, expressed or implied, as to 
the accuracy, reliability, or completeness of these data. In addition, the USFWS 
shall not be held liable for improper or incorrect use of the data described and/or 
contained herein. Graphical representations provided by the use of this data do not 
represent a legal description of the critical habitat boundary. The user is referred to 
the critical habitat textual description in the appropriate final rule for this species as 
published in the Federal Register. These data are to be used only in the context of 
the definition and purpose of critical habitat. This primarily relates to Section 7 
consultation under the Endangered Species Act. These data may be used for 
planning and land management purposes. They are not to be used for legal survey 
use.














The Florida Geographic Data Library is a collection of Geospatial Data
compiled by the University of Florida GeoPlan Center with support from
the Florida Department of Transportation. GIS data available in FGDL is
collected from various state, federal, and other agencies (data sources)
who are data stewards, producers, or publishers. The data available in
FGDL may not be the most current version of the data offered by the
data source. University of Florida GeoPlan Center makes no guarantees
about the currentness of the data and suggests that data users check
with the data source to see if more recent versions of the data exist.

Furthermore, the GIS data available in the FGDL are provided 'as is'.
The University of Florida GeoPlan Center makes no warranties, guaranties
or representations as to the truth, accuracy or completeness of the data
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to any implied warranties of merchantability, fitness for a particular
purpose, or non-infringement. The University of Florida GeoPlan Center
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modifying, contributing or distributing the materials.

A note about data scale: 

Scale is an important factor in data usage.  Certain scale datasets
are not suitable for some project, analysis, or modeling purposes.
Please be sure you are using the best available data. 

1:24000 scale datasets are recommended for projects that are at the
county level.
1:24000 data should NOT be used for high accuracy base mapping such
as property parcel boundaries.
1:100000 scale datasets are recommended for projects that are at the
multi-county or regional level.
1:125000 scale datasets are recommended for projects that are at the
regional or state level or larger.

Vector datasets with no defined scale or accuracy should be
considered suspect. Make sure you are familiar with your data
before using it for projects or analysis. Every effort has been
made to supply the user with data documentation. For additional
information, see the References section and the Data Source Contact
section of this documentation. For more information regarding
scale and accuracy, see our webpage at:
http://geoplan.ufl.edu/education.html








REFERENCES: 






U.S. Fish & Wildlife Service
ECOS Environmental Conservation Online System
https://ecos.fws.gov/ecp/report/table/critical-habitat.html

Please see the following link for a zip file containing two shapefiles, one for lines, 
one for polygons, which aggregate all critical habitat shapes for all species. 
Updated: Aug 16, 2019
https://ecos-beta.fws.gov/docs/crithab/crithab_all/crithab_all_layers.zip

Please see the following link for a zip file containing all individual shapefiles 
and metadata for all species. 
Updated: Aug 16, 2019
https://ecos-beta.fws.gov/docs/crithab/crithab_all/crithab_all_shapefiles.zip









DATA LINEAGE SUMMARY: 








Data is acquired from field offices responsible for developing individual species 
shapefiles. The shapefiles are then merged to create this all layers shapefile. 
For development of individual species shapefiles, please refer to that individual 
species' metadata.
Process Date: 20190813


The GeoPlan Center downloaded the aggregate all critical habitat shapes for all 
species (polygon) dataset on October 16th, 2019 from the USFWS ECOS Website:

ECOS Environmental Conservation Online System
https://ecos.fws.gov/ecp/report/table/critical-habitat.html

A zip file containing two shapefiles, one for lines, one for polygons, 
which aggregate all critical habitat shapes for all species. 
Updated: Aug 16, 2019
https://ecos-beta.fws.gov/docs/crithab/crithab_all/crithab_all_layers.zip

CRITHAB_LINE.shp

During the QA/QC process the following tasks were undertaken:

- Select features that intersected the FL_Envelope_Buffer400m.shp, exported to 
  CRITHAB_LINE_FL

- Reprojected to FGDL Albers from GCS_WGS_1984 using the following transformation:
  WGS_1984_(ITRF00)_To_NAD_1983 + NAD_1983_To_HARN_Florida
  CRITHAB_LINE_FL_Albers

- Clipped to the FL_Envelope_Buffer400m.shp
  CRITHAB_LINE_FL_Albers_Clip

- Uppercased all records in the table (Except SCINAME).
- Uppercased all field names
- A DESCRIPT field was added based on COMNAME
- A FGDLAQDATE field was added based on date downloaded from source.
- Renamed to ch_usfws_line_aug19.shp
- Updated Metadata.
Process Date: 20191016


Dataset copied.
Process Date: 20191101









MAP PROJECTION PARAMETERS: 



Projection                          ALBERS
Datum                               HPGN
Units                               METERS
Spheroid                            GRS1980
1st Standard Parallel               24  0  0.000
2nd Standard Parallel               31 30  0.000
Central Meridian                   -84 00  0.000
Latitude of Projection's Origin     24  0  0.000
False Easting (meters)              400000.00000
False Northing (meters)             0.00000




DATA SOURCE CONTACT (S):








Name:
Abbr. Name:
Address:


Phone:

Web site:
E-mail:
Contact Person:
         Phone:
        E-mail:




U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service
USFWS
1201 Oakridge Dr.
Fort Collins, CO
80525
970-267-7316


http://ecos.fws.gov/docs/crithab/crithab_all/crithab_all_layers.zip
ryan_brodie@fws.gov
Ryan Brodie









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