Conservation Tools Summary
Mississippi Alluvial Valley
The Forest Breeding Bird Model for Restoration prioritizes areas within the MAV for reforestation based on perceived benefit to breeding birds.
The MAV Forest Protection model prioritizes sites for protection within the Mississippi Alluvial Valley based on benefits to forest bird conservation afforded by forest patch area, geographic location, and hydrologic condition.
The MAV Land Ownership Database is a permission-access database that includes parcel boundary, name, and address information within the MAV of Arkansas, Louisiana, and Mississippi. Its purpose is to assist in targeting area-specific conservation goals and objectives.
The Mississippi Alluvial Valley Planning Tool is a database that provides a variety of data layers useful to conservation planning at the regional and local level (more experienced ArcGIS users can also access the Web map link to the Tool - http://arcg.is/1mzzbT).
The WRE Plantation Age Estimator Tool is designed to advance awareness and understanding of developing bottomland hardwood plantations and support habitat management planning on Wetland Reserve (WRP/E) and Emergency Watershed Protection (EWP) easements, using data from the National Conservation Database (NCED).
Potential Natural Vegetation maps help to identify the appropriate plant communities to restore at specific MAV sites based on the various site conditions.
Public lands managers with waterfowl or shorebird habitat information to enter for areas in the MAV or WGCPO are permitted to access the WMU Tool and submit/edit management information. Contact Blaine Elliott (blaine_elliott@fws.gov) for user access.
West Gulf Coastal Plain/Ouachitas
The WGCPO Open Pine Decision Support Model prioritizes management and protection actions within existing pine and mixed pine/hardwood habitat according to the landscape-scale needs of three Open Pine Umbrella Species (brown-headed nuthatch, Bachman’s sparrow, and red-cockaded woodpecker).
The WGCPO Forested Wetland Decision Support Model prioritizes existing forested wetland habitat according to habitat suitability for the five Forested Wetland Umbrella Species (Acadian flycatcher, Kentucky warbler, prothonotary warbler, red-shouldered hawk, and yellow-throated warbler).
The Emergent Wetland Assessment provides a JV-wide map of emergent wetland habitat.