The Sagebrush Biome Range Extent, as Derived from Classified Landsat Imagery

Description

This feature estimates the geographic extent of the sagebrush biome in the United States. It was created for the Western Association of Fish and Wildlife Agency’s (WAFWA) Sagebrush Conservation Strategy publication as a visual for the schematic figures. This layer does not represent the realized distribution of sagebrush and should not be used to summarize statistics about the distribution or precise location of sagebrush across the landscape. This layer is intended to generalize the sagebrush biome distribution using Landsat derived classified vegetation rasters (Rigge at al. 2019), Bureau of Land Management-designated Habitat Management Areas, state-designated Priority Areas for Conservation for sage-grouse, the current range of the Greater Sage-grouse (Centrocercus urophasianus), Gunnison Sage-grouse (Centrocercus minimus) and Pygmy Rabbit (Brachylagus idahoensis).

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Name Format Description Link
55 The metadata original format https://data.usgs.gov/datacatalog/metadata/USGS.5ccb4a64e4b09b8c0b7808a6.xml
55 Landing page for access to the data https://doi.org/10.5066/P950H8HS

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  • western-united-states
  • montana
  • utah
  • colorado
  • great-basin
  • idaho
  • biota
  • wyoming
  • south-dakota
  • biogeography
  • sagebrush
  • united-states
  • sage
  • california
  • arizona
  • washington
  • north-america
  • north-dakota
  • new-mexico
  • usgs-5ccb4a64e4b09b8c0b7808a6
  • oregon
  • nevada

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