Development by Design in West Texas:
Mitigating Energy Sprawl Through Cooperative Landscape Planning
Kei Sochi, Jon Paul Pierre, Louis Harveson, Patricia Moody Harveson, David V. Iannelli,
John Karges, Billy Tarrant, Melinda Taylor, Michael H. Young and Joseph Kiesecker
May 2021
Table S1. Data sources for conservation values mapping.
| VALUE | Scaling / Units | REF/SOURCE | |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Intact landscapes | 1 = Very High intactness 0.5 = High intactness 0.25 = Moderate intactness | Elliott, Lee F., Amie Treuer-Kuehn, Clayton F. Blodgett, C. Diane True, Duane German, and David D. Diamond. 2009-2014. Ecological Systems of Texas: 391 Mapped Types. Phase 1 – 6, 10-meter resolution Geodatabase, Interpretive Guides, and Technical Type Descriptions. Texas Parks & Wildlife Department and Texas Water Development Board, Austin, Texas. Documents and Data Available at: http://www.tpwd.state.tx.us/gis/data/downloads#EMS-T Pronatura Noreste, The Nature Conservancy, and the World Wildlife Fund. (2004). Ecoregional Conservation Assessment of the Chihuahuan Desert, 2nd edition. Available from: https://bit.ly/3f19LJA. Comer PJ, Faber-Langendoen D, Evans R, Gawler SC, Josse C, Kittel G, Menard S, Pyne M, Reid M, Schulz K, Snow K, and Teague J. 2003. Ecological Systems of the United States: A Working Classification of U.S. Terrestrial Systems. NatureServe, Arlington, Virginia. Available from: https://www.natureserve.org/sites/default/files/pcom_2003_ecol_systems_us.pdf |
| 2 | Grasslands | Gradient (mean/area) | Elliott, Lee F., Amie Treuer-Kuehn, Clayton F. Blodgett, C. Diane True, Duane German, and David D. Diamond. 2009-2014. Ecological Systems of Texas: 391 Mapped Types. Phase 1 – 6, 10-meter resolution Geodatabase, Interpretive Guides, and Technical Type Descriptions. Texas Parks & Wildlife Department and Texas Water Development Board, Austin, Texas. Documents and Data Available at: http://www.tpwd.state.tx.us/gis/data/downloads#EMS-T |
| 3 | Riparian and Wetlands | Gradient (mean/area) | Elliott, Lee F., Amie Treuer-Kuehn, Clayton F. Blodgett, C. Diane True, Duane German, and David D. Diamond. 2009-2014. Ecological Systems of Texas: 391 Mapped Types. Phase 1 – 6, 10-meter resolution Geodatabase, Interpretive Guides, and Technical Type Descriptions. Texas Parks & Wildlife Department and Texas Water Development Board, Austin, Texas. Documents and Data Available at: http://www.tpwd.state.tx.us/gis/data/downloads#EMS-T |
| 4 | Springs | Gradient (count/area) - this is in essence a point density layer. | Spring Stewardship Institute Ledbetter, Jeri D., MGIS, Lawrence E. Stevens, PhD, Abraham Springer, PhD, and Benjamin Brandt, MGIS. Springs Inventory Database. Online Database. Springs and Springs-Dependent Species Database. Vers. 1.0. Springs Stewardship Institute, January 2014. Web. July 12, 2019. |
| 5 | Bighorn Sheep distribution and movement model | Gradient (probability values) | Borderlands Research Institute (Sul Ross State University) 2020 in review |
| 6 | Pronghorn distribution and movement model | Gradient (mean of percentiles) | Borderlands Research Institute (Sul Ross State University) 2020 in review |
| 7 | Mountain lion distribution and movement model | Gradient (mean of percentiles) | Borderlands Research Institute (Sul Ross State University) 2020 in review |
| 8 | Hunting - Mule Deer | 1.0 = HIGH (< 50 acres/mule deer) 0.75 = MEDIUM (51-100 acres/mule deer) 0.5 = LOW (101-300 acres/mule deer) 0 = Very Low/None | Texas Parks and Wildlife, Wildlife Division. 2018. Mule Deer Monitoring Units. |
| 9 | Hunting - Pronghorn | 1.0 = Core (1000 acres/pronghorn) 0.5 = Rotational/Low (> 1000 acres/pronghorn) | Texas Parks and Wildlife, Wildlife Division. 2018. Pronghorn Herd Units. |
| 10 | Recreation routes/trails | Gradient (km/area) | Texas A&M Forest Service. Texas Scenic View driving routes. Available at: https://texasforestinfo.tamu.edu/txscenicviews/home. Texas Parks and Wildlife, Great Texas Wildlife Trails - Far West Texas Trails. Available at: https://tpwd.texas.gov/huntwild/wildlife/wildlife-trails/fwtx Texas Parks and Wildlife, State Parks Trails data. Available at: https://tpwd.texas.gov/state-parks/park-information/maps/park-gis-files Adventure Cycling Association. 2019. Southern Tier Bicycle Route. Available at: https://www.adventurecycling.org/routes-and-maps/adventure-cycling-route-network/southern-tier/. National Park Service (2019). Big Bend National Park trails data. Available at: http://data-oema.opendata.arcgis.com/datasets/411e11297efa41b8809094398dd628a5_0 |
| 11 | Parks/ Managed areas | Binary (1 = yes, 0 = no) | U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) Gap Analysis Project (GAP),2018, Protected Areas Database of the United States (PAD-US): U.S. Geological Survey data release, https://doi.org/10.5066/P955KPLE. |
| 12 | Viewsheds | Binary (1 = yes, 0 = no) | Tadono, T., Ishida, H., Oda, F., Naito, S., Minakawa, K. and Iwamoto, H., 2014. Precise global DEM generation by ALOS PRISM. ISPRS Annals of the Photogrammetry, Remote Sensing and Spatial Information Sciences, 2(4),p.71. 2019 TIGER/Line Shapefiles (machinereadable data files) / prepared by the U.S. Census Bureau, 2019 FLICKR photo points. Licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 2.0 Generic (CC-BY2.0). Accessed 2019-10-11. |
| 13 | NTL | Gradient (radiance values) Set upper threshold value at 5 nWcm−2 sr−1 (see Kyba et al 2017 notes). Create inverse grid (where 1 = total darkness and 0 = 5 nWcm-2sr-1). Log10 transform and then ran focal mean. | Elvidge, Christopher D., Kimberly Baugh, Mikhail Zhizhin, Feng Chi Hsu, and Tilottama Ghosh. “VIIRS night-time lights.” International Journal of Remote Sensing 38, no. 21 (2017): 5860-5879. https://payneinstitute.mines.edu/eog/nighttime-lights/ |