This map displays preliminary findings to be used for demonstration purposes only.<div>This is a point feature collating data and location information for 261 bat acoustic monitoring sites around the midwestern US and the Great Lakes collected by the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service's radar team, as well as Kevin Heist. See Supplementary Information for more details. </div><div><br /></div><div>The purpose of this dataset is to provide a information for bat activity across the Upper Midwest Great Lakes region on a site-by-site basis. This dataset is be used to build other predictive layers which can be used to identify general areas of greater and lesser airspace and habitat use by bats. This information has been incorporated into the Great Lakes Airspace Map Decision Support Tool <span style='font-family:Arial, sans-serif; font-size:14.6667px;'>(GLAM DST).</span><span style='font-family:Arial, sans-serif; font-size:14.6667px;'> </span></div><div><br /></div><div><span style='font-size:11pt; font-family:Arial, sans-serif;'>This DST is meant
to help managers plan projects and conservation activities. The DST provides layers
that predict areas of high bird and bat activity within the Great Lakes basin.
Layers are radar-based for birds and acoustic-based for bats. These layers can
be used in conjunction with publicly available layers or with private project
layers to pinpoint areas for management that would benefit migratory birds
and/or bats as well as meeting other objectives. </span><br /></div><div style='font-family:"Avenir Next W01", "Avenir Next W00", "Avenir Next", Avenir, "Helvetica Neue", sans-serif; font-size:16px;'><p style='margin-bottom:0in; margin-bottom:.0001pt;'><span style='font-size:12pt; font-family:Arial, sans-serif; background-image:initial; background-position:initial; background-size:initial; background-repeat:initial; background-attachment:initial; background-origin:initial; background-clip:initial;'>The
United States Fish and Wildlife Service (Service) shall not be held liable for
improper or incorrect use of the data described and/or contained herein. While
the Service makes every reasonable effort to ensure the accuracy and
completeness of data provided for distribution, it may not have the necessary
accuracy or completeness required for every possible intended use. The Service
recommends that data users consult the associated metadata record to understand
the quality and possible limitations of the data. The Service creates metadata
records in accordance with the standards endorsed by the Federal Geographic
Data Committee. </span><span style='font-size:12.0pt; font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;'><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span style='font-size:12pt; font-family:Arial, sans-serif;'>As a result of the above
considerations, the Service gives no warranty, expressed or implied, as to the
accuracy, reliability, or completeness of the data. It is the responsibility of
the data user to use the data in a manner consistent with the limitations of
geospatial data in general and these data in particular. Although these data
have been processed successfully on a computer system at the Service, no
warranty, expressed or implied, is made regarding the utility of the data on
another system or for general or scientific purposes, nor shall the act of
distribution constitute any such warranty. This applies to the use of the data
both alone and in aggregate with other data and information.</span><br /></div>batsactivityUSFWSGreat Lakes RegionNortheast RegionEcological ServicesData Collection: Kevin Heist, Betina Chaon, Kim Reich, Chris Potter; USFWS Ecological Services: Jeff Gosse, David Larson, Jill Utrup, Nate Rathbun, Dan Nolfi, Becky Horton, Tim Bowden, Mike Wells. Concept Design: Douglas H Johnson, Kevin Heist. Map Production: Kevin Heist