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Description: Joint Ventures (JVs) are bird conservation partnerships, established to achieve the goals of the North American Waterfowl Management Plan (NAWMP). There are 22 bird habitat JVs in North America, and our JV, the Upper Mississippi/Great Lakes Region Joint Venture (UMGL JV) is located in the Midwest, in a pivotal location in the Mississippi Flyway, for people involved in migratory bird conservation. We are a collaborative, regional group of government agencies, tribes, nonprofit organizations, corporations, universities, and individuals that conserve habitat for the benefit of migratory birds, other wildlife, and people. Our landscape includes eastern Minnesota; all of Wisconsin and Michigan; eastern Nebraska and Kansas; western, southern and eastern Iowa; northern Missouri, Illinois and Indiana; and northwestern Ohio.Targeting conservation to achieve biological objectives for Waterfowl and social objectives for People is a priority for JVs. We produced a Decision Support Tool (DST) for our JV region to help achieve this goal, and this polygon dataset represents the original raster of the mixed-model of the DST. The map of this product was published in the JV Waterfowl Habitat Conservation Strategy – 2017 Revision (Figure 18). It was also the main layer in Figure 5 in JV"s technical report 2017-1 entitled: Targeting Conservation for Waterfowl and People: A Decision Support Tool.Starting with a matrix of six relevant objectives, we transformed related biological and social data into a family of six spatially explicit model-based maps designed to achieve individual objectives. Output maps were weighted based on discussion with regional decision makers (JV Management board) and then combined, resulting in an aggregate mixed-model of the DST (original raster of this product) to target conservation for Waterfowl and People in the JV region (mixing biological and social objectives).This product showed the distribution and relative density (scale of 0 – 1; values of low – high) of the most valuable areas (pixel neighborhoods) across the JV region, to acquire or manage whatever the required action at the local scale is (i.e., retention, protection, and or restoration). Aggregate-priority-areas, emphasized mostly across Bird Conservation Region (BCR) 22 and 23, were predicted to produce the most value for the decision makers. These hotspots were mainly prioritized using relative density of breeding and or non-breeding habitats for ducks. They were then ‘customized’ by gaining low – high values depending on the relative density of current and potential social demand. Additional customization was achieved by adding relative density of development and agricultural, as a proxy for social need to restore ecological goods and services and Waterfowl need to decrease habitat threats. Areas other than the hotspots represents the availability of objective-targeting-areas in lower data densities, lower objective overlap, and/or lower objective weights.We designed a flexible and adaptable analysis framework, so objectives and objective weights can be easily adjusted to address shifts in regional stakeholder priorities and produced other models of this DST using different objective weights to compare outcomes with varied emphasis on biological vs. social values. All models of our DST (including this one) can be scaled-down (i.e., stepped-down to state, watershed, county, or any smaller target area) and supplemented with additional local data such as soil types, current land use, hydrologic aspects, and other environmental priorities for customized output maps depicting best areas for Waterfowl habitat restoration vs. retention vs. enhancement. See the JV website and publications for details. To download this product (zipped geodatabase) and associated metadata and documentation, please refer to the UMGL JV online folder in ScienceBase. For internal use of USFWS staff: Data Management Plan (DMP) ID = 675; Title: UMGL JV Waterfowl & People Decision Support Tool (Mixed-Model).Model codes and final steps (for internal use of UMGLJV staff): (i) AgsJvwDstV3_03_03_01_01_01_01_Hlshd1StD25_TitleUpdate_MixedModel_Ready___Final = albers_Jv17WfDstMx. (ii) albers_Jv17WfDstMx → albers_Jv17WfDstMx_41GeomsRstr → albers_Jv17WfDstMx_41GeomsRstr_SmplMltiprtPlgn → imported to final GDB and projected on-the-fly to WGS84 → renamed to Jv17WfDstMx.

Copyright Text: The GIS product available here summarizes the collective effort in the UMGL JV since 2016, and the credit goes to everyone in our partnership, including our science team, management board, and JV staff. Leading the design of spatial models, executing GIS analyses, creating the online contents, and sharing final products has been accomplished by JV's bird conservation modeler: U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, DOI Region 3, Migratory Birds Program, Upper Mississippi/Great Lakes Joint Venture, Mohammed A. Al-Saffar.

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Last Edit Date: 7/24/2025 4:46:02 PM

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