eng utf8 dataset dataset Wildlife Habitat Spatial Analysis Lab Bureau of Land Management, National Operations Center GIS Analyst 303-236-0446

Denver Federal Center, Building 50 Lakewood CO 80225 US kmayne@blm.gov

pointOfContact 2025-08-11 ISO 19139 Geographic Information - Metadata - Implementation Specification 2007 geometryOnly composite 0 2025-08-11 publication Bureau of Land Management publisher U.S. Department of the Interior, Bureau of Land Management (BLM) originator Wildlife Habitat Spatial Analysis Lab Bureau of Land Management, National Operations Center GIS Analyst 303-236-0446

National Operations Center, BLM, W 6th and Kipling St Denver CO 80225 US kmayne@blm.gov

originator mapDigital This dataset represents the consolidated submissions of GRSG habitat management areas from each individual BLM ARMP & ARMPA/Records of Decision (ROD) and for subsequent updates as of February 2025. Please contact the BLM Montana State Office for details on how sage-grouse management is applied in these areas. This dataset represents the consolidated submissions of GRSG habitat management areas from each individual BLM ARMP & ARMPA/Records of Decision (ROD) and for subsequent updates. These data were submitted to the BLM’s Wildlife Habitat Spatial Analysis Lab in March 2016 and were updated for UT in April of 2017, WY in October of 2017 (Lander and Bighorn EIS) and May 2022 (Buffalo and NinePlan EIS); CO in February of 2020, NVCA in July 2022, and Oregon in August 2022. February 2025: Colorado and Oregon submitted signed ROD data for GRSG habitat in Feb 2025 - these feature classes replaced previous CO and OR data in the Aug 2022 version. August 2022 Update: OR - New habitat data was submitted by Oregon EIS as part of the Allocation Decision Analysis data call in 2022. Data that was submitted earlier was updated to reflect SFA designations in Aug 2022. July 2022 Update: NVCA - New habitat data was submitted by NVCA as part of the Allocation Decision Analysis data call in 2022. May 2022 Update: WY - New habitat data was submitted by Wyoming EISs Buffalo and Nine Plan as part of the Allocation Decision Analysis data call in 2022. February 2020 Update: CO - In February 2016, the Associated Governments of Northwest Colorado (AGNC) hired a consultant (Olsson) to help further refine CPW’s greater sage-grouse habitat maps in Northwest Colorado. The Olsson consultation team, have utilized CPW’s contemporary and rigorous habitat models and developed their own to produce revised PHMA and GHMA habitat data. These spatial datasets (i.e., habitat maps) are specifically designed to meet the management intent of the ARMPA and have been produced for formal submittal to the BLM for incorporation into Northwest Colorado Land and Resource Management Plans. The updated habitat delineations for NWCO include Undesignated Habitat (UDH) to address concerns surrounding the management of privately held irrigated agricultural lands. The BLM's NWCO Sage-Grouse Plan has no management decisions associated with this habitat designation. October 2017 Update: WY - On October 27, 2017 the WY state director signed maintenance actions for the Wyoming Sage-Grouse ARMPA, Buffalo RMP, Cody RMP, and Worland RMP that changed WY PHMA boundaries, bringing them into consistency with the Wyoming Core Areas (version 4) from the current Governor's executive order 2015-4. The updated PHMA boundaries were also adopted by the Lander RMP. April 2017 Update: UT - The interagency team reconvened in late 2016 to review State of Utah GRSG populations and the BLM’s 2015 and 2016 wildfire data. Of the ten soft triggers and seven hard triggers evaluated, only one population soft trigger and one population hard trigger have been met, both within the Sheeprocks population area of Fillmore and Salt Lake Field Offices. Appendix I of the ARMPA includes “hard-wired” changes in management that were finalized in the 2015 Record of Decision, listed in Appendix I Table I.1 (Specific Management Responses). The PHMA in the Sheeprocks population has changed as a result of this, and the change is reflected in this data. The following habitat management areas were used in the creation of this feature class: PHMA: Areas identified as having the highest habitat value for maintaining sustainable GRSG populations and include breeding, late brood-rearing, and winter concentration areas. GHMA: Areas that are occupied seasonally or year-round and are outside of PHMAs. IHMA: Areas in Idaho that provide a management buffer for and that connect patches of PHMAs. IHMAs encompass areas of generally moderate to high habitat value habitat or populations but that are not as important as PHMAs. OHMA: Areas in Nevada and Northeastern California, identified as unmapped habitat in the Proposed RMP/Final EIS, that are within the Planning Area and contain seasonal or connectivity habitat areas. RHMA: Areas in Montana EISs with ongoing or imminent impacts containing substantial and high-quality GRSG habitat that historically supported sustainable GRSG populations. Management actions would emphasize restoration for the purpose of establishing or restoring sustainable GRSG populations. Areas are delineated using key, core, and connectivity data or maps and other resource information. LCHMA: Areas in CO EIS that have been identified as broader regions of connectivity important to facilitate the movement of GRSG and maintain ecological processes. UDH: In CO EIS, An Undesignated Habitat management prescription was developed to address concerns surrounding the management of privately held irrigated agricultural lands. Anthro Mountain: An additional 41,200 acres of National Forest System lands in the Anthro Mountain portion of the Carbon Population Area in Utah EIS that are managed as neither PHMA nor GHMA. These areas are identified as “Anthro Mountain.” In the BLM’s ARMPA, these areas are considered split-estate, where the BLM merely administers the mineral estate. This dataset represents the consolidated submissions of GRSG habitat management areas from each individual BLM ARMP & ARMPA/Records of Decision (ROD) and for subsequent updates as of February 2025. Please contact the BLM Montana State Office for details on how sage-grouse management is applied in these areas. This dataset represents the consolidated submissions of GRSG habitat management areas from each individual BLM ARMP & ARMPA/Records of Decision (ROD) and for subsequent updates. These data were submitted to the BLM’s Wildlife Habitat Spatial Analysis Lab in March 2016 and were updated for UT in April of 2017, WY in October of 2017 (Lander and Bighorn EIS) and May 2022 (Buffalo and NinePlan EIS); NW CO in February of 2020, NVCA in July 2022, and Oregon in August 2022. All of the data used to create this file was submitted by the EIS. Quality Assurance/Quality Control (QA/QC) employed by the Wildlife Habitat Spatial Analysis lab was limited to: ensuring that the submitted data did not span the EIS boundary and ensuring that the submitted habitat data did not contain overlaps between various habitat management area designations. The EIS is solely responsible for the content and quality of submitted data used to create this file. The Hab_Type field was calculated from the EIS_HAB field, and includes the following: PHMA, GHMA, IHMA, RHMA, OHMA, LCHMA, Anthro Mtn, and UDH. Features were dissolved to the EIS_HAB and Hab_Type fields and geometry was repaired. See the Details section of this metadata record for a description of the updates made to the original dataset. The Source field was added to keep track of data that was submitted in 2022 to distinguish these records from habitat records that were not updated in 2022, having been retained from the Feb 2020 version of the GRSG Habitat data. Compiled by the BLM’s Wildlife Habitat Spatial Analysis Lab. Data created and submitted to the NOC by each individual EIS. completed Wildlife Habitat Spatial Analysis Lab Bureau of Land Management, National Operations Center GIS Analyst 303-236-0446

National Operations Center, W 6th & Kipling Lakewood CO 80225 US kmayne@blm.gov

pointOfContact asNeeded California Colorado Idaho Montana Nevada North Dakota Oregon South Dakota Utah Washington Wyoming place CA CO ID MT ND NV OR SD United States US UT WA WY place Wildlife theme Adaptive Management Allocation Decision Analysis Anthro Mountain BLM Core Areas GHMA Greater Sage-Grouse GRSG HUB-GRSG IHMA LCHMA OHMA PHMA Record of Decision RHMA ROD Sage-Grouse UDH Undesignated Habitat Update USFS theme These data are provided by Bureau of Land Management (BLM) 'as is' and might contain errors or omissions. The User assumes the entire risk associated with its use of these data and bears all responsibility in determining whether these data are fit for the User's intended use. The information contained in these data is dynamic and may change over time. The data are not better than the sources from which they were derived, and both scale and accuracy may vary across the data set. These data might not have the accuracy, resolution, completeness, timeliness, or other characteristics appropriate for applications that potential users of the data may contemplate. The User is encouraged to carefully consider the content of the metadata file associated with these data. These data are neither legal documents nor land surveys, and must not be used as such. Official records may be referenced at most BLM offices. Please report any errors in the data to the BLM office from which it was obtained. The BLM should be cited as the data source in any products derived from these data. Any Users wishing to modify the data should describe the types of modifications they have performed. The User should not misrepresent the data, nor imply that changes made were approved or endorsed by BLM. This data may be updated by the BLM without notification. The BLM assumes no responsibility for errors or omissions. No warranty is made by the BLM as to the accuracy, reliability, or completeness of these data for individual use or aggregate use with other data; nor shall the act of distribution to contractors, partners, or beyond, constitute any such warranty for individual or aggregate data use with other data. Although these data have been processed successfully on computers of BLM, no warranty, expressed or implied, is made by BLM regarding the use of these data on any other system, or for general or scientific purposes, nor does the fact of distribution constitute or imply any such warranty. In no event shall the BLM have any liability whatsoever for payment of any consequential, incidental, indirect, special, or tort damages of any kind, including, but not limited to, any loss of profits arising out of the use or reliance on the geographic data or arising out of the delivery, installation, operation, or support by BLM. None, these data are considered public domain. vector eng utf8 biota environment Esri ArcGIS 13.3.4.52636 -125.689431 -96.395448 34.134882 51.622785 Created: 8/31/2022 2022-08-31T00:00:00 true -123.686189 -102.293779 36.014905 49.500371 File Geodatabase Feature Class Wildlife Habitat Spatial Analysis Lab Bureau of Land Management, National Operations Center GIS Analyst 303-236-0446

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distributor 2022-08-31T00:00:00 Feature Class 20220831 File Geodatabase no compression applied 10.59 https://gbp-blm-egis.hub.arcgis.com/pages/national dataset Each EIS is responsible for their submissions’ conceptual consistency. Contact the appropriate BLM Planning Lead for information. Each EIS is responsible for their submissions’ conceptual consistency. Contact the appropriate BLM Planning Lead for information. Each EIS is responsible for their submissions’ conceptual consistency. Contact the appropriate BLM Planning Lead for information. Each EIS is responsible for their submissions’ conceptual consistency. Contact the appropriate BLM Planning Lead for information. This data is a product of the BLM. Contact the BLM point of contact for this dataset for information regarding the attribute accuracy. This data is a product of the BLM. Contact the BLM point of contact for this dataset for information regarding the attribute accuracy. This data is a product of the BLM. Contact the BLM point of contact for this dataset for information regarding the attribute accuracy. This data is a product of the BLM. Contact the BLM point of contact for this dataset for information regarding the attribute accuracy. This feature class was created using submitted ROD habitat data from EISs. 2022-08-31T00:00:00 Wildlife Habitat Spatial Analysis Lab Bureau of Land Management, National Operations Center GIS Analyst 303-236-0446

Denver Federal Center, Building 50 Lakewood CO 80225 US kmayne@blm.gov

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