Sage Grouse Historic Distribution

Metadata:

• Identification_Information
• Data_Quality_Information
• Spatial_Data_Organization_Information
• Spatial_Reference_Information
• Entity_and_Attribute_Information
• Distribution_Information
• Metadata_Reference_Information

Identification_Information:

Citation:

Citation_Information:

Originator: Montana Fish, Wildlife & Parks

Publication_Date: June 2002

Title: Sage Grouse Historic Distribution

Geospatial_Data_Presentation_Form: vector digital data

Publication_Information:

Publication_Place: Kalispell, MT

Publisher: Montana Fish, Wildlife & Parks

Online_Linkage: <http://fwp.mt.gov/insidefwp/gis/e00files/sghist.e00.zip>

Online_Linkage: <http://fwp.mt.gov/insidefwp/gis/shapefiles/sghist.shp.zip>

Larger_Work_Citation:

Citation_Information:

Originator:

Dr. Michael A. Schroeder - Washington Department of Fish and Wildlife

Publication_Date: February 2002

Title:

Current and Historic Distribution of Greater and Gunnison Sage-Grouse in North America

Edition: 1.1

Publication_Information:

Publication_Place: Olympia, Washington

Publisher: Washington Fish and Wildlife

Other_Citation_Details: See metadata for details on development of this layer.

Description:

Abstract:

Historic range of the greater sage-grouse (Centrocercus urophasianus) in Montana. The data were initially researched and compiled by Dr. Michael A. Schroeder, research biologist for the Washington State Department of Fish and Wildlife. The initial draft of current and historic range data was mapped and submitted to state, federal, and provincial natural resource agencies and other experts for review, comment, and editing. The final product represents the historic range/distribution in Montana based on review and incorporation of additional historic information by Montana Fish, Wildlife & Parks wildlife biologists and managers.

Definition of "Historic Range" - The historic distribution represents the bird's maximum distribution from the early 1800's to the 1970s.

Purpose:

The data are intended to provide a broad landscape perspective and broad analyses of historic sage grouse distribution and/or habitat.

Time_Period_of_Content:

Time_Period_Information:

Range_of_Dates/Times:

Beginning_Date: Early 1800s

Ending_Date: 1975

Currentness_Reference: ground condition

Status:

Progress:

Complete, based on the information reviewed by Montana Fish, Wildlife & Parks, spring 2001

Maintenance_and_Update_Frequency: None planned

Spatial_Domain:

Bounding_Coordinates:

West_Bounding_Coordinate: -113.956225

East_Bounding_Coordinate: -103.622835

North_Bounding_Coordinate: 49.084495

South_Bounding_Coordinate: 44.321561

Keywords:

Theme:

Theme_Keyword_Thesaurus: None

Theme_Keyword: Sage Grouse

Theme_Keyword: Historic Range

Theme_Keyword: Upland Game Bird

Theme_Keyword: Wildlife

Place:

Place_Keyword_Thesaurus: None

Place_Keyword: North America

Place_Keyword: Montana

Place_Keyword: Northwest Montana

Place_Keyword: Northwest

Stratum:

Stratum_Keyword_Thesaurus: None

Stratum_Keyword: None

Temporal:

Temporal_Keyword_Thesaurus: None

Temporal_Keyword: Historic

Access_Constraints: None.

Use_Constraints:

Data not intended for display at scales larger than 1:1,125,000.

Point_of_Contact:

Contact_Information:

Contact_Person_Primary:

Contact_Person: Lydia Bailey

Contact_Organization: Montana Fish, Wildlife & Parks

Contact_Position: GIS Programmer/Analyst

Contact_Address:

Address_Type: mailing and physical address

Address: 490 N Meridian Rd

City: Kalispell

State_or_Province: MT

Postal_Code: 59901

Country: USA

Contact_Voice_Telephone: 406-751-4570

Contact_Facsimile_Telephone: 406-257-0349

Contact_Electronic_Mail_Address: lbailey@state.mt.us

Hours_of_Service: 8 am - 5 pm (Mtn Time) Mon - Fri

Security_Information:

Security_Classification_System: None

Security_Classification: Unclassified

Security_Handling_Description: None

Native_Data_Set_Environment:

Microsoft Windows 2000 Version 5.0 (Build 2195) Service Pack 2; ESRI ArcCatalog 8.2.0.700

Data_Quality_Information:

Attribute_Accuracy:

Attribute_Accuracy_Report: See Entity_Attribute_Information

Quantitative_Attribute_Accuracy_Assessment:

Attribute_Accuracy_Value: See Explanation

Positional_Accuracy:

Horizontal_Positional_Accuracy:

Quantitative_Horizontal_Positional_Accuracy_Assessment:

Vertical_Positional_Accuracy:

Vertical_Positional_Accuracy_Report: n/a

Lineage:

Source_Information:

Source_Citation:

Citation_Information:

Originator: Washington Fish and Wildlife

Publication_Date: February 2002

Title:

Current and Historic Distribution of Greater and Gunnison Sage-Grouse in North America

Edition: 1.1

Other_Citation_Details: See the layer's metadata for details.

Source_Scale_Denominator: 2,000,000

Type_of_Source_Media: online

Source_Time_Period_of_Content:

Time_Period_Information:

Single_Date/Time:

Calendar_Date: 1800s

Source_Currentness_Reference: ground condition

Source_Citation_Abbreviation: Schroeder

Source_Contribution:

This was one of the sources of historic sage grouse distribution displayed on maps generated for review/edit by Montana Fish, Wildlife & Parks wildlife managers and biologists.

Source_Information:

Source_Citation:

Citation_Information:

Originator: Montana Fish, Wildlife and Parks

Publication_Date: May 2001

Title: Historic Sage Grouse Range in Montana

Geospatial_Data_Presentation_Form: map

Other_Citation_Details:

This layer was generated from a map depicting sage grouse range as common or abundant in the following source: Montana Fish and Game Commission. 1941-1942. Biennial Report. Figure 4 (p81).

This map was enlarged to an 11 x 17 inch page with a photocopier. The enlarged map was then registered on a digitizer using county boundaries to define tics (rms error was 0.018) and the sage grouse range was digitized as depicted on the map.

Source_Scale_Denominator: unknown

Type_of_Source_Media: paper

Source_Time_Period_of_Content:

Time_Period_Information:

Range_of_Dates/Times:

Beginning_Date: 1941

Ending_Date: 1942

Source_Currentness_Reference: ground condition

Source_Citation_Abbreviation: sg_mthist

Source_Contribution:

This was one of the sources of historic sage grouse distribution displayed on maps generated for review/edit by Montana Fish, Wildlife & Parks wildlife managers and biologists.

Source_Information:

Source_Citation:

Citation_Information:

Publication_Date: May 2001

Title: Areas Trapped for Sage Grouse Transplanting

Geospatial_Data_Presentation_Form: map

Other_Citation_Details:

This polygon layer was generated from a map depicting areas trapped for transplanting sage grouse in the following source: Montana Fish and Game Commission. 1941-1942. Biennial Report. Figure 4 (p81).

This map was enlarged to an 11 x 17 inch page with a photocopier. The enlarged map was then registered on a digitizer using county boundaries to define tics (rms error was 0.018) and the sage grouse range was digitized as depicted on the map.

Source_Scale_Denominator: unknown

Type_of_Source_Media: paper

Source_Citation_Abbreviation: sg_transplant

Source_Contribution:

This was one of the sources of historic sage grouse distribution displayed on maps generated for review/edit by Montana Fish, Wildlife & Parks wildlife managers and biologists.

Source_Information:

Source_Citation:

Citation_Information:

Originator: Montana Fish, Wildlife & Parks

Publication_Date: May 2001

Title: Counties with Historic Seasons for Sage Grouse

Other_Citation_Details:

This polygon layer was created based on counties that had at least one sage grouse season. This information was compiled from:

Eustace, C.D. December, 2000. Historical review of sage grouse in Montana. Unpublished report. Montana, Fish, Wildlife & Parks, 12 pp.

County polygons meeting the above criteria were pulled from the 1:100,000 scale County GIS layer available from the Natural Resource Information System, Montana State Library, Helena, MT or on line at <http://nris.state.mt.us>.

Source_Scale_Denominator: 100,000

Type_of_Source_Media: online

Source_Time_Period_of_Content:

Time_Period_Information:

Range_of_Dates/Times:

Beginning_Date: May 13, 1926

Ending_Date: August 13, 1956

Source_Currentness_Reference: ground condition

Source_Citation_Abbreviation: sg_county

Source_Contribution:

This was one of the sources of historic sage grouse distribution displayed on maps generated for review/edit by Montana Fish, Wildlife & Parks wildlife managers and biologists.

Source_Information:

Source_Citation:

Citation_Information:

Originator: Montana Fish, Wildlife & Parks

Publication_Date: May 2001

Title: Locations of Known Sage Grouse Habitats

Other_Citation_Details:

This point layer was created based on information of known sage grouse habitats found in various literature:

Eustace, C.D. December, 2000. Historical review of sage grouse in Montana. Unpublished report. Montana, Fish, Wildlife & Parks, 12 pp.

Carlson, J.C. and L. Oechsli. 1999. Avian habitat. Fish and Wildlife Management Program, Montana State University.

Saunders, A.A. 1912. Some birds of southwestern Montana. Condor 14:22-32.

Source_Scale_Denominator: 1,115,939

Type_of_Source_Media: online

Source_Time_Period_of_Content:

Time_Period_Information:

Range_of_Dates/Times:

Beginning_Date: 1900

Ending_Date: 1999

Source_Currentness_Reference: ground condition

Source_Citation_Abbreviation: sg_pnt

Source_Contribution:

This was one of the sources of historic sage grouse distribution displayed on maps generated for review/edit by Montana Fish, Wildlife & Parks wildlife managers and biologists.

Process_Step:

Source_Used_Citation_Abbreviation: c:\tmp\xml51.tmp

Process_Step:

Process_Description: Metadata imported.

Source_Used_Citation_Abbreviation: C:\Workspace\Requests\MetadataUpdate\xml\sghist.xml

Process_Step:

Process_Description: Dataset copied.

Source_Used_Citation_Abbreviation:

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SDTS_Terms_Description:

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Point_and_Vector_Object_Count: 322

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Point_and_Vector_Object_Count: 19

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SDTS_Terms_Description:

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Spatial_Reference_Information:

Horizontal_Coordinate_System_Definition:

Planar:

Map_Projection:

Map_Projection_Name: Lambert Conformal Conic

Lambert_Conformal_Conic:

Standard_Parallel: 45.000000

Standard_Parallel: 49.000000

Longitude_of_Central_Meridian: -109.500000

Latitude_of_Projection_Origin: 44.250000

False_Easting: 600000.000000

False_Northing: 0.000000

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Ordinate_Resolution: 0.003521

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Ellipsoid_Name: Geodetic Reference System 80

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Entity_and_Attribute_Information:

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Attribute:

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Attribute_Definition: Feature geometry.

Attribute_Definition_Source: ESRI

Attribute_Domain_Values:

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Attribute_Definition: Internal node number for the beginning of an arc (from-node).

Attribute_Definition_Source: ESRI

Attribute_Domain_Values:

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Attribute:

Attribute_Label: TNODE#

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Attribute_Definition_Source: ESRI

Attribute_Domain_Values:

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Attribute_Label: LPOLY#

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Attribute_Definition_Source: ESRI

Attribute_Domain_Values:

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Attribute_Definition_Source: ESRI

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Attribute_Definition_Source: ESRI

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Attribute:

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Attribute_Definition: Internal feature number.

Attribute_Definition_Source: ESRI

Attribute_Domain_Values:

Unrepresentable_Domain:

Sequential unique whole numbers that are automatically generated.

Attribute:

Attribute_Label: SGHIST-ID

Attribute_Definition: User-defined feature number.

Attribute_Definition_Source: ESRI

Attribute:

Attribute_Label: BIOLOGIST

Attribute_Definition: FWP biologist (and date) responsible for delineating line work.

Attribute_Definition_Source: FWP

Attribute:

Attribute_Label: ORIG

Detailed_Description:

Entity_Type:

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Attribute_Definition: Internal feature number.

Attribute_Definition_Source: ESRI

Attribute_Domain_Values:

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Sequential unique whole numbers that are automatically generated.

Attribute:

Attribute_Label: Shape

Attribute_Definition: Feature geometry.

Attribute_Definition_Source: ESRI

Attribute_Domain_Values:

Unrepresentable_Domain: Coordinates defining the features.

Attribute:

Attribute_Label: AREA

Attribute_Definition: Area of feature in internal units squared.

Attribute_Definition_Source: ESRI

Attribute_Domain_Values:

Unrepresentable_Domain: Positive real numbers that are automatically generated.

Attribute:

Attribute_Label: PERIMETER

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Attribute_Definition_Source: ESRI

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Unrepresentable_Domain: Positive real numbers that are automatically generated.

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Attribute_Definition_Source: ESRI

Attribute_Domain_Values:

Unrepresentable_Domain:

Sequential unique whole numbers that are automatically generated.

Attribute:

Attribute_Label: SGHIST-ID

Attribute_Definition: User-defined feature number.

Attribute_Definition_Source: ESRI

Attribute:

Attribute_Label: HISTORIC

Attribute_Definition: Y = Historic, N = not historic and not sage grouse habitat

Attribute_Definition_Source: Montana Fish, Wildlife & Parks wildlife biologists and managers

Attribute:

Attribute_Label: BIOLOGIST

Attribute_Definition:

Name(s) of Montana Fish, Wildlife & Parks manager/biologist responsible for reviewing the polygon.

Attribute:

Attribute_Label: EDITDATE

Attribute_Definition:

Date the polygon was last reviewed/edited by the manager or biologist.

Attribute:

Attribute_Label: REGION

Attribute_Definition: Montana Fish, Wildlife & Parks Wildlife Administrative Region

Attribute:

Attribute_Label: ACRES

Attribute_Definition: Area in acres.

Attribute_Definition_Source: AREA item * 0.0002471044.

Distribution_Information:

Distributor:

Contact_Information:

Contact_Person_Primary:

Contact_Person: Lydia Bailey

Contact_Organization: Montana Fish, Wildlife & Parks

Contact_Position: GIS Programmer/Analyst

Contact_Address:

Address_Type: mailing and physical address

Address: 490 N Meridian Rd

City: Kalispell

State_or_Province: MT

Postal_Code: 59901

Country: USA

Contact_Voice_Telephone: 406-751-4570

Contact_Facsimile_Telephone: 406-257-0349

Contact_Electronic_Mail_Address: lbailey@state.mt.us

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Metadata_Reference_Information:

Metadata_Date: 20040817

Metadata_Contact:

Contact_Information:

Contact_Organization_Primary:

Contact_Organization: Montana Fish, Wildlife & Parks

Contact_Person: Lydia Bailey

Contact_Position: GIS Programmer/Analyst

Contact_Address:

Address_Type: mailing and physical address

Address: Montana Fish, Wildlife & Parks

Address: 490 N. Meridian Rd

City: Kalispell

State_or_Province: MT

Postal_Code: 59901

Contact_Voice_Telephone: 406-751-4570

Contact_Facsimile_Telephone: 406-257-0349

Contact_Electronic_Mail_Address: lbailey@state.mt.us

Hours_of_Service: 8 am - 5 pm (Mtn time) Mon - Fri

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Metadata_Time_Convention: local time

Metadata_Security_Information:

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