U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service unpublished material vector digital data Vero Beach, FL U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service State of Florida http://www.fws.gov/verobeach/ The skink consultation area is a boundary line developed by the U.S. Fish & Wildlife Service to be used as a guideline for Endangered Species Act consultation to direct section 7 and section 10 applicants to geographic locations where impacts to sand and blue-tailed mole skinks are most likely to occur, based upon suitable soils at appropriate elevations in the counties of occurrence of the species in central Florida. Geographic Information System (GIS) data for the consultation area boundary for sand and blue-tailed mole skinks. The current consultation area map was developed to replace the 2003 consultation area map with an objectively-derived, revised version using the same biological information and data upon which the revised skink survey protocol is based. The consultation area boundary also needed to be understandable for ease of use (i.e., follow county lines or existing landscape features where possible). Endangered Species Act consultation may be needed outside of the consultation area boundary if suitable soils for skinks are present at elevations at or above 82 feet above mean sea level or if either of these listed skinks or their sign are detected. 20111001 publication date Complete As needed -82.564793 -81.089473 29.850412 27.027312 None skink; sand skink; blue-tailed mole skink; bluetail mole skink; Neoseps reynoldsi; Eumeces egregius lividus; Plestiodon reynoldsi; Plestiodon egregius lividus; consultation area None South Florida; Lake Wales Ridge; Central Ridge; Marion; Putnam; Lake; Orange; Osceola; Polk; Highlands None, but these data are not to be distributed by anyone other than the USFWS. The Florida Geographic Data Library is a collection of Geospatial Data compiled by the University of Florida GeoPlan Center with support from the Florida Department of Transportation. GIS data available in FGDL is collected from various state, federal, and other agencies (data sources) who are data stewards, producers, or publishers. The data available in FGDL may not be the most current version of the data offered by the data source. University of Florida GeoPlan Center makes no guarantees about the currentness of the data and suggests that data users check with the data source to see if more recent versions of the data exist. Furthermore, the GIS data available in the FGDL are provided 'as is'. The University of Florida GeoPlan Center makes no warranties, guaranties or representations as to the truth, accuracy or completeness of the data provided by the data sources. The University of Florida GeoPlan Center makes no representations or warranties about the quality or suitability of the materials, either expressly or implied, including but not limited to any implied warranties of merchantability, fitness for a particular purpose, or non-infringement. The University of Florida GeoPlan Center shall not be liable for any damages suffered as a result of using, modifying, contributing or distributing the materials. A note about data scale: Scale is an important factor in data usage. Certain scale datasets are not suitable for some project, analysis, or modeling purposes. Please be sure you are using the best available data. 1:24000 scale datasets are recommended for projects that are at the county level. 1:24000 data should NOT be used for high accuracy base mapping such as property parcel boundaries. 1:100000 scale datasets are recommended for projects that are at the multi-county or regional level. 1:125000 scale datasets are recommended for projects that are at the regional or state level or larger. Vector datasets with no defined scale or accuracy should be considered suspect. Make sure you are familiar with your data before using it for projects or analysis. Every effort has been made to supply the user with data documentation. For additional information, see the References section and the Data Source Contact section of this documentation. For more information regarding scale and accuracy, see our webpage at: http://geoplan.ufl.edu/education.html U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service Marilyn Knight Fish & Wildlife Biologist mailing and physical

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Vero Beach Florida 32960 US 772-562-3909 772-562-4288 Marilyn_Knight@fws.gov M-F 8-4:30 ET South Florida Ecological Services Office (SFESO), U.S. Fish & Wildlife Service NA Unclassified These data shall be obtained directly from the appropriate USFWS (see Section 6.1 Distributor) office or official USFWS internet web page for South Florida Ecological Services Office (http://www.fws.gov/verobeach/), when available. These data are not to be distributed by anyone other than the USFWS. Version 6.2 (Build 9200) ; Esri ArcGIS 10.7.1.11595 Ecological services office areas of responsibility: http://www.fws.gov/northflorida/documents/USFWS_FL_ES_Office_Service_Areas.pdf South Florida ESO: http://www.fws.gov/verobeach/ North Florida ESO: http://www.fws.gov/northflorida/ Panama City ESO: http://www.fws.gov/PanamaCity/ GeoPlan relied on the integrity of the attribute information within the original data. Excellent Deductive estimate. Since the attribute was created by a reliable software (XTools Pro 7.1), it can be assumed that it is correct. This data is provided 'as is'. GeoPlan relied on the integrity of the original data layer's topology The attributes created by ArcInfo had no defined value within this shapefile and were deleted. XTools pro 7.1 was used to create and update the attribute "ACRES". Horizontal accuracy is within the national map accuracy standards for 1:24,000 GIS data. NA vector digital data The USGS has updated most quadrangles using 1994/1995 Digital Orthophoto Quads, however, some quadrangles in roadless or very rural areas have not been updated. Additional details on this data set can be found at http://rockyweb.cr.usgs.gov/nmpstds/dlgstds.html Scale: 24,000 http://edcwww.cr.usgs.gov/doc/edchome/ndcdb/dlg_large/states.html None unknown ground condition USGS Spatial and Attribute Information Scale: accuracy judged to be 24,000, by overlaying other hydrology layers of the same scale None SFESO Spatial and Attribute Information FGDL unknown NA vector digital data Florida Counties FDEP, Tallahassee, FL FDEP Data compiled from source by FGDL and available online. Scale: 100000 0 onLine USFWS Spatial and Attribute Information Natural Resources Conservation Service (formerly SCS) vector digital data Individuals at SFWMD who worked on the SSURGO layer development included Mike Rose, Jeff Sullivan, Tim Lieberman, Kurt Saari. Scale: 24000 None 19710101 19980101 publication date Natural Resources Conservation Service (formerly SCS) Spatial and Attribute Information Scale: 24,000 None FDOT Spatial and Attribute Information Florida Department of Environmental Protection (FDEP) NA vector digital data Scale: 24,000 None FDEP Spatial and Attribute Information The skink consultation boundary was developed using counties where skinks occur (Putnam, Marion, Lake, Orange, Osceola, Highlands, Polk), elevation above sea level, and soils (Apopka, Arredondo, Archbold, Astatula, Candler, Daytona, Duette, Florahome, Gainesville, Hague, Kendrick, Lake, Millhopper, Orsino, Paola, Pomello, Satellite, St. Lucie, Tavares, Zuber). The layer of suitable skink soils (derived from "soils-sfwmd" layer) at elevations at or above 82 feet was merged with the published Lake Wales Ridge (LWR) boundary layer (Weekley et al. 2008). Weekley, C.W., E.S. Menges, and R.L Pickert. 2008. An ecological map of Florida’s Lake Wales Ridge: A new boundary delineation and an assessment of post-Columbian habitat loss. Florida Scientist 71:45-64 Sand and blue-tailed mole skink occurrence data were checked to make sure all points fell within these bounds. Where the baseline boundary crossed over into counties where skinks have never been documented, those counties were removed from the baseline boundary. This resulted in most of the western edge of the baseline boundary being along the county line. Because much of the eastern baseline boundary line was not located along county lines or physical features on the landscape that could be used to easily discern whether a particular site was "in" or "out" of the consultation area, this line was moved out to a road, county line, or lake. To do this, FDOT's "major_roads" layer was used if primary roads were relatively close to the baseline boundary. If few primary roads were close to the baseline boundary, the "detailed_roads" layer for the county of interest was added and the line was drawn to the nearest road in this layer (within reason- there were cases where it made more sense to follow a straight road rather than having the line curve excessively along secondary roads if the straight road was still very close to the baseline boundary). Note: There were a few locations where the baseline boundary was drawn slightly inside of the fixed kernel line but only if the road was very close to the fixed kernel line. Otherwise, the baseline boundary is just outside of the fixed kernel boundary. A few portions of the baseline boundary were drawn to the edges of lakes rather than to roads or county lines. The "south_florida-major_hydrology" layer was used for lake boundaries where they occurred close to the baseline boundary from Highlands County north through Orange County. Because this hydrology layer did not include lakes in North Florida, the "fl_lakes_ares_fdep" layer was used for the lake in Putnam County that was near enough to the baseline boundary to be taken out of the consultation area. Outlier skink soils were removed from this layer (individual polygons or groups of polygons that were >2 km from other skink soils). These totaled 136 polygons. The Bombing Range Ridge was also removed because surveys have never documented skinks on this ridge. The revised baseline boundary for the skink consultation area was then developed using Hawth's Tools. Specifically, the input layer (skink soils at appropriate elevation merged with the LWR boundary) was converted to points. A fixed kernel analysis (bivariate normal, 100m grid) was used to create a raster distribution layer of the input point layer, and then a 'percent volume contour' boundary (parameter - 100%) was derived from the raster layer. The fixed kernel analysis generated a line around 1) all suitable soils at appropriate elevation, and 2) the LWR boundary, to create a line that included 100% of the data (minus the outliers). GeoPlan received this dataset from the United States Fish and Wildlife Service via email on September 7, 2012. The data downloaded was in shapefile format and was in the following projection: Albers HPGN. - Added DESCRIPT field - Added FGDLAQDATE - Added ACRES - Added fields OFFICE, CON_ADD, CON_CITY, CON_ZIP, CON_PHONE - Deleted Area and Perimeter Ecological services office associated with consultation area was derived using info provided at: http://www.fws.gov/northflorida/documents/USFWS_FL_ES_Office_Service_Areas.pdf Consultation area polygon was cut using the construct features command in ArcMap to represent which ecological services office serves that particular area. Features were then dissolved on the field office. Layer was renamed ca_skink from skinks-consultation_area GeoPlan 20120919 Vector GT-polygon composed of chains 2 NAD 1983 HARN Florida GDL Albers 24.0 31.5 -84.0 24.0 400000.0 0.0 coordinate pair 0.0001 0.0001 meter D North American 1983 HARN GRS 1980 6378137.0 298.257222101 CA_SKINK_JUL11 CA_SKINK_JUL11.DBF USFWS OBJECTID Internal feature number. ESRI Sequential unique whole numbers that are automatically generated. Shape Feature geometry. ESRI Coordinates defining the features. OFFICE Florida ecological services office responsible for consultation area. GeoPlan CON_ADD Office contact address. GeoPlan CON_CITY Office contact city. GeoPlan CON_ZIP Office contact zip. GeoPlan CON_PHONE Office contact phone. GeoPlan ACRES Area of polygon in acres. ESRI DESCRIPT GeoPlan Calculated Field "Skink Consultation Area" GeoPlan FGDLAQDATE Date GeoPlan acquired data. GeoPlan AUTOID Unique ID added by GeoPlan GeoPlan SHAPE.AREA Area in meters GeoPlan SHAPE.LEN Perimeter in meters GeoPlan ACRES is the only attribute field. ACRES calculated by the calculate geometry function in ArcGIS 9.3.1. Florida Geographic Data Library (FGDL) mailing

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Vero Beach Florida 32960 US 772-562-3909 Marilyn_Knight@fws.gov M-F 8-4:30 ET FGDC Content Standard for Digital Geospatial Metadata FGDC-STD-001-1998 local time NA Unclassified NA