CRITICAL WILDLIFE AREA BOUNDARIES IN FLORIDA

Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission-Fish and Wildlife Research Institute 20180327 CRITICAL WILDLIFE AREA BOUNDARIES IN FLORIDA - MARCH 2018 vector digital data St. Petersburg, FL Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission-Fish and Wildlife Research Institute State of Florida http://geodata.myfwc.com/pages/downloads Critical Wildlife Areas (CWAs) are established by the FWC under a Florida Administration Code rule to protect important wildlife concentrations from human disturbance during critical periods of their life cycles, such as nesting or migration. For each CWA, the boundaries and periods of time when portions of the area may be posted are defined in the CWA establishment order. Public access is prohibited within CWAs if posted, “Closed to public access.” Dogs, vehicles and vessels are also prohibited from posted areas. The boundary may be larger than the posted area due to the dynamic nature of habitat structure and use. Thus, the area closed each year may change. To depict Critical Wildlife Area Boundaries. Because of the number of caves includes in the Withlacoochee Caves CWA and the sensitivity of the cave sites, the Withlacoochee Caves CWA is represented by a larger, more general polygon of the Withlacoochee State Forest. This whole area is not representative of the CWA establishment order. 20180327 publication date Complete As needed -85.686789 -79.925784 30.592589 24.467044 ISO 19115 Topic Category boundaries environment None critical wildlife area GIS None Florida statewide These data are unrestricted. Where possible, always acquire this dataset directly from FWC as other sources may have altered the original data. Users are encouraged to read and fully comprehend the metadata record prior to using these data. Please acknowledge the Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission (FWC) as the data source for any products developed from these data. Users should be aware that comparison with other data sets for the same area may be inaccurate due to inconsistencies resulting from changes in mapping conventions, data collection techniques, and computer processes over time. FWC shall not be liable for improper or incorrect use of these data. Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission-Fish and Wildlife Research Institute GIS Librarian GIS Data Librarian mailing and physical

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Saint Petersburg Florida 33701 727-896-8626 727-893-1679 GISLibrarian@MyFWC.com CWA Coordinator FWRI-DC Available without restriction Version 6.2 (Build 9200) ; Esri ArcGIS 10.7.1.11595 FFWCC Critical Wildlife Areas: http://myfwc.com/conservation/terrestrial/cwa/ GeoPlan relied on the integrity of the attribute information within the original data. Logically consistent. All attribute values fall within defined values. These data are complete as of the data available to FWRI in March 2018. These data are as horrizontally accurate as the establishment order coordinates and/or the land surveys provided to the FWC GIS Librarian by the CWA Coordinator. This data is provided 'as is' and its vertical positional accuracy has not been verified by GeoPlan 0 onLine Spatial and Attribute Information KMLs were provided for 17 areas and 1 shapefile for one area by the CWA Coordinator. The KMLs were converted to shapefile using the KML to Layer conversion tool in ArcMap 10.2.2. This shapefile was merged with the provided shapefile. Then projected into the current coordinate system using the Project data management tool with the WGS_1984_(ITRF00)_To_NAD_1983_HARN transformation. FFWCC-FWRI 20150219 Attribute fields were matched between the polygon and point datasets representing FWC's CWAs. Any missing attributes were created and copied over from companion dataset. FFWCC-FWRI 20160614 Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission-Fish and Wildlife Research Institute GISLibrarian GIS Data Librarian mailing and physical

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St. Petersburg Florida 33701 727-896-8626 727-893-1697 GISLibrarian@MyFWC.com KMLs were provided for 14 areas by the CWA Coordinator. The KMLs were converted to shapefile using the KML to Layer conversion tool in ArcMap 10.4.1 and then merged and projected to NAD83(2011)_FloridaGDL_Albers. This shapefile was appended to the previous version of the CWAs. Attributes were populated using an excel sheet provided by the CWA Coordinator. CWA_desc and Class fields were added to facilitate more accurate mapping. These attributes were filled using information gained from the individual CWA establishment orders. Metadata were updated. FFWCC-FWRI 20161123 Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission-Fish and Wildlife Research Institute GISLibrarian GIS Data Librarian mailing and physical

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St. Petersburg Florida 33701 727-896-8626 727-893-1697 GISLibrarian@MyFWC.com The shapefile was updates with the below information: 1) Useppa Oyster Bar Critical Wildlife Area (Lee County) was re-established and retained as is. 2) Port Orange Critical Wildlife Area (Volusia County) was established and digitized according to the coordinates included in the establishement order CWA 17-19 3) The Withlacoochee Caves Critical Wildlife Area is represented by the portion of the Withlacoochee State Forest where the included caves are located. This is to geographically represent a point feature in a polygon dataset and to generalize the cave locations to protect the sensitive resource. Note that the CWA protection does not apply to the whole polygon, only the caves listed in the establishment order are protected as described. 4) Tyndall Critical Wildlife Area boundaries have been updated and refined according to a land title search completed on December 15, 2017. FFWCC-FWRI 20180327 Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission-Fish and Wildlife Research Institute GISLibrarian GIS Data Librarian mailing and physical

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St. Petersburg Florida 33701 727-896-8626 727-893-1697 GISLibrarian@MyFWC.com GeoPlan downloaded this data in shapefile format from the Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission-Fish and Wildlife Research Institute FTP site on June 27, 2018. The data was received as a shapefile in projection: NAD_1983_2011_Florida_GDL_Albers. The dataset was then projected from NAD_1983_2011_Florida_GDL_Albers to FGDL Albers HARN using NAD_1983_To_HARN_Florida transformation. - Reprojected data to FGDL Albers HARN - Added a DESCRIPT field to attribute table based on NAME - Added a FGDLAQDATE field based on date received from source - Added fields WEBSITE and NEW_RE_CWA containing web links to source info - Uppercased all fields except for WEBSITE and NEW_RE_CWA - Changed name from Critical_Wildlife_Areas_fl_poly to cwabnd_mar18 GeoPlan 20180709 Vector GT-polygon composed of chains 38 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 CWABND_MAR18 CWABND_MAR18.DBF FFWCC-FWRI OBJECTID Internal feature number. ESRI Sequential unique whole numbers that are automatically generated. Shape Feature geometry. ESRI Coordinates defining the features. Name Name of CWA FFWCC CloseDates Dates when CWA area is closed to public access FFWCC FocalSpp List of species the CWA was established to protect FFWCC COUNTY County in which CWA is located FFWCC CWA_NO Establishment Order number FFWCC CWA_desc Summary of CWA Establishment order text FFWCC Class Type of polygon, used for cartographic purposes FFWCC BOUNDARY the greater area of CWA where a sub-section may be closed to public access CLOSURE the portion of the established CWA that may be posted closed to public access WEBSITE Critical Wildlife Areas (CWAs) FWC website link GeoPlan NEW_RE_CWA New Critical Wildlife Areas (CWAs) PDF link GeoPlan ACRES Area of CWA in acres Esri DESCRIPT Field added by FGDL based on NAME GeoPlan FGDLAQDATE The date FGDL acquired the data from the source GeoPlan AUTOID Unique ID added by GeoPlan GeoPlan SHAPE.AREA Area in meters GeoPlan SHAPE.LEN Perimeter in meters GeoPlan Florida Geographic Data Library (FGDL) mailing

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