Custom Data Request ID/Name: SARP_DRT-595_2022
Organization/Individual Requesting Data: Southeast Aquatic Resource Partnership (SARP) is requesting tabular data for groups of species within HUC12 watersheds for states in the west, northeast, and midwest.
SARP is a regional collaboration of natural resource and science agencies, conservation organizations, and private interests developed to strengthen the management and conservation of aquatic resources in the southeastern United States. SARP is a joint party committee created by the SEAFWA Directors to complete the mission of conserving aquatic habitats across political boundaries (more under SEAFWA http://www.seafwa.org/committees/southeast_aquatic_resources_partnership/).
Purpose: SARP has an Aquatic Connectivity Program and they are planning to use the data to guide inventories and the prioritization of dam and road related barriers for removal, based on ecological metrics. In addition, SARP will use our data to provide the number of threatened and endangered species, number of state listed species, and number of species of greatest conservation need within a HUC12 in their SARP tool. Visit the tool here: National Aquatic Barrier Inventory & Prioritization Tool (aquaticbarriers.org). Species names will not be visible in the tool.
Scope/Delivery of Data: HUC 12 summaries of aquatic species (TE, SGCN) for mussels, fishes, and crayfishes. Data was provided as excel tables with the HUC12 code, species name, columns for SGCN and TE with a Y for those that fall into these categories for the following states: WY, ID, OR, WA, IA, KS, NE, ND, SD, NM, CO and UT. The data was provided in December of 2022.
Data Sensitivity: We are not delivering spatial data to SARP (only tabular data listed above), they are just reporting the number of species by HUC 12 on their tool (no species names). We don’t think there are any data sensitivity issues.