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This is a shapefile showing occupied and emphasis habitat for willow flycatcher in the LTBMU. The emphasis habitat was derived by finding the areas where there was deciduous riparian veg adjacent to wet meadows larger than 14.9 acres. I used the LTBMU Riparian Vegetation layer for both of these because this layer is more accurate than CWHR. I also added the areas determined to be good habitat from the wifl hab assessment conducted in 2015. These areas were ground truthed to be good habitat, but most of them have not been surveyed. I further clipped all of these areas to within 5 miles of known detections and then clipped out non-FS lands. Even though this layer does not strictly adhere to the regional definition of emphasis habitat, I feel that it is more accurate, and therefore meets the intent. |