Name: Rice - Wet: Contig. to Aquatic Corridor (Restoration Value)
Display Field:
Type: Raster Layer
Geometry Type: null
Description: Rice cropland on wet soils within the Mississippi River Basin, scored for relative restoration value, contiguous to an aquatic corridor, minimum size - 1 acre. Minimum field size of 5 acres used as input. In this case a "wet soil" is a Gridded SSURGO mapunit where "pwsl1pomu" (Potential Wetland Landscape) is at least 60 or at least 50 and "drclassdcd" (Drainage Class - Dominant Condition) is poorly or very poorly drained. These mapunits represent those with the highest wetland potential based on these conservative criteria. Drainage class criteria was included to account for mapunit inconsistencies across county/state lines. CDL 2013/Gridded SSURGO 2014. Wetland restoration values were calculated by adding together values according to whether a site overlapped the following areas: NWI wetland feature; low-lying area; organic soil; marginal soil; low slope. Areas within NWI features, within a low-lying area, with organic soils, or in very flat areas (slope < 1%) were weighted higher. Corridors generated by The Conservation Fund as part of the Midwest Wind Energy Multi-Species Habitat Conservation Plan (MSHCP) and NiSource MSHCP processes. Maximum score = 8.
Copyright Text: USDA-NASS Cropland Data Layer, 2013
NRCS Gridded SSURGO, 2014
The Conservation Fund, 2015. Point of Contact: Michael Schwartz | Email: MichaelSchwartz@conservationfund.org | Phone: 304-876-2815
Name: Rice - Wet: Contig. to Wetland Corridor (Restoration Value)
Display Field:
Type: Raster Layer
Geometry Type: null
Description: Rice cropland on wet soils within the Mississippi River Basin, scored for relative restoration value, contiguous to a wetland corridor, minimum size - 1 acre. Minimum field size of 5 acres used as input. In this case a "wet soil" is a Gridded SSURGO mapunit where "pwsl1pomu" (Potential Wetland Landscape) is at least 60 or at least 50 and "drclassdcd" (Drainage Class - Dominant Condition) is poorly or very poorly drained. These mapunits represent those with the highest wetland potential based on these conservative criteria. Drainage class criteria was included to account for mapunit inconsistencies across county/state lines. CDL 2013/Gridded SSURGO 2014. Wetland restoration values were calculated by adding together values according to whether a site overlapped the following areas: NWI wetland feature; low-lying area; organic soil; marginal soil; low slope. Areas within NWI features, within a low-lying area, with organic soils, or in very flat areas (slope < 1%) were weighted higher. Corridors generated by The Conservation Fund as part of the Midwest Wind Energy Multi-Species Habitat Conservation Plan (MSHCP) and NiSource MSHCP processes. Maximum score = 8.
Copyright Text: USDA-NASS Cropland Data Layer, 2013
NRCS Gridded SSURGO, 2014
The Conservation Fund, 2015. Point of Contact: Michael Schwartz | Email: MichaelSchwartz@conservationfund.org | Phone: 304-876-2815
Description: Rice cropland on wet soils within the Mississippi River Basin, scored for relative restoration value, minimum size - 1 acre. Minimum field size of 5 acres used as input. In this case a "wet soil" is a Gridded SSURGO mapunit where "pwsl1pomu" (Potential Wetland Landscape) is at least 60 or at least 50 and "drclassdcd" (Drainage Class - Dominant Condition) is poorly or very poorly drained. These mapunits represent those with the highest wetland potential based on these conservative criteria. Drainage class criteria was included to account for mapunit inconsistencies across county/state lines. CDL 2013/Gridded SSURGO 2014. Wetland restoration values were calculated by adding together values according to whether a site overlapped the following areas: NWI wetland feature; low-lying area; organic soil; marginal soil; low slope. Areas within NWI features, within a low-lying area, with organic soils, or in very flat areas (slope < 1%) were weighted higher. Maximum score = 8.
Copyright Text: USDA-NASS Cropland Data Layer, 2013
NRCS Gridded SSURGO, 2014
The Conservation Fund, 2015. Point of Contact: Michael Schwartz | Email: MichaelSchwartz@conservationfund.org | Phone: 304-876-2815
Description: Rice cropland on wet soil, minimum size - 1 acre within the Mississippi River Basin. In this case a "wet soil" is a Gridded SSURGO mapunit where "pwsl1pomu" (Potential Wetland Landscape) is at least 60 or at least 50 and "drclassdcd" (Drainage Class - Dominant Condition) is poorly or very poorly drained. These mapunits represent those with the highest wetland potential based on these conservative criteria. Drainage class criteria was included to account for mapunit inconsistencies across county/state lines. CDL 2013/Gridded SSURGO 2014.
Copyright Text: USDA-NASS Cropland Data Layer, 2013
NRCS Gridded SSURGO, 2014
The Conservation Fund, 2015. Point of Contact: Michael Schwartz | Email: MichaelSchwartz@conservationfund.org | Phone: 304-876-2815
Description: Rice cropland on marginal wet soils within the Mississippi River Basin, minimum size - 1 acre. In this case a "wet soil" is a Gridded SSURGO mapunit where "pwsl1pomu" (Potential Wetland Landscape) is at least 60 or at least 50 and "drclassdcd" (Drainage Class - Dominant Condition) is poorly or very poorly drained. These mapunits represent those with the highest wetland potential based on these conservative criteria. Drainage class criteria were included to account for mapunit inconsistencies across county/state lines. A "marginal soil" is any area where the National Commodity Crop Productivity Index (Overall) value within a given field is less than 0.5. Minimum rice field size of 5 acres used as input. Derived from the intersection of "Rice on Marginal Soil" with "Rice on Wet Soil". CDL 2013/Gridded SSURGO 2014.
Copyright Text: The Conservation Fund, 2017. Point of Contact: Michael Schwartz | Email: mschwartz@conservationfund.org | Phone: 304-876-2815
Name: Rice - Marginal: Contig. to Aquatic Corridor
Display Field:
Type: Raster Layer
Geometry Type: null
Description: Rice cropland (minimum size - 5 acres) on marginal soils contiguous to a forest patch at least 10 acres in area and contiguous to an aquatic corridor. In this case "marginal soil" is where the National Commodity Crop Productivity Index (Overall) value within a given field is less than 0.5. CDL 2013/NLCD 2011/Gridded SSURGO 2014. Corridors generated by The Conservation Fund as part of the Midwest Wind Energy Multi-Species Habitat Conservation Plan (MSHCP) and NiSource MSHCP processes.
Copyright Text: The Conservation Fund, 2017. Point of Contact: Michael Schwartz | Email: mschwartz@conservationfund.org | Phone: 304-876-2815
Description: Rice cropland (minimum size - 5 acres) on marginal soils contiguous to a forest patch at least 10 acres in area and contiguous to a forest corridor. In this case "marginal soil" is where the National Commodity Crop Productivity Index (Overall) value within a given field is less than 0.5. CDL 2013/NLCD 2011/Gridded SSURGO 2014. Corridors generated by The Conservation Fund as part of the Midwest Wind Energy Multi-Species Habitat Conservation Plan (MSHCP) and NiSource MSHCP processes.
Copyright Text: The Conservation Fund, 2017. Point of Contact: Michael Schwartz | Email: mschwartz@conservationfund.org | Phone: 304-876-2815
Description: Rice cropland (minimum size - 5 acres) on marginal soils contiguous to a forest patch at least 10 acres in area. In this case "marginal soil" is where the National Commodity Crop Productivity Index (Overall) value within a given field is less than 0.5. CDL 2013/NLCD 2011/Gridded SSURGO 2014.
Copyright Text: The Conservation Fund, 2017. Point of Contact: Michael Schwartz | Email: mschwartz@conservationfund.org | Phone: 304-876-2815
Description: Rice (2013 Cropland Data Layer) areas at least 5 acres in size, with National Commodity Crop Productivity Index (Overall) values less than 0.5, located within the Mississippi River Basin.
Copyright Text: The Conservation Fund, 2017. Point of Contact: Michael Schwartz | Email: mschwartz@conservationfund.org | Phone: 304-876-2815
Description: Rice fields at least 5 acres in size from the 2013 Cropland Data Layer within the Mississippi River Basin.
Copyright Text: USDA-NASS Cropland Data Layer, 2013
The Conservation Fund, 2015. Point of Contact: Michael Schwartz | Email: MichaelSchwartz@conservationfund.org | Phone: 304-876-2815