Data and Tools

• A revised toolset, entitled "Management Unit Prioritization Tools", consisting of two separate tools; the Conservation Objective Prioritization Tool and the Overall Prioritization Tool were developed.
• The development of these decision support tools give resource managers the ability to make thoughtful and strategic choices about where to spend their limited management resources
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Curve Fit is an ArcMap 10.1 (10.2 forthcoming) tool that:

• performs pixel level regression analysis on a series of raster datasets
• is capable of calculating both linear and nonlinear regressions
• allows the user to constrain parameters for nonlinear models
• generates raster surfaces representing parameter estimate, model fit, and multi-model inference 
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Where are most important places to direct conservation effort? Such a simple question is not answered simply. There are a myriad of priorities, constraints, and capacities, both scientific and socio-economic, which in combination guide the allocation of management effort. An honest accounting of these priorities, constraints, and capacities is essential for efficient, effective action.

•  Allows managers and planners to rapidly assess landscape attributes and link these attributes with species/habitat information
• Provides resource managers a means to compare the conservation potential of local management units with that of the surrounding county, state, or region
• Can be applied to any taxa or suite of taxa and any landscape, given that spatial data.
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This dataset includes spatial locations in the Pacific Northwest where streamflow observations were recorded. For the purpose of this investigation, all streamflow observations were converted into wet or dry indicator values.