Welcome to the
Colorado Wildlife
Geographic Information Systems
Educational Project
General Information
This project is designed to provide high school students with a better
understanding of the distribution of imperiled species in Colorado and
how human development has affected these distributions. This project serves
as both an introduction to ARCVIEW and an exposure to wildlife species
issues and concepts.
More
details about this project can be found here.
Contents
What
it means to be an endangered species?
ArcView
Exercise One
Introduction to Arcview and examination of statewide Bald Eagle and
hops bluestem butterfly distributions.
ArcView
Exercise Two
Further work with Arcview and examination of Sage Grouse issues and
distributions.
ArcView
Exercise Three
Continued work with Arcview and examination of the endangered butterfly
arogos skipper in relation to occurances of big bluestem, a grass species
that is impacted by housing development.
Why
all this matters.
Metadata.
Metadata describes the data presented in a given data
set. It is data about data. Metadata provides information on the refinement
of measurements, procedures used, site descriptions, duration of data sets,
contacts and quality of data, data sources, and file descriptions. The
metadata for this project is not standardized between sources and is presented
in the format similar to that used by each source.
Natural History Summaries of
the species used in the exercises:
Project Coordinators
Jon Belak
Tammy Hamer
Ronnie Estelle
John Bradford
This project is in partial completion of NR505 at Colorado State
University.
Last Modified - 9 December 1998