U. S. Fish and Wildlife Service

Interactive Mapping Sites

Internet Map Servers (IMS) allow users to create maps and do some analysis without needed specialized software or extensive training. The sites listed below show current FWS applications of this technology.

U.S. Fish & Wildlife Service

Critical Habitat Portal - Information regardingThreatened and Endangered Species Critical Habitat designation across the United States.
ECOS -  Environmental Conservation On-Line System; contaminants and mapping information for FWS sites.
Great Lakes lake sturgeon tributary database and Geographic Information System (GIS) - Interactive GIS application and metadatabase designed to compile the available lake sturgeon data sources to help focus restoration and research activities on priority lake sturgeon waters.
Migratory Bird Data Center - The U. S. Geological Survey (USGS) and the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service (FWS) collaborated in establishng the Bird Conservation Node as part of the National Biological Information Infrastructure (NBII). The Bird Conservation Node provides access to bird population and habitat information relevent to population management, conservation planning, and evaluation.
National Wetlands Inventory (NWI), U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service - Data from the Wetlands Master Geodatabase.
Region 7 Migratory Birds, North Pacific Seabird Colony Database - Monitors, manages, and studies loons, seabirds, waterfowl, raptors, shorebirds, and landbirds to help conserve migratory bird populations and their habitats for the benefit and enjoyment of the public. The Interactive Map creates a map that indicates size and location of seabird colonies of selected species.

Samples of Other Sites

The National Map - The product of a consortium of Federal, State, and local partners who provide geospatial data to enhance America's ability to access, integrate, and apply geospatial data at global, national, and local scales.
David Rumsey Historical Map Collection - Special GIS Browser that allows detailed overlays of historical maps and current geospatial data.
EPA On-line Mapping Application - Creates GIF files that can be downloaded; several other options too.
GAPServe mapping application built to allow users to view the GAP Data layers across state boundaries.
    OGC Web Map Services from GAP, 143 web map services, defined by theme, or divided by family of species for vertebrates.
Geography Network - An online resource for finding and sharing geographic content, including maps and data, from many of the world's leading providers.
Geospatial Data Gateway - Natural Resource Conservation Service's (NRCS) One Stop Shopping site for natural resources or environmental data.
Kentucky Breeding Bird Atlas - On-line mapping.
University of Minnesota MapServer - An OpenSource development environment for building spatially enabled Internet applications. The software builds upon other popular OpenSource or freeware systems like Shapelib, FreeType, Proj.4, libTIFF, Perl and others. MapServer will run where most commercial systems won't or can't, on Linux/Apache platforms. MapServer is known to compile on most UNIXes and will run under Windows NT/98/95.
Minnesota Department of Natural Resources - Interactive maps for Recreation and Natural resource management.
Texas CLEAR Project - The CLEAR system allows you to view different types of data such as soils, vegetation, streams, roads, and more as part of an interactive mapping system. 
USGS Web Mapping Portal - Hosted at the EROS Data Center by the USGS. Here you will find public web map services, and interfaces developed at the center.
USGS's Natural Hazards Support System (NHSS) - comprehensive overview of current natural hazards events for the public as well as our Federal, State and local partners.

For additional information regarding this Web page, contact Chris Lett, in the Division of Information Resources and Technology Management, at Chris_Lett@fws.gov

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