The Utah Division of Wildlife Resources (UDWR) is the state's primary agency for collecting, maintaining, and evaluating sensitive species occurrences, regulatory compliance, and natural resources information. UDWR proposes to utilize the existing node infrastructure at the Utah Department of Environmental Quality (completed under a previous Exchange Network Grant) to implement a data flow for biodiversity data maintained by the Utah Natural Heritage Program within UDWR. The proposed project will integrate geospatial data with sensitive species and habitat information into a geospatial database to be shared through the EPA Exchange network. The second phase of the project will design and implement the database into a GIS-based web service for application requests concerning the location of animal and plant species for making environmental regulatory decisions.
Project Contacts:
Utah Division of Wildlife Resources
Carmen Bailey – Impact Analysis Coordinator
Sarah Lindsey – Database Information Manager
Ben Sutter – Heritage Database Zoologist
Gary Ogborn – GIS Manager
Automated Geographic Reference Center
Bert Granberg – GIS Solutions Specialist, AGRC
Jeannie Watanabe -- AGRC Project Manager.
NatureServe
Lori Scott –Web Services Program Manager, NatureServe
