Description: Strategic conservation planning for broad, multi-species landscapes benefits from a data-driven approach that emphasizes persistence of all priority species’ populations and utilized landscapes, while simultaneously accounting for human uses. This dataset represents one of many assessments for priority fishes of Texas and of the Great Plains of the United States. The spatial units represented by this dataset are intended to indicate Native Fish Conservation Areas (NFCAs) for Texas and the Great Plains. Two separate analyses went into building these NFCA units. For Texas, the analysis report can be found here: https://repositories.lib.utexas.edu/handle/2152/32905 and for the Great Plains NFCAs, the report can be found here: https://repositories.lib.utexas.edu/handle/2152/27744
Copyright Text: Great Plains Landscape Conservation Cooperative Texas Parks and Wildlife Department University of Texas at Austin Josh Perkin Tim Birdsong Gary Garrett Ben Labay Dean Hendrickson Arthur Cooper