Cooperative Fish and Wildlife Research Units Program: Wisconsin Wildlife
Education, Research and Technical Assistance for Managing Our Natural Resources

To more effectively manage federally endangered, threatened, and at-risk species, The United States Fish and Wildlife Service (USFWS) seeks to use data it has collected from permit holders to help address critical recovery and management needs. To accomplish this task, reproducible data pipelines and workflows must be developed and implemented that can deliver a standardized data product easily vetted and used by USFWS biologists and field staff. These need to be extensible to additional taxa beyond the scope of this project and can ultimately serve as potential precursors to larger data standardization and database initiatives currently underway at the USFWS.

This project is a collaboration between the USGS, the University of Wisconsin - Madison and the USFWS Region 3 Ecological Services program. Under this collaboration, data pipelines and workflows will be developed for freshwater mussels, bats and bee USFWS permit data. A key output from these efforts will be an updatable spatial database available to staff biologists tasked with managing these species that can be easily maintained by USFWS staff.