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

US Army Garrison Alaska (USAG Alaska) requires habitat and association information in order to revise current remediation and restoration methods to minimize impacts. The USAG Alaska has invested resources to obtain land classification and habitat information as well as bird and bat habitat use and procuring high quality imagery and LiDAR data to assess changes to habitat over time. However, many of these studies are over 20 years old and the relevant data has never been collated into a digital format for use in ​management planning. This project is collaboration between the Alaska Cooperative Fish and Wildlife Research Unit, the US Fish and Wildlife Service, and the USAG Alaska. The proposed project will collate existing data and produce a geodatabase critical for evaluating future projects. The information will lead to increased mitigation success while adapting to a changing climate.