Colorado Parks & Wildlife - Species Data - Greater Prairie Chicken Production Area
Creator(s):
Colorado Parks and Wildlife Biologists, District Wildlife Managers, and Researchers
Description:
GPChickenProductionArea is an ESRI SDE Feature Class showing areas which includes all nesting and brood rearing habitat of the greater prairie chicken. Currently defined as a 2.2 mile buffer zone around each active lek point in the SDE Feature Class GPChickenLeks and clipped to GPChickenOverallRange. This information was derived from field personnel. A variety of data capture techniques were used including drawing on mylar overlays at 1:50,000 scale USGS county mapsheets and implementation of the SmartBoard Interactive Whiteboard using stand-up, real-time digitizing at various scales (Cowardin, M., M. Flenner. March 2003. Maximizing Mapping Resources. GeoWorld 16(3):32-35).