Updates based on manager feedback

[mhallerud]

@wally-mac @bangen @banderson1618

Just wanted to get some maps up on Git before our meeting tomorrow:

1. Adding land ownership to the layer package and assigning land ownership to each reach

• How do we want to assign symbology in the layer package? By agency (USFS, BLM, USFWS, BoR, etc.) or just federal, state, private, and unknown?

• Do we want just the input land ownership polygons or also an intermediate polyline showing land ownership for reach?

2. Calculating distance from private land for each reach

• Do we want to include these values into the conservation restoration model somehow?

3. Finding points of diversion and distance to points of diversion

• I'm having a harder time with this one. Using Intersect_analysis gives output with canal reaches next to each other flagged as points of diversion:

• I also decided to only use the perennial network for this, since I'm assuming that's where water is being pulled from.

• Questions going forward: Do we want to include points of diversion in the risk model, or just in the layer package?

4. Adding conservation restoration field based on dams present and estimated capacity

• Should the threshold for being classified as conservation (observed densities are 25% of capacity) be lowered at all?

• Should this be included in the conservation restoration model or stay as a separate layer?

[wally-mac]

Hi @mhallerud,

First off, let's try these changes out in a development branch and run it in the Jordan watershed, Idaho. Below are my short and sweet answers to your questions:

1. By agency (USFS, BLM, USFWS, BoR, etc.)
2. I think we want to include these values in a new layer called "priority beaver translocation", which will be a copy of conservation restoration model plus these new outputs.
3. Similar to "stream crossings" we want "points of diversion" in the risk model.
4. Let's try 25% of capacity as a threshold starting point. Let's keep as a separate layer.