Bear Lake NWR and Oxford Slough WPA: Invasive Plant Inventory and Early Detection Prioriti

2021 data from a workshop-based tool for prioritizing invasive plant inventory and detection in the Bear Lake National Wildlife Refuge and Oxford Slough Waterfowl Production Area. The dataset contains area and species scores calculated from user responses to descriptive questions, with higher scores indicating higher priority. It is provided by the Department of the Interior and includes CSV exports and the original Access Database tool.

Use Cases

• Ranking invasive plant species for management action based on calculated species scores.
• Prioritizing geographic areas for survey efforts based on calculated area scores.
• Archiving workshop results for comparison against future database updates.
• Analyzing the relationship between descriptive field conditions and numerical priority values.

Strengths

• Includes the original Access Database tool for interactive prioritization.
• Data is archived to preserve workshop results independent of future database changes.
• Outputs are provided in open CSV format alongside the tool.

Limitations

• Column-level documentation is absent; field semantics must be inferred after download.
• Row count is unknown, which may limit suitability assessment.

Provenance

Source

Department of the Interior

Collection Method

Generated from an Invasive Plant Species and Area Prioritization Workshop using the IPIEDT Access Database tool.

Time Range

2021

Freshness

Last updated 2026-03-04 08:11:22.774582; freshness should be verified.

Geography

Bear Lake National Wildlife Refuge and Oxford Slough Waterfowl Production Area