Camas National Wildlife Refuge: Invasive Plant Inventory and Early Detection Prioritizatio

The IPIEDT is an Access Database tool used to prioritize invasive plant species and areas for inventory at Camas National Wildlife Refuge. A workshop in October 2019 defined initial priorities, and an updated species prioritization incorporating data from 2020 to 2022 was completed in 2022. The Department of the Interior archives the resulting data tables as CSV files and the database tool.

Use Cases

• Calculate species priority scores based on user responses to descriptive questions.
• Generate ranked lists of areas for invasive plant inventory based on calculated area scores.
• Archive workshop prioritization results to preserve them against future database changes.
• Update species prioritization rankings based on new inventory and monitoring data.

Strengths

• Includes an updated species prioritization incorporating data from 2020 to 2022.
• Results from a 2019 workshop involving refuge staff and local weed experts are preserved.
• Data tables are offered as open source CSV files alongside the database tool.

Limitations

• Column-level documentation is absent; field semantics must be inferred after download.
• Row count is unknown, which may limit suitability assessment.
• Last updated 2026-03-04 08:24:02.497233; freshness should be verified.

Provenance

Source

Department of the Interior

Collection Method

Data tables generated from a prioritization workshop and subsequent updates.

Time Range

Workshop in October 2019, update incorporating data from 2020 to 2022.

Freshness

Last updated 2026-03-04 08:24:02.497233.

Geography

Camas National Wildlife Refuge.