Malheur National Wildlife Refuge: Invasive Plant Prioritization Data, 2021

Malheur National Wildlife Refuge data from a 2021 workshop using the Invasive Plant Inventory and Early Detection Prioritization Tool (IPIEDT). The tool calculates numerical scores from user responses to rank invasive plant species and areas for inventory priority. The Department of the Interior provides the workshop results as archived CSV tables and a downloadable Access Database tool.

Use Cases

• Ranking invasive plant species for management action based on calculated priority scores.
• Prioritizing geographic areas for inventory efforts based on area scores.
• Archiving workshop decision logic for future reference against new threats.
• Analyzing the relationship between species descriptions and their assigned numerical priority values.

Strengths

• Data is structured for prioritization via a defined scoring system.
• Results are archived to preserve workshop outcomes even if the master database changes.
• Available in multiple open formats including CSV and a tool (Access Database).

Limitations

• Column-level documentation is absent; field semantics must be inferred after download.
• Row count is unknown, which may limit suitability assessment.
• Freshness should be verified; the last metadata update is dated 2026-03-04.

Provenance

Source

Department of the Interior

Collection Method

Data tables generated from a workshop using the IPIEDT Access Database tool.

Time Range

2021

Freshness

Last updated 2026-03-04 08:10:43.962675; freshness should be verified

Geography

Malheur National Wildlife Refuge