HEADWATERS ECONOMICS GEOGRAPHIC DATA LIBRARY DOCUMENTATION TITLE: Geodataset Name: na_carnivore Geodataset Type: SHAPE Geodataset Feature: POLYGON GENERAL DESCRIPTION: This dataset shows the number of large carnivores that occur in western North America. DATA SOURCE(S): NatureServe Bruce Patternson Wes Sechrest Marcelo Tognelli Gerardo Ceballos The Nature Conservancy Conservation International World Wildlife Fund Environment Canada Mike Phillips Interagency Grizzly Bear Committee Scale of Original Source Maps: 1:1,000,000 Date of Original Source Maps: 2002 and 2004 GEODATASET EXTENT: Western North America FEATURE ATTRIBUTE TABLES CODES AND VALUES: ITEM ITEM DESCRIPTION NA DATA LINEAGE SUMMARY: Dataset showing the species distributions of black bear, brown bear, fisher, lynx, marten, moutain lion, wolves, and wolverines were provided by CommEn Space. The datasets were converted to binary grids and added together to produce the final dataset. MAP PROJECTION PARAMETERS PROJECTION ALBERS CONICAL EQUAL AREA DATUM NAD83 UNITS METERS SPHEROID GRS1980 PARAMETERS 1st standard parallel 29 30 0.000 2nd standard parallel 45 30 0.000 central meridian -96 00 0.000 latitude of projection's origin 37 30 0.000 false easting (meters) 0.00000 false northing (meters) 0.00000 DATA SOURCES CONTACT(S): Name: NatureServe Address: 1101 Wilson Blvd, 15th Floor Arlington, VA 22209 Web site: http://www.natureserve.org Contact Person: Bruce Young Phone: (506) 645-6231 Fax: (506) 645-6231 Email: bruce_young@natureserve.org Name: Linda Phillips Address: Department of Ecology Montana State University PO Box 173460 Bozeman, MT 59717-3460 Web site: http://www.homepage.montana.edu/~hansen/ Phone: (406) 994-4548 Fax: (406) 994-3190 Email: lphillips@montana.edu Name: Interagency Grizzly Bear Committee (IGBC) Web site: http://www.fs.fed.us/r1/wildlife/igbc/ HEADWATERS ECONOMICS CONTACT: Name: Headwaters Economics Geographic Data Library Abbr. Name: HEGDL Address: Headwaters Economics 566 Highland St. Helena, Montana 59601 Web site: http://www.headwaterseconomics.org Contact Person: Patty Gude Phone: (406)599-7425 Email: patty@headwaterseconomics.org