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National Wild and Scenic Rivers: Geodatabase and Webmaps
Susan Rosebrough, National Park Service
Acknowledgments: Joan Harn, Sandy Margriter, Peter Bonsall, National Park
Service; Stephen Chesterton, Steve Boutcher, Andrew Keske, United States
Forest Service; Cathi Bailey, Ilana Cohen, Alex Yetsko, Bureau of Land
Management; Dan Haas, US Fish and Wildlife; Caitlin Scopel, Jennifer Vaughan-
Gibson
Purpose & Uses
● Comprehensive interagency database of all WSRs
● Better resolution of geospatial data
(current data is 1:2million; new is 1:24,000)
● Interactive maps
Current phase for Interagency Effort:
● River Layer: ● Responsible agencies● Management framework ● Federal register notice● Date of designation● Link to rivers.gov● Documents
● Segment Layer ● River classification (wild, scenic,
recreational) ● Outstandingly Remarkable
Values● Miles● Agency
Products:
● New GIS files downloadable on rivers.gov, USGS National Hydrography Data, ArcGIS online Living Atlas, Science Basin
● Interactive Webmaps
o Story map,
o State pages,
o Individual river map
o Webmaps to explore on your own
Story Map
http://nps.maps.arcgis.com/apps/MapJournal/index.html?appid=ba6debd907c7431ea765071e9502d5ac
Webmaps & Tables
Map would go above the river names
Individual Map Goes here
Feature
Removed
What’s next?
● Story Map link is live● Data is available via ArcGIS
online● Integrate all webmaps and
data into rivers.gov –September 30, 2016
● Wild and Scenic Database will be linked to through the National River Recreation Database
national river
recreation database
nationalriversproject.com
MAY 17, 2016
RISA SHIMODA, MARINA METES
RIVER MANAGEMENT SOCIETY
How many good canoeing streams are near where
I’ll be moving next year?
Are they included in the‘water trails’ I hear about?
How many designated ‘Wild’ river miles are in the Northeast?
Does one already exist?
Great components do!
American Whitewater: Class 2+
American Canoe Association: water
trails, limited functions
Rivers.gov: designation, management
and historical context
Watersheds, river trails, and state
Vision
Resource that provides comprehensive river
recreation and management information
useful to resource managers and interested
publics.
Collecting Recreation Data on
NPS Wild and Scenic Rivers
Searchable Attributes
River Access SitesSite Name Section Name Trip Length
Rive Name River Name Management
Access Site Management Upstream & Downstream Points Wild and Scenic
Parking State 1/2 Whitewater
Access Type Description Water Trail
River Mile Section ID Link to AW
Put-in / Take-out Regulations Link to website
Fee Fishing
Restrooms Camping
Restrictions Difficulty
Emergency Access Outliers in Difficulty
Observation Area Permit Information
Link to website Miles
River Trips
Referenced to the
USGS National Hydrography Dataset
(NHD)
Linear Referencing to NHD
USGS Hydrography Event Management (HEM) tool
to create line and point events with upstream and
downstream access points and campgrounds
Test Progressively Less
Familiar Data
Data standard developed
‘Internal’ data - National Park Service Wild
and Scenic Rivers, Oregon BLM rivers
Partners
State of Tennessee
Minnesota DNR
Bridger-Teton National Forest
Data Donor Project Goals and Objectives
Need for a straightforward method to
donate and integrate data
linear referenced to the NHD
transformed into the NRRD schema
Partnered with University of
Washington (Katie Messick and John
Ritzman)
Project deliverables: ArcGIS tool kit
(20 tools) & “Cookbook” instruction
manual (40 pages)
Matching attributes to
NRRD standard
Data Partner
Unique ID State Ownership Name Put-in TakeoutReach
LeaderHazards
ABC-001 NJ City Joe's Park Y N
ABC-002 NJ CountyMaurice
MarinaY Y
NRRD Standard
Unique ID StateManaging
AgencyName
Upstream
Access
Downstream
Access
Wild &
Scenic
ABC-001 NJ City Joe's Park Y N <null>
ABC-002 NJ CountyMaurice
MarinaY Y <null>
- Import data
- Match to standard
HEM: Create Line Events QA/QC
Join NHD attributes from river segments
to access points
Final line and point database
NRRD Data Donation Model
Data
Partner
NRRD
Results
partners.
RMS Website: www.river-management.org
Risa Shimoda: [email protected]
Marina Metes: [email protected]
2009 – 300+ Miles of Wild and Scenic River Miles Designated over 15 different Rivers
Very Popular River Recreation Destination – Primarily Snake River, but others too
Lack of Publicly Available Information
Lack of Information Regarding Emergency Access
Looking for Opportunities to Share Information, NRRD...
UTC’s ROLE IN HOSTING AND MAINTAINING
THE NRRD
Putting Innovative Technologies to Work for our Communities, Rivers, & Resources
Andrew Mindermann – University of Tennessee at Chattanooga
Overview
Tennessee is home to world-class paddling from whitewater to flatwater.
There was a growing demand for a statewide online water trail resource guide
Project was started not knowing who would design or develop it. Started with
State Organization but project was too big and not enough access to data.
UTC IGTLab Background
UTC IGTLab provides a full software ecosystem
>10 TB of regional spatial data
Server and application development space
Focus in Research and Development
Integration of Scenarios
Planning Tools
Support “One Stop” Information Center
Tennessee Valley Water Trails
UTC was selected due to their access to data and ability to work with state
and federal agencies along with watershed organizations and local non-
profits.
In 2015, the Tennessee Valley Water Trails project began.
Working with Tennessee Valley Authority (TVA), National Park Service, and TN
State Parks.
Collected geospatial data, narrative text, images, and videos from
organizations across the state.
NRRD
Worked with River Management Society throughout the development of the
project.
Began talking about NRRD and integration of TN Water Trail data.
As the NRRD began to grow, the database needed a home.
With the resources and infrastructure available from the UTC IGTLab, it was
decided that we would house the NRRD.
Data Donors and QA/QC
Phase 1:
Organizations with data
that would like to donate
to the NRRD will send
their data to a RMS GIS
Specialist for QA/QC.
The RMS GIS Specialist
performs QA/QC to match
the NRRD schema.
Connected to the UTC
Server, the RMS GIS
Specialist loads the data
into the master database
and publishes to the web.
Data
Donor
GIS
Specialist
NRRD
Website/ArcGIS
Online
NRRD
Toolkit
GIS
Server
Data Server
Data Donors and QA/QC
Phase 2:
Increase organizational use of
NRRD Toolkit/HEM Tool prior
to donation.
Directly load to UTC Server.
Script sorts data into working
or non-working for NRRD
format.
Working data gets checked for
accuracy, Non-working data
gets reformatted for NRRD.
Data
Donor
GIS
Specialist
NRRD
Website/ArcGIS
Online
NRRD
Toolkit
GIS
Server
Data Server
Sorting
Script
YN
NRRD Hosting Goals
Simplify the data donation process
Routine updates and back up on our end
Project sustainability with in house GIS Analyst/Specialist
Routine performance testing