cons_agmt: Summary data on ESA section 10 agreements

In Defenders-ESC/esas10agmts: An R Data Package for Endangered Species Act Section 10 Agreements

Description

Section 10(a)(1)(B) of the US Endangered Species Act sets the mechanism by which non-federal entities - private landowners, state governments, and others - receive authorization to 'take' listed species, or coverage for certain types of activities involving candidate species, in return for taking conservation actions for those species. The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service (FWS) keeps basic records about these agreements on their ECOS website, http://ecos.fws.gov. This data.frame was created by scraping the ECOS pages for all listed, candidate, and proposed species and extracting the summary tables for all section 10 agreements. The types of agreements in the data include: Habitat Conservation Plans (HCPs); Safe Harbor Agreements (SHAs); Candidate Conservation Agreements (CCAs); and Candidate Conservation Agreements with Assurances (CCAAs).

Usage

cons_agmt

Format

A data frame with 1434 rows and 25 variables

Link

Link to the local copy of the agreement page

Outlink

Link(s) to any documents outside of the agreement page

Plan_Name

Name of the agreement, as given on ECOS

Agreement_Type

Type of agreement; one of HCP, SHA, CCA, CCAA

USFWS_Regions

FWS regions in which the agreement occurs

USFWS_Field_Offices

FWS offices managing the agreement

Status

In-progress or Expired

Involved_Agency

Agency(ies) involved in the agreement

Date_Agmt_Permit

Start date of the agreement/permit

Date_Agmt_Permit_Expired

End date of the agreement/permit

Location

Location of the agreement, as given in ECOS

Habitat

Habitat encompassed by the agreement, as given in ECOS

States

State in which the agreement occurs

Area_Covered

Area (acres, usually) covered by the agreement

Area_Enrolled

Area (acres, usually) enrolled in the agreement

Land_Use

Land use(s) covered by the agreement, as given in ECOS

Duration

Agreement duration, years and months

Plan_Agreement_Documents

Any attached agreement documents

FR_Documents

Any attached Federal Register documents

Region_ls

List data structure for FWS region

States_ls

List data structure for state(s) of the agreement

Location_ls

List data structure for location of the agreement

Acres_Covered_num

Numeric data type for agreement acreage

Duration_Years

Numeric data type for agreement duration, years

Duration_Months

Numeric data for agreement duration, months

Source

http://ecos.fws.gov

Defenders-ESC/esas10agmts documentation built on May 6, 2019, 1:58 p.m.