U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service 20030228 Final Rule map Federal Register (50 CFR Part 17) U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service State of Florida http://www.fws.gov/ This geospatial dataset shows the final riverine critical habitat units for Gulf sturgeon. This includes Units 1 through 7. There is a separate geospatial dataset that shows the final marine critical habitat Units 8 through 14. This dataset is provided for illustrative purposes only. This dataset does NOT represent the legal definition of riverine critical habitat units for Gulf sturgeon. For the precise legal definition, please refer to the narrative unit descriptions as listed in the Federal Register, 50 CFR Part 17, Designation of Critical Habitat for the Gulf Sturgeon; Final Rule, February 28, 2003. Critical habitat identifies specific areas that are essential to the conservation of a listed species, and that may require special management considerations or protection. Section 7(a)(2) of the Act requires that Federal agencies ensure that actions they fund, permit, or carry out are not likely to result in the destruction or adverse modification of critical habitat. The regulatory effect of the critical habitat designation does not extend beyond those activities funded, permitted, or carried out by Federal agencies. State or private actions, with no Federal involvement, are not affected. 20020606 20030228 publication date Complete As needed -90.461090 -82.654161 32.523782 29.142996 ISO 19115 Topic Category biota None Acipenser oxyrinchus desotoi Gulf sturgeon Critical habitat None Florida Southeast United States Alabama Mississippi Louisiana Region 4 None This dataset is provided for illustrative purposes only. This dataset does not represent the legal definition of riverine critical habitat units for Gulf sturgeon. For the precise legal definition, please refer to the narrative unit descriptions as listed in the Federal Register, 50 CFR Part 17, Designation of Critical Habitat for the Gulf Sturgeon; Final Rule, February 28, 2003. U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service Patty Kelly Biologist mailing and physical

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Panama City FL 32405 US 850-769-0552 x228 850-763-2177 patty_kelly@fws.gov Monday-Friday, 8am-4:30pm (C.S.T) Version 6.2 (Build 9200) ; Esri ArcGIS 10.7.1.11595 GeoPlan relied on the integrity of the attribute information within the original data. These data are believed to be logically consistent, though no tests were performed. This dataset was created based on the narrative unit descriptions as listed in the Federal Register, 50 CFR Part 17, Designation of Critical Habitat for the Gulf Sturgeon; Final Rule, February 28, 2003. Omissions of river distributaries may be possible due to the extent of source data (NHD) and because a number of the smaller streams are not named and easily identifiable. Based on the legal narrative unit descriptions in the Federal Register, all distributaries are included; however, they may not be graphically represented in this dataset. Horizontal accuracy was not tested; however, data was created using National Hydrography Dataset which is assumed to have horizontal accuracy. Vertical accuracy was not tested. USGS and U.S. EPA The NHD is based upon the content of USGS Digital Line Graph (DLG) hydrography data integrated with reach-related information from the EPA Reach File Version 3 (RF3). The NHD supersedes DLG and RF3 by incorporating them, not by replacing them. FTP://edc.usgs.gov/pub/data/nhd/fod_cache/medium_resolution/arc/ 100000 onLine 20011129 20020605 publication date NHD Spatial and Attribute Information Data imported to ArcSDE and exported as a shapefile. GeoPlan GeoPlan downloaded this data from http://criticalhabitat.fws.gov/ in January of 2009. The layer was originally in GCS NAD83 projection. This layer updates an existing layer in FGDL called GULF_STURGEON_L. The layer that already existed in FGDL did not match the new layer downloaded. We contacted Wendy_Gierhart@fws.gov and she helped us determine that the layer we had in FGDL needed to be updated. -Upcased all records -Added Descript field based on NAME field -Added FGDLAQDATE -Deleted OBJECTID field -Projected to FGDL Albers -Rename from gulf_sturgeon_lines.shp to GULF_STURGEON_L_CH GeoPlan This data set was created using ArcView 3.2a The process steps for creating the final Gulf sturgeon riverine critical habitat units were: 1. NHD arc and route.reach files were brought into the view for each basin covered by the final critical habitat. 2. Records in the route.reach files were selected by querying on the name field. Additional unnamed records (mainly distributaries) were selected within the view using the selector tool. 3. Records in the arc files were selected using the "Select by theme..." command, choosing all records that were completely within the route.reach files. The selected records were visually checked to ensure that only river centerlines were included. 4. Using the X-Tools extension "merge themes" command, all selected records from the NHD arc files were combined into the stg_ch_final.shp file. 5. Distributaries that were not included in the NHD arc files but were included in the Federal Register maps or DeLorme state gazetteers were added to the shapefile with on-screen digitizing. 6. Using the narrative unit descriptions from the Federal Register, some arcs were spilt and parts were removed. This only occurred in units where the highest river reach included stopped at a road crossing. The roads layer used to determine this stopping point is from the ESRI Sample Data and Maps, CD Volume 5, Southern U.S., August 1999. n/a 20021126 n/a U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service Wendy Gierhart Biologist mailing and physical

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Panama City FL 32405 US 850-769-0552 x244 850-763-2177 wendy_gierhart@fws.gov Monday-Friday, 8am-5pm (C.S.T) Vector String 57 NAD 1983 HARN Florida GDL Albers 24.0 31.5 -84.0 24.0 400000.0 0.0 coordinate pair 0.0001 0.0001 meter D North American 1983 HARN GRS 1980 6378137.0 298.257222101 GULF_STURGEON_L_CH GULF_STURGEON_L_CH.DBF None OBJECTID Internal feature number. ESRI Sequential unique whole numbers that are automatically generated. Name River or Stream Name USGS Character Field: NHD name values were used whenever possible CH_Unit Final Critical Habitat Unit FWS Character Field: Units 1 through 7 are included. Final marine critical habitat units are included in a separate dataset. Length_met Arc Length in Meters X-Tools Numeric Field: Calculated with X-Tools River_mile River Miles X-Tools and Software Numeric Field: Calculated with [Length_met]/1609.344 Huc_code The source theme for the dataset USGS Character Field: The 8-digit HUC code that was used to create the dataset; if the arc was digitized on-screen, it is noted in this field Narrative1 Narrative Unit Description, Part 1 FWS Character Field: This is the narrative unit descriptions copied from the Federal Register, 50 CFR Part 17, Designation of Critical Habitat for the Gulf Sturgeon; Final Rule, February 28, 2003 Narrative2 Narrative Unit Description, Part 2 FWS Character Field: This is the narrative unit descriptions copied from the Federal Register, 50 CFR Part 17, Designation of Critical Habitat for the Gulf Sturgeon; Final Rule, February 28, 2003 Narrative3 Narrative Unit Description, Part 3 FWS Character Field: This is the narrative unit descriptions copied from the Federal Register, 50 CFR Part 17, Designation of Critical Habitat for the Gulf Sturgeon; Final Rule, February 28, 2003 Narrative4 Narrative Unit Description, Part 4 FWS Character Field: This is the narrative unit descriptions copied from the Federal Register, 50 CFR Part 17, Designation of Critical Habitat for the Gulf Sturgeon; Final Rule, February 28, 2003 Narrative5 Narrative Unit Description, Part 5 FWS Character Field: This is the narrative unit descriptions copied from the Federal Register, 50 CFR Part 17, Designation of Critical Habitat for the Gulf Sturgeon; Final Rule, February 28, 2003 Narrative6 Narrative Unit Description, Part 6 FWS Character Field: This is the narrative unit descriptions copied from the Federal Register, 50 CFR Part 17, Designation of Critical Habitat for the Gulf Sturgeon; Final Rule, February 28, 2003 POLYID Undefined by source unknown ENTITY_ID Undefined by source unknown VERSION Undefined by Source unknown DESCRIPT FGDL added field based on NAME GeoPlan FGDLAQDATE Date GeoPlan acquired data from source GeoPlan SHAPE Feature geometry. ESRI Coordinates defining the features. AUTOID Unique ID added by GeoPlan GeoPlan SHAPE.LEN Length in meters GeoPlan Florida Geographic Data Library (FGDL) mailing

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