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: executivedirector@river-management.org

Marina Metes: marmet1@umbc.edu

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