Statewide Essential Habitat Connectivity Project Geospatial Datasets (Read_me Text file)  March 2010

File name	Brief Description			File Type

NLB_gen	General Natural Landscape Blocks							Polygon Feature Class

NLB_dissect	Natural Landscape Blocks dissected by major and secondary roads 
	(used as termini in least-cost corridor modeling and to generate comparison statistics)	Polygon Feature Class

Sticks	Diagrammatic linear linkage between centroids of Natural Landscape Blocks 
	(use descriptattribute to distinguish between types)					Line Feature Class

ECA	Unsplit version of the Essential Connectivity Areas (n=168)					Polygon Feature Class

ECA_split	Split version of the Essential Connectivity Areas (n=192)					Polygon Feature Class

Least_Cost_Corridors	Mosaic of least-cost corridor results for all Essential Connectivity Areas.  
	The minimum cell value was used for overlapping cells.					Raster Dataset

Cost_Surface	Statewide resistance surface generated for least-cost corridor models				Raster Dataset

NatAreas_small	Natural areas smaller than 2,000 acres that otherwise meet NLB criteria			Feature Class


