Assessment of potential wildlife corridors in Crooked, Burt, and Pickerel Lake watersheds.

LimnologyHabitat fragmentation and the destruction is one of the greatest threats to native fauna in the United States. One means of reducing the impacts of habitat fragmentation on native species is through the creation of wildlife corridors. Utilizing datasets provided by the Tip of the Mitt Watershed Council, the National Land Cover Dataset, and the Michigan Geographic Data Library, mpas were created in ArcGIS in order to identify ideal wildlife corridors for umbrella species in three northern Michigan watersheds. Ideal corridors for individual species were identified, and then compiled in order to priortize the overall value of parcels as wildlife corridors. Parcels for each watershed were priortized according to the number of species for which they created viable habitat.http://deepblue.lib.umich.edu/bitstream/2027.42/110228/1/Weighman_Kristi_2014.pd