Description: <DIV STYLE="text-align:Left;"><DIV><DIV><P><SPAN>The purpose was to map high probability areas where a medical helicopter might be needed. Each pre-determined location includes site specific information such as surface material, hazards, slope, GPS coordinates, and size. This is the information that needs to be relayed to the pilot before landing a helicopter. Maps with this info were made to go in ranger "Fire Map Books" so when there is an incident when a helicopter is needed the rangers already have the information handy. These maps were also given to a few of the medical helicopter companies in the area for their records.</SPAN></P></DIV></DIV></DIV>
Description: <DIV STYLE="text-align:Left;"><DIV><DIV><P><SPAN>Trail Study Areas were created by the Visitor Master Plan to establish an overall framework for providing visitor services and protcting resources on OSMP managed land. The four Trail Study Areas correspond to the four cardinal directions; west, east, south, north. They are intended to be area-specific plans to impove the visitor experience and provide a sustainable trail system while protecting natural and cultural resources.</SPAN></P><P><SPAN>TSA plans have been completed covering the entirety of the west and north and portions of the south. The remaineder of the south TSA and the east remain.</SPAN></P><P><SPAN>The features in this feature class were digitized by hand in such a way that no existing OSMP property is bisected by a TSA boundary. Care was taken to have boundaries align with existing features, principally roads. This was done to minimize the likelihood of future adjustments to the TSA boundaries.</SPAN></P></DIV></DIV></DIV>
Description: <DIV STYLE="text-align:Left;"><DIV><DIV><P><SPAN>TSA boundaries: North, South, East and West. Trail Study Areas. Geographical regions dividing the OSMP land system into 4 areas to focus planning efforts. Division of the West TSA into smaller areas of concern.The West TSA is divided into 4 subareas: Chautauqua/Flatirons, Flagstaff/Western Mountain Parks HCA, Sanitas/Anemone/Red Rocks, and Shanahan/South Mesa.</SPAN></P><P><SPAN>The West TSA contains Passive Recreation Areas (1,500 acres), Natural Areas (5,240 acres), and Habitat Conservation Areas (3,960 acres). There are no lands in the West TSA designated as Agricultural Areas. Two properties in the West TSA are owned by the federal government and for which the city has limited management responsibilities. These are the National Center for Atmospheric Research (NCAR) and National Institute for Standards and Technology (NIST). Management area designations provide the foundation for determining what recreational opportunities are allowed and where, the level of resource protection, and the level of trail and facility development.</SPAN></P></DIV></DIV></DIV>
Copyright Text: City of Boulder Open Space and Mountain Parks
Description: TSA boundaries: North, South, East and West. Trail Study Areas. Geographical regions dividing the OSMP land system into 4 areas to focus planning efforts. The North TSA is divided into 4 subareas: Northern Properties, North Foothills, Boulder Valley Ranch, and Wonderland Lake. The North TSA receives approximately one-fifth of the visitation to OSMP. TSA plans provide a means for area-specific implementation of the strategies and policies contained in the Visitor Master Plan. TSA plans also integrate the goals and objectives relevant to visitor access and infrastructure management from OSMP resource plans. These include the Grassland Ecosystem Management Plan, Forest Ecosystem Management Plan and the forthcoming Agricultural Resource Management Plan.
Copyright Text: City of Boulder Open Space and Mountain Parks
Description: <DIV STYLE="text-align:Left;"><DIV><DIV><P><SPAN>As part of the 2005 Visitor Master Plan, Habitat Conservation Areas were divided into subareas for the purpose of managing visitor access.</SPAN></P></DIV></DIV></DIV>
Description: <DIV STYLE="text-align:Left;"><DIV><DIV><P><SPAN>Wetland and Riparian vegetation from the VegMap, merged together into functional complexes which may include non-wetland or riparian areas inbetween wetland or riparian vegetation. Marianne Giolitto and Megan Bowes edited a shapefile created from VegMap data in order to develop these complexes for the Grassland Ecosystem Management Plan (GMAP). This file was used for evaluation of Leopard Frog habitat, among other analyses including the 200m buffer analysis presented in draft 1 of the plan.</SPAN></P></DIV></DIV></DIV>
Description: <DIV STYLE="text-align:Left;"><DIV><DIV><P><SPAN>This dataset represents the reconstructed Best Opportunity Analysis of the Grassland Management Plan. Best available</SPAN></P></DIV></DIV></DIV>
Description: <DIV STYLE="text-align:Left;"><DIV><DIV><P><SPAN>Delineates border between grassland and forest vegetation types based on 2008 vegetation mapping efforts.</SPAN></P></DIV></DIV></DIV>
Copyright Text: Charlie Philbrick, GIS Specialist, [email protected]
Description: <DIV STYLE="text-align:Left;"><DIV><DIV><P><SPAN>Grassland Preserves were designated as distinct management areas which are focused on the conservation of prairie dogs and their associated species in large and ecologically diverse grassland habitat blocks.</SPAN></P></DIV></DIV></DIV>
Description: <DIV STYLE="text-align:Left;"><P><SPAN>A set of implementation areas was developed as a way to make it easier to describe and understand where, when and what will happen with natural resource management. Originally part of the OSMP Grassland Management Plan, the areas now cover the entire OSMP fee properties and CEs where OSMP has management responsibilites. These areas will provide OSMP staff with a useful tool to incorporate implementation into OSMP’s annual work plan development process. </SPAN></P><P><SPAN>These implementation areas serve as geographically cohesive management units. A set of area specific conservation and restoration objectives can be packaged and applied on the ground over the course of one, or more likely, several years. These detailed management prescriptions will be developed for each implementation area integrating the relevant strategic actions from the GMAP and FEMP. Although each implementation area is not homogenous, they are defined based on overall similarity of vegetation, ecological processes, agricultural characteristics, and landscape context.</SPAN></P></DIV>
Description: <DIV STYLE="text-align:Left;"><DIV><DIV><P><SPAN>Authoratative data source for OSMP area planning efforts including Integrated Site Plans. In addition to the ISPs, this feature class contains historical data as described below.</SPAN></P><P><SPAN>This feature class contains features from two different sources, demarcated in the field AreaType. ‘Open Space Area Management Plan’ signifies areas planned for in Area Management Plans (AMPs) by the City of Boulder Open Space Department prior to its 2001 merger with the Mountain Parks division of the Parks and Recreation Department. ‘OSMP Management Area Plan / Trail Study Area Plan’ signifies Management Areas (MAs) planned for as Trail Study Area (TSA) studies. MAs were a collection of area-specific boundaries established in the Open Space North Boulder Valley Area Management Plan and retained through the 2001 Open Space / Mountain Parks merger. MAs were later succeeded by four larger TSA boundaries—North, West, South, and East—with the adoption of the 2005 Visitor Master Plan (VMP).</SPAN></P><P><SPAN>Two of the nine MAs, Eldorado Mountain / Doudy Draw and Marshall Mesa / Southern Grasslands, had plans completed for them prior to plans created for the four TSA boundaries established in the VMP. The polygons contained in this feature class were copied from an old feature class of unknown providence that was found in a personal geodatabase in an old archive folder in \\osmpmap\data\. The feature class appears to be reliable and seems to borrow much of its geometry from the OSMP Properties (now a parcel fabric) feature class, but it has not been verified. This is the only seemingly-unmodified geometry (i.e., it has not been buffered, etc.) of the management areas known to exist after searching by RIS and P&DS staff. Furthermore, the archived data contained ten polygons to represent these nine MAs because one of these MAs, Mountain Parks North TSA, contains two non-contiguous areas; the two polygons for these respective areas were merged into a single multi-part feature.</SPAN></P><P><SPAN>AMP polygons were created by the Temporary Planning Technician pursuant to a request by the Planning Supervisor. The two polygons—North Boulder Valley and South Boulder Creek—were created by different means.</SPAN></P><UL><LI><P><SPAN>The North Boulder Valley AMP defined the planning area as a collection of Open Space properties. Many of these features are not contiguous. The list of properties outlined in the report were selected and copied from the OSMP Properties parcel fabric and dissolved into a single, multi-polygon feature.</SPAN></P><P><SPAN /></P></LI><LI><P><SPAN>The South Boulder Creek AMP was not defined as a collection of Open Space lands and was instead an area encompassing Open Space land and land in-between. As no legal definition of the boundaries could be found, the polygon was digitized from the best available map within the plan. The polygon traces the roads that the plan follows, although there are segments of the boundary that do not appear to conform to any roads, property lines, or county parcel lines; in some segments, the boundary appears to skip from one road to another, and some segments do not follow any obvious cartographic feature. As-such, the South Boulder Creek boundary is sometimes a best-approximation of the feature. While there may not necessarily be any more accurate representation that can be drawn, this boundary is nonetheless more suitable for cartographic purposes and less suitable for analysis.</SPAN></P></LI></UL></DIV></DIV></DIV>
Copyright Text: Planning Supervisor: Mark Gershman, Planning & Design Services Supervisor
Planning Data Steward: Charlie Philbrick, GIS Analyst I
GIS Supervisor: John Morley
Planning Technician: Harris Kalat