As we increase our efforts to identify potential wetland restoration sites across the watershed, we plan to develop resources to better assist our partners in finding those sites. Below are some GIS datalayers for use by our partners in reviewing potential work areas.

The following are raster files for each New York USC County. These files are general locations of suitable soils and slopes using coarse data available on a region-wide scale.

Other wetland datalayers available online

NWI Wetland Data can be downloaded here: https://www.fws.gov/wetlands/data/data-download.html
NWI Wetland Data available in Google Earth
Soils data available: https://websoilsurvey.sc.egov.usda.gov/App/HomePage.htm
DEC Regulated Wetland Data can be downloaded here: https://cugir.library.cornell.edu/catalog/cugir-008187?id=111

Online Mappers – useful in evaluating potential wetland restoration sites

USDA Web Soil Survey – IMS of digital soil survey data with aerial photos or USGS Topo maps as the background image.
USDA Plants Database – excellent resource for identifying wetland plants and plant indicator status.
Google Maps – google maps regularly updates their aerial photos, often having recent photos for areas across the watershed.
Google Earth – google maps in addition to having updated aerial photos, has the option of toggling through historic aerial photos, as useful tool in site review.

New York Specific Links 

NYS OPRHP SHPO IMS – a lot of acronyms for an online mapper that shows the NYS Archaeologically Sensitive Areas.
NYS DEC Environmental Resource Mapper – IMS of the State Regulated wetlands and adjacent “Wetland Checkzone.”
New York iMapInvasives – New York State’s on-line, all-taxa invasive species database and mapping tool for documenting and sharing invasive species observations.
New York Flora Atlas – a source of information for the distribution of plants within the state of New York.