Oklahoma Natural Heritage Inventory
Rare Species Web Mapping
 

ONHI is joining with Geo Information Systems (GeoSystems) on campus to offer a subscription service for rare species data via the Internet beginning June 1 2000. ONHI is providing the data and GeoSystems is hosting the mapping service.

Visit the ONHI Rare and Endangered Species Database on the GeoSystems Web site: WWW.GEO.OU.EDU

GeoSystems has experience in hosting and managing natural resource data mapping over the World Wide Web. Our partnership is intended to make biological diversity data more available and easier for more people to use.

ONHI was created in 1987 to inventory the state's biological diversity and to disseminate information on it to the public. To fulfill its charge ONHI maintains databases of the distribution and status of rare species and ecological communities in Oklahoma.
 
Rare Species in Cleveland Co., OK
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GeoSystems was originally established at the University of Oklahoma in 1962 as the Oil Information Center, and has been under the direction of the SarkeysEnergy Center director since 1988.  From its beginning as a repository of usable and practical oil-oriented information, departmental expertise evolved into areas of computer processing, database development, and applications development that includes a current emphasis on natural resource mapping and Geographical Information Systems.

Federal and State Species Data

This initial service comprises only Oklahoma species having some federal or state endangerment or regulatory status. ONHI reports locations on 24 federally listed, proposed for listing or candidate species. An additional 53 species are included that are state listed, closed season or state special species of concern. ONHI worked closely with staff of both the Oklahoma Department of Wildlife Conservation for state endangered species and the Tulsa office of the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service for federal endangered species in preparing this information. These data will be updated as ONHI receives new information.
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With this service, subscribers will be able to access more than 1,600 database records from their own computers. All transactions with the service are done by Web browser; no special software is required. At their convenience, subscribers will be able to query the database by species, county, township or date and to display the results in a custom map of their choosing. They will also be able to download query results, with map coordinates, as plain text, Arcview© shape files or Microsoft Access© tables.

The endangered species map service will not display precise map coordinates for sensitive species sites. Instead, generalized locations will be substituted for these sites and their map coordinates will not be available on-line. The mapping program will arbitrarily offset or randomize the map coordinates for such a site within a polygon approximating 1 to 2 square miles of the original coordinates. The user will see only a polygon in the vicinity of the precise location. ONHI will provide precise map coordinate information for sensitive sites to users on written request.

Subscription Information

DATA SUBSCRIPTION RATES

 Browse Use
 Monthly
 6 Months
 12 Months

 Download Fee
 
Fee
$25
$135
$255

$2 per record
 
 

Try before you buy

If the service is not what you want, you may cancel at no charge any time within the first 24 hours of use. You will be able to cancel online.

Complementary accounts will be available for qualified public agencies, organizations, data partners and researchers. As it has always done, ONHI will continue to welcome requests for information addressed directly to the program and this service will remain free of charge.

For more information on this service, ONHI or GeoSystems, please contact Ian Butler, biological data coordinator, email: ian_b"@"ou.edu, (405) 325-1985, or Mary Banken, director, Geo Information Systems, mkbanken@ou.edu, (405) 325-3131.