2374BF82-CB61-42D4-93D8-853D7058DC73 eng utf8 dataset dataset Teresa Tran U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, Region 6 IT Specialist - GIS 214-665-6787 1201 Elm Street Ste 500 Dallas TX 75270 tran.teresa@epa.gov https://www.epa.gov/aboutepa/epa-region-6-south-central website information pointOfContact 2025-08-22 ISO 19139 Geographic Information - Metadata - Implementation Specification 2007 4269 EPA Region 6 REAP Rarity Geodatabase 2011-05-01 publication Teresa Tran U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, Region 6 IT Specialist - GIS 214-665-6787 1201 Elm Street Ste 500 Dallas TX 75270 tran.teresa@epa.gov https://www.epa.gov/aboutepa/epa-region-6-south-central website information pointOfContact The Regional Ecological Assessment Protocol (REAP) is a screening level assessment tool created as a way to identify priority ecological resources within the five EPA Region 6 states (Arkansas, Louisiana, New Mexico, Oklahoma, and Texas). The REAP divides eighteen individual measures into three main sub-layers: diversity, rarity, and sustainability. This geodatabase contains 2 rarity layers (rarity and rarityrank) which shows the rarity of species and land cover in the Region. There are four measures that make up the rarity layer: vegetation rarity, natural heritage rank, taxonomic richness, and rare species richness. Each cell in the final rarity grid has a score of between 1 and 100 based on the average of the four measures. Cells with higher scores represent areas that have the most rarity. Cells with lower scores represent areas that have the least rarity. In the rarityrank grid, the cells are placed into the following 5 groups based on the score: 1 (top 1% of scores), 10 (top 10% of scores), 25 (top 25% of scores), 50 (top 50% of scores), and 100 (all the rest of the scores). See each individual layer for more detailed metadata. completed Teresa Tran U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, Region 6 IT Specialist - GIS 214-665-6787 1201 Elm Street Ste 500 Dallas TX 75270 tran.teresa@epa.gov https://www.epa.gov/aboutepa/epa-region-6-south-central website information publisher notPlanned Arkansas Louisiana New Mexico Oklahoma Texas place EPA Place Names 2015-01-31 publication Biology Conservation Ecology Ecosystem Environment Impact Indicator Land Management Modeling Natural Resources theme EPA GIS Keyword Thesaurus 2007-11-02 publication 020:070 theme Federal Program Inventory 2013-09-16 publication None. Please check sources, scale, accuracy, currentness and other available information. Please confirm that you are using the most recent copy of both data and metadata. Acknowledgement of the EPA would be appreciated. EPA Public Domain License licenseUnrestricted https://edg.epa.gov/EPA_Data_License.html unclassified FIPS Pub 199 Standard Technical Controls eng utf8 true -109 -87 25 37 2005-03-01T00:00:00 2011-06-28T00:00:00 Robert Kirkland US EPA, Region 6 EDG Steward (214) 665-6798 (214) 665-6689 1445 Ross Ave, Suite 1200 Dallas Texas 75089 US kirkland.robert@epa.gov https://edg.epa.gov/data/PUBLIC/R6/REAP/r6reap_rarity.zip file offlineAccess 630 am to 300 pm, M-F Send email or leave message if not available. resourceProvider https://edg.epa.gov/data/PUBLIC/R6/REAP/r6reap_rarity.zip download unknown 2015-06-28