This layer represents PFLCC's Priority Resource: High Pine and Scrub.
Land covers included in the High Pine and Scrub Priority Resource are Coastal Scrub, Oak Scrub, Rosemary Scrub, Sand Pine Scrub, Sandhill, Scrub, Upland Coniferous, Upland Mixed Woodland, and Upland Pine.
The land covers are then further refined using priorities 1 and 2 from CLIP 4.0 Aggregated Priorities model. The Aggregated Priorities model, which combines conservation priorities from the Biodiversity, Landscapes, and Surface Waters Resource Priority models, and the underlying CLIP Core Data layers. Priorities range from 1 (highest priority) to 5 (lowest). Florida Natural Areas Inventory and the University of Florida Center for Landscape Conservation Planning. (See technical report at www.fnai.org/clip.dfm.).
The Peninsular Florida Landscape Conservation Cooperative (PFLCC) is part of a national network of Landscape Conservation Cooperatives(LCCs). LCCs are applied conservation science partnerships among federal agencies, regional organizations, states, tribes, NGOs, private stakeholders, universities...