This polygon layer contains the ecoregional boundaries used in the production of the 2023 Midwest Landscape Initiative draft Blueprint.
<p><span style='font-family:Helvetica, sans-serif; color:rgb(51, 51, 51); letter-spacing:0.25pt; background:white;'><font size='3'>The
Midwest Landscape Initiative (MLI) is a collaboration of fish and wildlife
organizations that identifies shared conservation priorities to develop
solutions for healthy, functioning ecosystems in the Midwest. One of the
landscape conservation design products of the MLI is the Midwest Conservation
Blueprint, a spatial depiction of priority areas for conservation in the
region. It is meant to appeal to a broad audience (anyone doing conservation in
the Midwest) and is developed through spatial prioritization and connectivity
analyses of 20+ social and ecological indicators on the landscape. This polygon
layer contains the spatial boundaries of ecoregions used during the calculation
of regional priority areas. MLI ecoregional boundaries are based on the EPA’s
Level II, III, and IV Ecoregions. Breaking down the Midwest Landscape into
Ecoregions reduces processing time of our spatial planning software and ensures
a fairer comparison of indicators across an ecologically diverse region. By
stratifying the landscape, each map pixel will only be compared and prioritized
in relation to other pixels of the same ecosystem type.</font></span></p>
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