Mojave Desert Springs and Seeps on public lands

Springs and seeps are extremely important to all life in the Mojave desert. Until recently, there has been a lack of accurate, geospatial information about springs and seeps in the Mojave desert. With funding from The Nature Conservancy and Bureau of Land Management, Transition Habitat Conservancy and hydrologist Andy Zdon were able to visit springs across public lands in the Mojave desert in California. A variety of data was collected at each spring and was documented in the report "Mojave Desert Springs and Waterholes: Results of the 2015-16 Mojave Desert Spring Survey" prepared by Andy Zdon & Associates, Inc. Transition Habitat Conservancy took the information from the report and put it into geospatial form for users to be able to explore the data in a map-based platform. The Nature Conservancy has included that geospatial information in this dataset so that it can be viewed with other important geospatial conservation information. The springs in this dataset are symbolized by The Nature Conservancy's Mojave Desert Ecoregional Assessment - dark green (ecologically core), light green (ecologically intact), yellow (moderately degraded) and red (highly converted). Additionally, users can click on the identify "i" icon to see all the associated data with each spring, including a hyperlink to a photograph of the spring. We encourage users to bring in additional land use and conservation datasets for the desert, such as the Desert Renewable Energy Conservation Plan or linkage studies. This dataset is intended to support efforts to conserve the remaining water sources for wildlife in the Mojave desert.