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From page 123... ... D-1 A P P E N D I X D User Guide for Rapid Assessment of Roadside Habitat for Monarchs and Habitat Calculator: Monarch Habitat Evaluator Tool User Guide for the Roadside Monarch Habitat Evaluator Monarch Joint Venture Overview The Roadside Monarch Habitat Evaluator integrates the Rapid Assessment of Roadside Monarch Habitat and the Monarch Habitat Quality Calculator in Esri Survey123. Roadside managers collect data from roadside rights-of-way through field visits, using the Rapid Assessment protocol (Appendix C) Read the entire page →
From page 124... ... D-2 Evaluating the Suitability of Roadway Corridors for Use by Monarch Butterflies What You'll Need An organizational ArcGIS Online (AGOL) account. Read the entire page →
From page 125... ... User Guide for Rapid Assessment of Roadside Habitat for Monarchs and Habitat Calculator: Monarch Habitat Evaluator Tool D-3 I Setting up the Roadside Monarch Habitat Evaluator 1) Read the entire page →
From page 126... ... D-4 Evaluating the Suitability of Roadway Corridors for Use by Monarch Butterflies f. Name the survey - replace "Form 1" under "Title" with the name you want to appear on your assessment survey form (e.g. Read the entire page →
From page 127... ... User Guide for Rapid Assessment of Roadside Habitat for Monarchs and Habitat Calculator: Monarch Habitat Evaluator Tool D-5 Each row in the table is a field in the survey as well as in the database it creates when published. The columns contain various settings and coding for each field. Read the entire page →
From page 128... ... D-6 Evaluating the Suitability of Roadway Corridors for Use by Monarch Butterflies of plants of each milkweed species they observe instead of counting each plant, change the default to "1". Read the entire page →
From page 129... ... User Guide for Rapid Assessment of Roadside Habitat for Monarchs and Habitat Calculator: Monarch Habitat Evaluator Tool D-7 4) Customize plant lists There are three sets of plant lists, two of which you will want to configure to be specific to your state: milkweeds and noxious (managed) Read the entire page →
From page 130... ... D-8 Evaluating the Suitability of Roadway Corridors for Use by Monarch Butterflies b. Noxious Weeds Similarly, noxious weeds should be constrained to only those noxious weed species managed by your agency or state. Read the entire page →
From page 131... ... User Guide for Rapid Assessment of Roadside Habitat for Monarchs and Habitat Calculator: Monarch Habitat Evaluator Tool D-9 You may choose to substitute this list with your own state plant list replacing the name and label column or to add additional species that you discover are missing (Note: adding choices after an initial publishing will require the form to be republished and then redownloaded by field techs for those additions to appear) Read the entire page →
From page 132... ... D-10 Evaluating the Suitability of Roadway Corridors for Use by Monarch Butterflies 5) Save form and view – Once all these updates have been made, save the excel table and close it. Read the entire page →
From page 133... ... User Guide for Rapid Assessment of Roadside Habitat for Monarchs and Habitat Calculator: Monarch Habitat Evaluator Tool D-11 b. Change Survey Look (optional) Read the entire page →
From page 134... ... D-12 Evaluating the Suitability of Roadway Corridors for Use by Monarch Butterflies a. Sign into to your agency AGOL account by clicking the person icon (bottom left corner) Read the entire page →
From page 135... ... User Guide for Rapid Assessment of Roadside Habitat for Monarchs and Habitat Calculator: Monarch Habitat Evaluator Tool D-13 8) Set permissions. Read the entire page →
From page 136... ... D-14 Evaluating the Suitability of Roadway Corridors for Use by Monarch Butterflies 9) Finally, click on the Submitter tab and scroll to the bottom. Read the entire page →
From page 137... ... User Guide for Rapid Assessment of Roadside Habitat for Monarchs and Habitat Calculator: Monarch Habitat Evaluator Tool D-15 II. Using the Survey123 field application Field staff will use a related software product called the Survey123 field app (a.k.a. Read the entire page →
From page 138... ... D-16 Evaluating the Suitability of Roadway Corridors for Use by Monarch Butterflies 2) Collect Data The survey form is now ready to go. Read the entire page →
From page 139... ... User Guide for Rapid Assessment of Roadside Habitat for Monarchs and Habitat Calculator: Monarch Habitat Evaluator Tool D-17 1) Assessment Type: How will this ROW be assessed? Read the entire page →
From page 140... ... D-18 Evaluating the Suitability of Roadway Corridors for Use by Monarch Butterflies 4) Date: By clicking this field, the date will autofill. Read the entire page →
From page 141... ... User Guide for Rapid Assessment of Roadside Habitat for Monarchs and Habitat Calculator: Monarch Habitat Evaluator Tool D-19 10) Survey Length (Set as a default) Read the entire page →
From page 142... ... D-20 Evaluating the Suitability of Roadway Corridors for Use by Monarch Butterflies question will not be factored into the management component score since it is optional. Click the arrow at the bottom of form to proceed to the next page. Read the entire page →
From page 143... ... User Guide for Rapid Assessment of Roadside Habitat for Monarchs and Habitat Calculator: Monarch Habitat Evaluator Tool D-21 17) NECTAR PLANTS (foraging) Read the entire page →
From page 144... ... D-22 Evaluating the Suitability of Roadway Corridors for Use by Monarch Butterflies d. To add new species, click the round cross button. Read the entire page →
From page 145... ... User Guide for Rapid Assessment of Roadside Habitat for Monarchs and Habitat Calculator: Monarch Habitat Evaluator Tool D-23 e. If you are counting eggs and caterpillars, the following fields will appear. Read the entire page →
From page 146... ... D-24 Evaluating the Suitability of Roadway Corridors for Use by Monarch Butterflies NOTE: If collecting data in the unmowed and mowed sections of the roadside separately, the form will look like below. The same fields are replicated in the mowed area section for later comparison. Read the entire page →
From page 147... ... User Guide for Rapid Assessment of Roadside Habitat for Monarchs and Habitat Calculator: Monarch Habitat Evaluator Tool D-25 20) Number of monarch butterflies observed (optional) Read the entire page →
From page 148... ... D-26 Evaluating the Suitability of Roadway Corridors for Use by Monarch Butterflies Send Later will store the survey in an Outbox for later submission. After clicking on the Outbox, hit Send to submit all the surveys stored there. Read the entire page →
From page 149... ... User Guide for Rapid Assessment of Roadside Habitat for Monarchs and Habitat Calculator: Monarch Habitat Evaluator Tool D-27 III. Exploring the Results You can view, download, analyze, and visualize the survey data from the Survey123 website (a portal into your ArcGIS Online data repository) Read the entire page →
From page 150... ... D-28 Evaluating the Suitability of Roadway Corridors for Use by Monarch Butterflies 3) Click on the Data tab to view all records along with their locations. Read the entire page →
From page 151... ... User Guide for Rapid Assessment of Roadside Habitat for Monarchs and Habitat Calculator: Monarch Habitat Evaluator Tool D-29 Best Practice: It's a good idea to perform quality control on records here from time to time. If errors are discovered, field techs can resubmit corrected surveys to override results. Read the entire page →
From page 152... ... D-30 Evaluating the Suitability of Roadway Corridors for Use by Monarch Butterflies i. Remove Tables: You will notice the table of contents on the left has one spatial layer (MonarchRoadsideHabitatAssessment) Read the entire page →
From page 153... ... User Guide for Rapid Assessment of Roadside Habitat for Monarchs and Habitat Calculator: Monarch Habitat Evaluator Tool D-31 That's better! Read the entire page →
From page 154... ... D-32 Evaluating the Suitability of Roadway Corridors for Use by Monarch Butterflies 3. Select a drawing style: The style you pick will depend on the data you want to show. Read the entire page →
From page 155... ... User Guide for Rapid Assessment of Roadside Habitat for Monarchs and Habitat Calculator: Monarch Habitat Evaluator Tool D-33 7. Click the Legend tab in the Table of Contents. Read the entire page →
From page 156... ... D-34 Evaluating the Suitability of Roadway Corridors for Use by Monarch Butterflies When you are finished configuring, hit OK in the configure box and OK again in the side panel. Click on a point to view the results. Read the entire page →
From page 157... ... User Guide for Rapid Assessment of Roadside Habitat for Monarchs and Habitat Calculator: Monarch Habitat Evaluator Tool D-35 vii. Share Map: We can share this map with others in our organization. Read the entire page →

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... D-1 A P P E N D I X D User Guide for Rapid Assessment of Roadside Habitat for Monarchs and Habitat Calculator: Monarch Habitat Evaluator Tool User Guide for the Roadside Monarch Habitat Evaluator Monarch Joint Venture Overview The Roadside Monarch Habitat Evaluator integrates the Rapid Assessment of Roadside Monarch Habitat and the Monarch Habitat Quality Calculator in Esri Survey123. Roadside managers collect data from roadside rights-of-way through field visits, using the Rapid Assessment protocol (Appendix C)