The goal for this set of maps was to find a corridor for large animals to travel through the state of Washington. The first map shows the factors that went into creating a wildness index which then informed the wildlife corridor shown in the following map.
In order to achieve the wildness index that is shown, an analysis had to be done that combined population density, land cover, distance to roads, and ruggedness. These are all factors that go into finding the best wildlife corridor. An area that is more wild is one that further away from civilization and more remote.
The second map shows the product of the analysis taking the wildness index into account to create the optimal wildlife corridors. I used the optimal regions connect tool along with a conditional geoprocessing tool in order to overlap all of the wildness index data into one format that could be presented as a wildlife corridor. The finished corridor is one that generally stays in the mountains and in areas that are easier for animals to travel along.