The Edwards to Gulf Conservation Blueprint is a pilot project intended to test the efficacy of this approach to guiding regional conservation efforts. As such, it includes a targeted subset of the habitats that exist within the geography, including floodplain forests, freshwater wetlands, major rivers, rice agriculture, tallgrass prairie, and tidal wetlands. The spatial products include ecological integrity ratings, threat rankings, opportunity rankings, landscape rankings, protection prioritization, maintenance prioritization, and restoration prioritization.Spatial products are based on indicators meant to represent key ecological attributes of each habitat, with an emphasis on the needs of regionally important focal species. Focal species belong to three tiers. Tier 1 includes alligator gar, American oyster, freshwater mussels, Guadalupe bass, mottled duck, and northern bobwhite. Tier 2 includes blue crab, broadcast-spawning prairie minnows, eastern meadowlark, little blue heron, and pennaeid shrimp. Tier 3 includes crawfish frog, diamondback terrapin, gulf menhaden, northern pintail, and river prawns. However, because no subset of focal species can address the goals of all stakeholders, many indicators not linked to focal species also were included to ensure that our products assess and act upon the overall ecological integrity of each habitat itself.