LandScope America—a collaborative project of NatureServe and the National Geographic Society—is a new online resource for the land-protection community and the public. By bringing together maps, data, photos, and stories about America’s natural places and open spaces, our goal is to inform and inspire conservation of our lands and waters.
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LandScope America is a unique collaborative effort of, for, and by the conservation community. Thank you to the hundreds of partners who are already helping.
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LandScope Chesapeake
A 2009 Executive Order declared the Chesapeake Bay “a national treasure” and redoubled efforts to restore the United States’ largest estuary. LandScope Chesapeake will help guide and track states’ progress toward a 2025 goal of protecting an additional 2 million acres across the watershed.
Conservation News and Updates
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AK: America's first climate refugees
The town of Newtok, on Alaska's west coast, faces the reality of being America's first climate refugees; residents have already started fleeing rising waters that may completely flood the town within five years.
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HI: First CO2 average over 400ppm
NOAA's atmospheric research station at Mauna Loa records the most-cited atmospheric CO2 concentrations in the world. On Thursday, they measured a daily average over 400ppm CO2 for the first time.
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FL: New bass species discovered
Florida Fish and Wildlife Commission scientists discovered that fish thought to be spotted bass were actually genetically distinct. They proposed the names Choctaw bass, Micropterus haiaka.
Florida Today, 08 May 2013 -
ME: Portland moves toward Styrofoam ban
The Portland City Council recently voted in favor of banning polystyrene packaging across the city. The ban will be reviewed and then go up for another vote this summer.
Portland Press Herald, 07 May 2013 -
World: Preserving soil for greater harvests
An account of farmers using no-till agriculture and other conservation agriculture practices to preserve the health of their soil.
Inter Press Service, 03 May 2013
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Release Notes v0.8.6
March 5, 2012 by Editor
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LandScope America receives support from ExxonMobil to enhance display of scientific information
October 13, 2010
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