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Thanks to Our Partners

© Jack Looney Thanks to Our Partners Featured Image

LandScope America relies on the voluntary participation of partners from across America — from land trust and other conservation groups to state and federal agencies, local governments, scientists, writers and photographers. We extend our thanks to everyone on this ever-growing list, which currently includes more than 140 organizations.

State Pilot Programs
Land Trusts
Special Thanks
National Editorial Panel
LandScope America Project Team
Project Advisory Council
Conservation Organizations and Public Agencies

State Pilot Programs

Natural heritage programs in five pilot states— Colorado, Florida, Maine, Virginia, and Washington— are playing lead roles in developing the website and compiling content for their states.  

Colorado Natural Heritage Program, Colorado State University (Lee Grunau, Melissa Landon, Michael Menefee, Renee Rondeau)

Florida Natural Areas Inventory, Florida State University (Amber Ignatius, Amy Knight, Gary Knight, Jon Oetting)

Beginning with Habitat — a  collaboration between the Maine Natural Areas Program, Maine Dept. of Conservation (Sarah Demers, Molly Docherty), and the Maine Department of Inland Fisheries and Wildlife (Steve Walker)

Virginia Division of Natural Heritage, Virginia Dept. of Conservation and Recreation (Jason Bulluck, Tom Smith)

Washington Natural Heritage Program, Washington Dept. of Natural Resources (John Gamon, Jack McMillen, Janice Miller)

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Land Trusts

Land trusts in the five pilot states have collaborated with us to provide stories, photos, and insights about their work. Thanks especially to the following collaborators for their time, enthusiasm, and good conservation work:

Colorado: Aspen Valley Land Trust, Colorado Cattlemen’s Agricultural Land Trust, Colorado Open Lands, Estes Valley Land Trust, Legacy Land Trust.

Florida: Alachua Conservation Trust, Conservation Trust for Florida, Indian River Land Trust 

Maine: Kennebec Estuary Collaboration, Kittery Land Trust, Maine Coast Heritage Trust, Quoddy Regional Land Trust.

Virginia: New River Land Trust, Piedmont Environmental Council, Valley Conservation Council, Virginia Eastern Shore Land Trust.

Washington: Capitol Land Trust, Cascade Land Conservancy, Columbia Land Trust, Jefferson Land Trust, Nisqually Land Trust, Whatcom Land Trust.

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Special Thanks

LandScope America reflects the vision of Carl W. Knobloch, Jr. for advancing conservation of our nation’s natural heritage. We are deeply grateful to the West Hill Foundation for Nature for its generous philanthropic support for this project. 

Thanks to our partners at the Land Trust Alliance, especially Renee Kivikko and Rob Aldrich, for their help with connecting this project firmly to the needs of land trusts. Thank you to the 180 land trust staff and volunteers across America who participated in our survey of land trusts.

Thanks to The Nature Conservancy, especially Danielle Conboy and Brad Northrup, for providing data on its ecoregional plans, protected areas, and other content topics, and to many staff at the Conservancy—both in the Worldwide Office in Arlington and the state chapters in Colorado, Florida, Maine, Virginia, and Washington—for their assistance with content development.

We’d also like to recognize a number of individuals whose early interest in and support for LandScope America has been important to its progress, including:  Gina LaRocco, Katie Theoharides, Sara Vickerman, and Aimee Weldon of Defenders of Wildlife; Andrew duMoulin, Breece Robertson, Matthew Shaffer, and Matt Zieper of The Trust for Public Land; Jim Strittholt and Tosha Comendant of the Conservation Biology Institute; Kim Herman and Deb Kraus of the Natural Areas Association; Dave Chadwick (previously) and Mark Humpert of the Association of Fish and Wildlife Agencies; John Cecil of the National Audubon Society; Dave Theobald of the Colorado State University Natural Resource Ecology Laboratory; Larry Orman of Green Info Network; Peter Szabo, Principal, Bloomingdale Management Advisors; and Chris Sawyer of the West Hill Foundation for Nature.

Special thanks to Bruce Stein, previously Vice President for Science at NatureServe and now with the National Wildlife Federation, who led the project through much of its concept design and development phases, and continues to provide insight as a member of the National Editorial Panel.

Thanks to the team at Blue Raster for their exceptional work on the map viewer and other aspects of the website, especially Stephen Ansari, Carolyn Borton, and Michael Lippmann.

Thanks to the team at Navigation Arts for their outstanding work on the website design, development, and branding, especially Tom Hoover, Doug Brashear, Terry Hudson, John Lodge, and Leo Mullen, and the technology team of David Mead, Tim Stephens, Daren Arnold and Ralph Saunders.

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National Editorial Panel

The National Editorial Panel provides review, oversight, and counsel on all aspects of the editorial process to help ensure that the website materials and tools meet the highest scientific and conservation standards.

Allen Carroll, Chief Cartographer, National Geographic Maps
Pat Comer, Chief Terrestrial Ecologist, NatureServe
Renee Kivikko, Director of National Services, Land Trust Alliance
David Maddox, Ph.D., Sound Science LLC
Larry Master, Ph.D., Chief Zoologist Emeritus, NatureServe
Bruce Stein, Ph.D., Associate Director, Wildlife Conservation and Global Warming, National Wildlife Federation
Bruce Young, Ph.D., Director of Species Science, NatureServe

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LandScope America Project Team

NatureServe

Mary Klein, President and CEO
Kyle Copas, Senior Online Editor
Dave Hauver, Software Engineer
Todd Parks, Website Developer
Heather Rorer, Partnership and Outreach Coordinator
Rob Riordan, Editor-in-Chief (interim)
Demian Rybock, Spatial Data Manager
Lori Scott, Project Director
Judy Soule, Director of Member Relations
Marta VanderStarre, Communications Manager
Rickie White, Technical Content Coordinator

National Geographic Maps

Allen Carroll, Chief Cartographer
Frank Biasi, Director, Conservation Projects
Miriam Stein, Photo Editor

Technology Partners

Map viewer development and other Flex components by Blue Raster.

Map server provided by ESRI.

Basemap imagery provided by Microsoft.

Website design by Navigation Arts.

Website powered by Percussion Content Management System.

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