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For our initial release, LandScope America is focused on providing data, information and stories from five pilot states -- Colorado, Florida, Maine, Virginia, and Washington -- in addition to some representative content from the across the rest of the national conservation landscape.

During subsequent phases, we'll expand our coverage to include the remaining 45 states and move toward the goal of providing a truly encyclopedic resource about the conservation of America’s natural places.

Pilot States

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LandScope Colorado

We are drawn naturally to Colorado's mountains, their magnificent scale, their commanding presence. Most human intervention leaves mountains fundamentally unscathed. To really know Colorado, however, we have to look close. At smaller scales, human impact can be greater, human interaction more moving. Look, live, and know it better.

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LandScope Florida

Florida is home to a remarkable variety of natural ecosystems: stunning white sand dunes, timeless cypress swamps, subtropical hammocks and rocklands, vast dry prairies, sandhills, scrubs and more. These areas provide habitat for an amazing array of species, including as many as 300 plants, 40 vertebrates and 400 invertebrates found nowhere else in the world.

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LandScope Maine

Maine is a land rich in contrasts ranging from the boreal to the temperate, freshwater to saltwater, upland to wetland, alpine to lowland. The state owes its enormous natural variety and biological wealth to its 17.5 million acres of vast forests, rugged mountains, thousands of lakes and ponds, wetlands, rivers and streams, thousands of miles of bold coastline, and coastal islands and ledges.

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LandScope Virginia

From its river, bay and sea shores in the east to the Appalachian highlands in the west, Virginia harbors a wealth of natural and cultural riches.

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LandScope Washington

Washington has a remarkably rich natural heritage, rivaled by few places in the world. From pounding surf to alpine meadows, from ancient rainforest to sagebrush desert, our state boasts an incredible diversity of ecosystems and species.

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