Explore Places

Who hasn’t gazed longingly at a map of faraway places and, imagining yourself an explorer, wondered what you would find there?

LandScope America is a sophisticated, interactive website that NatureServe and the National Geographic plan to release in late 2008. Its dynamic maps, fascinating stories, and rich photography and multimedia content will let you explore America's special places from your desktop, Regardless whether they're new territory or native ground. In the process, LandScope America will enrich your understanding of our national landscape and fuel your passion for its incomparable forests and fields, prairies and deserts, river, lake, and ocean shores.

1. Choose & Learn About a Place

   

   LandScope America will let you explore America's unique places, whether they’re new territory or your native soil. Rich content that combines detailed maps with great writing, photography, audio and video will inspire your imagination. As diverse as the locations they describe, these fascinating accounts of the American landscape and the people who work to save it will reflect the many ways we connect with and understand the living world.

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2. Find & View Data

   

   A state-of-the art map viewer will be central to the LandScope America experience. Choose your base maps on the fly, then zoom smoothly from a national view to state and local perspectives anywhere across the country. The viewer's flexible, intuitive interface will let you access critical data on the places you’re exploring and highlight the character and condition of lands as you explore them.

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3. See & Share Success Stories

   

   America is home to countless everyday conservation heroes -- the professionals and citizen-volunteers who celebrate, sustain and protect our wild lands as well as our working farms, ranches and forests. LandScope America will showcase the results of their work and enable others to build from it, make connections, and take action.

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