Identify Conservation Priorities

Environmental groups, land trusts, local and state governments, federal agencies, foundations, landowners, citizen advocates  -- regardless of your role in the land-protection community, LandScope America can enhance your understanding of conservation planning and help you receive the greatest conservation value from your action and investment.

Many worthy initiatives have already established national, state, and local conservation priorities. Notable efforts include State Wildife Action Plans, Nature Conservancy ecoregional assessments, natural heritage program priorities, land trust plans, state and regional open space strategies, and local “greenprint” efforts. Each approach represents slightly varied values, resulting in distinct, though often related, sets of priorities.

LandScope America will provide insight into these approaches, revealing the different ways they emphasize the preservation of working lands, biodiversity, rare species and habitat, public recreation, or cultural, historical and scenic landscapes. What’s more, our dynamic maps and information will reveal precisely where these priorities overlap and let you adjust the weight given to different values, making it possible to integrate support of multiple priorities and values within a single project area.

Places with the greatest needs are often the ones with the greatest opportunities. LandScope America's maps, data, and analyses prepare you with what you need to know how and where to act.

Such resources will be valuable to small- to medium-sized land trusts trying to cope with unintended consequences of success. When requests to help with local or regional conservation projects exceed your available human and fiscal resources, your organization needs the ability to screen projects and pursue only those that fit your mission best. The tools LandScope America provides can help you both vet opportunities and further refine the criteria you use to select projects.