GIS & Conservation Planning Toolkit
The GIS & Conservation Planning Toolkit was designed by the Landscape Conservation Cooperatives to help walk resources managers through integrating GIS data and planning into day-to-day operations. We still house this toolkit for practitioners to use in their conservation efforts.
It is important to think about and facilitate conservation planning at a larger spatial and temporal scale. In order to accomplish the vision of landscape-scale conservation planning, practitioners developed this toolkit to disseminate conservation literature, analytical products and information, and other resources to help guide land managers.
In this toolkit, you will find a framework that supports systematic conservation planning, from setting conservation targets to measuring conservation success.
The toolkit includes:
- Systematic conservation planning for thoughtful and proactive planning that is long-term and at large enough spatial scales to meet ambitious goals.
- GIS Tools and Resources to aid in systematic conservation planning. These tools, such as the U.S. Forest Service's Riparian Restoration to Promote Climate Change Resilience tool and The Nature Conservancy's Energy Forecasting Map Visualization tool allow users to examine the spatial relationship of key resources against current and projected impacts and consider possible management response options.
- Planning in Practice, where users can find, view, and download foundational maps and spatial data. In addition, users can view maps produced by Landscape Partnership partners such as Eastern Brook Trout Joint Venture. These maps are often built on new data and may serve as a launching point for your own work.
View this video by Conservation Planning Specialist Dr. Paul Leonard that provides a general overview on the function and use of the GIS & Conservation Planning Toolkit.
