Conservation Mapping Tools
This selection of user friendly conservation mapping tools provides land trusts and individuals means to identify, view and map key land conservation metrics in order to inform conservation decisions, prioritize sites for conservation, and understand the distribution of resources across the landscape.
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https://biomap-mass-eoeea.hub.arcgis.com/ Recording on how to use BioMap (from Steering Committee meeting of December 9, 2022) |
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BioMap conservation targets are grouped into 2 Elements: |
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The index reveals which sites have characteristics that will make them “more likely to sustain diversity because they offer a wide range of micro-climate options within a connected area.”
Users can see if a location has far above average, above average, slightly above average, average, below average, or far below average climate resilience. Read the Resilient Sites Report to learn about how the analysis was conducted. |
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2. The analysis has already been done for the user, so the user can go straight to the location of interest and immediately learn the climate resilience potential. 3. Analysis extends beyond Massachusetts for those interested focusing on landscape-scale conservation. |
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Identify parcels within an area of interest that are highest priorities for protection based on habitat quality, climate change resilience, and other metrics such as parcel size and adjacency to existing protected parcels. The higher the number and darker the color, the more critical that parcel is for conservation based on selected inputs. Click on a parcel to learn why it received that score – each input is scored as 0 (did not exist) to 1, 2, or 3 (very important for this input). |
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https://maps.massgis.digital.mass.gov/MassMapper/MassMapper.html | |
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