Land Trusts Page 4
(ECP and CTSP grantees, reports, and other sites of interest for
conservation geography, mapping and GIS. Grantees are coded by
program and year of grant at the end of their name/state, i.e. e91 means
ECP grant in 1991. c=cstp, cm=ctsp-mac, cs=ctsp-software)
Riverside
Land Conservancy, Riverside CA c97. (4075 Mission Inn Avenue
Riverside, California, USA 92501 tel:(909) 788-0670 Exec Director Dave
Flietner) "The Riverside Land Conservancy is dedicated to the preservation
of open space by seeking to identify, protect, and manage habitats of
rare and endangered species, natural lands, and other sensitive sites
throughout Riverside County." See
"Photo tour of some of our preservation areas"
San Andreas Land Conservancy, Ca e97. (Whale City Cafe, 1 Ocean Ave. @ Highway
One Davenport, CA 95017 or P. O. Box 268, Davenport CA 95017 tel:(831)
427-3733 GIS contact: Dave Kossack, dkossack@igc.org)
"San Andreas Land Conservancy continues to promote the protection and restoration of
native habitats through the application of GIS and spatial analysis to
its own projects as well as assisting other organization in the conservation
community. Our on going projects include protection of San Vicente Creek
the other watersheds of Ben Lomond Mountain in Santa Cruz, CA...Farther
a field we have assisted the Big Sur Land Trust with data acquisition
and ArcView training and have produced a GIS project of Big Sur for the
Henry Miller Library, Big Sur. We continue to work with Friends of the
Tecate Cypress towards the protection of Coal Canyon and the wildlife
connection between the Santa Ana Mountains and Chino Hills. We are currently
working with the Midpeninsula Regional Open Space District to develop
vegetation maps for the lands the District owns and manages in the Santa
Cruz Mountains of San Mateo and Santa Clara Counties. " see the
Highlander newsletter for some
online map examples from SALC.
San Joaquin River Parkway Trust, Fresno CA c96.
(1550 E. Shaw Ave., Suite 114 Fresno, CA 93710 tel: (559) 248-8480 fax: (559) 248-8474. Exec
Director: Dave Koehler Email: Dkoehler@riverparkway.org)
"Our mission is to preserve and restore San Joaquin River lands having ecological,
scenic or historic significance, to educate the public on the need for
stewardship, to research issues affecting the river, and to promote educational
and recreational uses consistent with the protection of the river's resources.
...The River Parkway Trust is working in cooperation with local government
and the private sector, to create a 22 mile long greenbelt along the San
Joaquin River from Friant Dam to Highway 99. Permanently protected river
bottom land in the form of natural reserves, parks and open space now
totals over 1,600 acres." Don't miss their
Parkway Map.
Santa Cruz County Land Trust (Land Trust of Santa Cruz County),Ca e97. (734
Chestnut St, or: PO Box 1287, Santa Cruz, CA 95061-1287 Tel: 831-429-6116
Tel: 831-429-1166 Email: landtrst@cruzio.com GIS contact: Eric Schmidt)
GIS STATUS: "We are making great progress with the ArcView software
grant. We have been obtaining data from a number of different sources,
including the County and, through the Coastal Commission's Water CD-ROM
set, AMBAG, NWI and more. With these data, we've finished several maps
that have brought this organization very quickly from the typewriter era
into substantive, mapping-based conservation analysis. We are currently
working on two big, topographically diverse open space projects along
the Santa Cruz County coast. Both properties lend themselves to a wide
range of resource mapping and analysis, We plan to drape digital elevation
models on shaded relief, then add stream, road and habitat themes in order
to better model the open space properties we manage as well as those we
evaluate for acquisition."
Santa Monica Mountains Conservancy, Ca e98. (5750 Rameriz Canyon Road,
Malibu, California 90265 USA tel:310-589-3200 ext. 126 fax:310-589-2408
email:smmc@smmc.ca.gov gis contact: Jeffrey S. Bolton) "Through
direct action, alliances, partnerships, and joint powers authorities,
the Conservancy's mission is to strategically buy back, preserve, protect,
restore, and enhance treasured pieces of Southern California to form an
interlinking system of urban, rural, and river parks; open space; trails;
and wildlife habitats that are easily accessible to the general public."
GIS STATUS: "The following are some of the helpful contributions
that ArcView and our grant has made to our agency: development monitoring,
land acquisition planning, grant writing, graphics, natural resources
analysis, GIS cooperation with other agencies, mapping of parkland, updating
park boundaries, staff reports, and environmental analysis. The DAK has
provided us with the capabilities of converting City of LA parcel data
into out projection. But the most significant contribution has been with
fire brush clearance on out properties. The fire brush mapping that we
can now achieve is going to save us significant amounts of money (we don't
even have a budget for this) and staff time. This mapping has shown that
in large areas where we have always cleared, we should not have because,
now with GIS, detailed City parcel data, and 3 foot DOQs we can accurately
determine where we should clear. ...We are now ready to move onto the
next step in GIS analysis, which is to use Spatial Analyst and 3D Analyst
to continue to enhance land management within the Santa Monica Mountains."
Save-the-Redwoods League, San Francisco CA c97.
(114 Sansome Street, Room 605, San Francisco, CA 94104-3814, tel: (415) 362 2352
fax: (415) 362 7017 Email: saveredwoods@igc.org)
"The Save-the-Redwoods League has practiced its unique approach
to conserving California's redwood forest lands since 1918. We buy land
from willing sellers at fair market value using private donations (matched
by public park funds when available), and donate this land to one of the
California Redwood State Parks, or another public park or preserve. Thirty-seven
California Redwood State Parks, three National Parks, a National Monument,
and many local public parks have been established to protect Coast Redwoods
and Giant Sequoias, and the Save-the-Redwoods League has provided over
a hundred million dollars in donated funds to help purchase more than
a quarter of a million acres of redwood forest land that is now preserved
within these parks."
Redwood Resources
is an excellent page of background and guides to redwoods conservation, including a
comprehensive Redwoods Bibliography.
Don't miss the
Redwoods Conservation Master Plan, an example of a GIS-based master conservation
planning approach, including a comprehensive Stakeholder
Survey and Planning Primer.
Sheffield Land Trust, Ma c98.
(404 LeGeyt Rd., P.O. Box 940, Sheffield, MA
01257-0940 USA tel:(413) 229-0234 fax:(413) 229-0239 email:shefland@bcn.net.
GIS contact: Kathy Orlando (413) 229-6665)
"The Sheffield Land Trust is a nonprofit membership organization that protects
land primarily through private action. Established in 1989, the Land Trust today holds
conservation restrictions throughout Sheffield and is active in diverse
projects, from creating wetlands preserves and conducting vegetation studies,
to annual river clean-ups....The common factor in all of our work is that
maps guide us in everything that we do. Each organization has their own
maps and only when projects overlap do we get a glimpse at the larger
conservation picture. We have created several maps by hand that have brought
this information together, but it is always changing. We have data from
the state and all our partners in files and in our heads but need one
place to put this all together to really use as a planning tool. GIS is
the perfect tool and we have access to the base information from which
we can do the analysis."
Sierra Foothills Conservancy, Ca e97.
(PO Box 529 Prather, CA 93651. Phone: 209/855-3473 Fax: 209/855-3473 (call first)
Email: sfc@protosource.com. GIS contact: Mike Spiess mspiess@csufresno.edu.)
"The Sierra Foothill Conservancy is a land trust dedicated to the preservation
of open space and traditional land uses threatened by the rapid urbanization in the
foothills of Fresno and Madera Counties. The Conservancy now manages 3,400
acres of unspoiled natural land with plans to protect additional land
in the future. Our goals include public education and scientific research.
We plan to use a GIS for the following:. -To keep a resource inventory of
the existing preserves and surrounding lands. We are in the beginning
stages of a archaeological inventory and mapping project. Existing plane
table maps will be added to the GIS. TNC also has resource data (ArcInfo)
as part of their state wide "scoping" project that they will share with
us. We also have data from the biological surveys and aerial photos (1940,
1963, 1993 USGS).. -Land acquisition planning. We currently have Fresno
county parcel data in ArcInfo format and DEM data. (This is being used
by a volunteer using USFS facilities.). -Range management. Tracking feed
(grass) production, animal units, and vegetative mapping.. -To produce
educational materials such as maps for our on going programs."
The Society for the Protection of New Hampshire Forests, Concord NH c95.
(54 Portsmouth Street, Concord, NH 03301-5400. tel: 603-224-9945 Email: info@spnhf.org
GIS contact: Dan Sundquist)
"Founded by a handful of concerned citizens in 1901, the Society for the
Protection of New Hampshire Forests (SPNHF) has today grown into one of the country's
most effective statewide land conservation groups, responsible for the protection of
over 100,000 acres in permanent reservations, easements and restrictions, placing them
among the top 10 land trusts in the country...BIOLOGICAL INVENTORY REVEALS MUCH
ABOUT SOCIETY LANDS: The past few months have seen exciting advances in
the knowledge we have about the natural diversity of our forest reservations.
A new computerized geographic information system (GIS) has enhanced our
ability to learn more about our properties. It allows us to overlay our
forest cover type maps with other information such as soils, wetlands,
and geology. In depth, scientific studies on the Hay Reservation in Newbury
and the Stoddard properties are uncovering rare plant communities, cataloging
mammals, and surveying bird populations - all of which provide new insights
into the structure and function of our forest ecosystems. By 1999, the
GIS program now includes a strategic land protection planning project
than seeks to set priorities for expanding the protected lands base around
SPNHF properties (28,000 acres and counting) and to connect to other protected
lands in the vicinity. SPNHF have four study areas underway right now
around NH, and will continue with this approach in years to come. Part
of the study method involves community interaction and input from the
local conservation commissions re: key natural and cultural values to
protect.
All text by the respective organizations/authors
January 2, 1997
Web layout & design: Charles Convis, ESRI Conservation Program
April 2, 1996
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