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Focus
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Using GIS to Support Partnerships for
Conservation

• Western Region Natural Heritage Conference
• Lake Tahoe
• April 15, 2008
• Larry Orman, Exec. Director

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Presentation Road Map

• GreenInfo Network
• Partnerships four examples
• GIS and communication strategy

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GreenInfo Network

• Non-profit organization founded 1996
• 10 GIS staff support about 100 groups per year,
  mostly in California
• Public health, demographic, environmental and
  conservation projects
• Consultant, not a policy or advocacy
• www.greeninfo.org

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Some of Our Clients
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What GreenInfo Does

• Design showcase maps
• Create analyze spatial data
• Develop database applications
• Create great presentations
• Put maps on the web
• Support all levels of planning
• Inform communications strategy

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GIS as a Framework for Conservation Partnerships

• Enhancing regional collaboration for acquiring
  lands
• Aiding a network of land trusts
• Supporting a large grant-making program for
  wilderness
• Building a comprehensive data set of California
  protected lands
• Value of a public interest support organization.
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Bay Area Open Space Council

• Est. 1986
• Public agencies, land trusts, others
• Education
• Funding collaboration
• Vision, strategy

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Bay Area Open Space Council

• Annual conference
• Funding advocacy
• Web site
• Monthly mtgs
• Research projects
• Visioning

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Bay Area Open Space Council

• GIS Inventory as critical catalyst
• Partnership with GreenInfo Network
• Connections to all BAOSC members (50)
• ParkInfo development
• Conservation planning strategy and visioning

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California Council of Land Trusts

• Statewide association of LTs
• 80 land trusts
• Lobbying
• Education
• Information

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California Council of Land Trusts

• BAOSC background, LTA
• Rise of land trusts, funding
• GreenInfo connection
• The landscape of land trusts
• Land inventory leadership

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Preserving Wild California

• Wildlands and wilderness
• Role of private philanthropy
• Linked to public policy strategies
• Grants
• Land purchase
• Policy
• Capacity

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Preserving Wild California

• Resources Legacy Fund
• GreenInfo internal support
• Strategy
• Grants
• Accomplishments

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Preserving Wild California

• Grantee support
• Broader efforts
• Protected lands
• Outreach, education

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Protected Areas Inventory

• Critical data set
• Connects many Calif. efforts. . .
• Bay Area history, GreenInfo
• State PCTL

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Protected Areas Inventory

• Role of non-profit as driver
• Many groups BAOSC, RLF, land trusts, agencies
• Regional framework
• Now CPAD
• ParkInfo
• PADUS

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For more information

• Larry Orman
• GreenInfo Network
• www.greeninfo.org larry_at_greeninfo.org

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