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by: The Trust for Public Land
The first comprehensive online database of land conservation in America was re-launched on February 5, 2010, by The Trust for Public Land (TPL), a national conservation organization.
The website, which has been the definitive source of information about land conservation policy at local, state, and federal levels, now offers new parcel-level data and mapping features to give users greater access to explore the results of land conservation. This week the new features launch for five states: Florida, Massachusetts, Missouri, Montana, and Oregon. In February data from five more states will be added: Alaska, Arizona, Colorado, Idaho, and Wyoming.
TPL launched the Conservation Almanac in 2006 in response to numerous requests from policymakers, members of the media, and conservation practitioners about the growing funding sources for land conservation across America. TPL will continue updating the Almanac as new information becomes available and will add new state data each month.
''With a singular resource available for exploring the impact of land conservation funding, adding deeper property information and a mapping feature were the logical next steps,'' said Ernest Cook, director of TPL's Conservation Strategies department, which developed the Almanac. ''Up until now, there have been attempts to capture individual pieces of the picture of land conservation in America, but none have been comprehensive, assembling data consistently and completely in one place.''
The website offers overviews of state policy frameworks, programs, and agencies responsible for funding and managing land conservation, and the database offers users context for assessing the impacts of the growing and evolving conservation finance movement.
Resource(s): http://www.conservationalmanac.org/
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