The Great Basin Landscape Conservation Cooperative’s (Great Basin LCC) Conservation Planning Atlas (CPA) is a new geospatial portal that allows users to create and share unique mapping products. It incorporates over 1000 spatial data layers related to conservation of the Great Basin’s many natural and cultural resources. The CPA provides managers, researchers and planners from state, federal, local, NGO and private partners a valuable suite of tools for collaborative spatial planning. All of this information is housed in a single website where readers can access regional spatial layers, decision support tools, and Great Basin LCC project information and products. The CPA is one key part in the Great Basin LCC’s effort to focus at a landscape-scale and to use best available science toward improving collaboration and conservation efforts in the Great Basin. Great Basin LCC’s Geospatial Data Specialist, Eric Jensen, will be joined by Conservation Biology Institute’s Kai Foster to discuss the CPA. Together they will dive into navigation of the portal, data, tools and publications available, and the Data Basin suite of collaborative features—such as Groups, sharing and comment threads. They will also explore current use cases and share information about how you or your group can leverage the CPA for your own projects and planning.
