ECP/SCGIS/SCB 2011 Conservation Map Contest HONORABLE MENTION : INNOVATION
Mark Endries, (US Fish & Wildlife Service, NC, with US Fish and Wildlife Service Asheville ES Office Staff)
(See Contest Background information at end) x2011 xCartography xWildlife xEndangered xLandscape xAnalysis xPrioritization
Wildlife faces a myriad of benefits and threats to their well-being. If one considers all of the benefits and threats to wildlife as a system, this system is very complex. A challenge to those responsible for the conservation and preservation of wildlife systems is the ability to efficiently provide information on these systems to those who need it.
The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service’s Asheville Field Office (AFO) is responsible for reviewing for endangered species compliance all federally authorized, funded, and permitted projects, and implementing listing and recovery activities for federally listed endangered and threatened species and candidate species of concern in Western North Carolina (WNC). Paramount to the ability of the AFO to effectively implement listing and recovery actions, as well as educate constituents on conservation issues in WNC, is a tool to provide conservation information in an effective manner. This tool would permit landscape-scale evaluation of a proposed project to assess its impact on lands important
