CONSERVATION GIS / SCGIS HISTORY PROJECT DOC #A ver2 xHistory xTTT xScholars xConference xScgis xConservation GIS Alliance
(- FIRST PUBLISHED in1997 on the then-new conservationgis.org website www.conservationgis.org/ecphistory/ecphistory.html
-Updated and posted at SCGIS.org in 2008 for 10 year anniversary, arouind 2014 condensed to short summary.
-significant updates in 2015 and addition of a summary timeline at conservationgis.org www.conservationgis.org/scgis/SCGISHistorySummary.html
-project moved to GEONET in 2018 and expanded significantly)
INTRODUCTION
This is the first draft document in a project to try to build a more organized & readable history of Conservation GIS. It’s scope will go back to some of the first computerized resources mapping efforts on personal computers in the 1980’s and include the origins in Esri software and it’s Conservation GIS program in 1989. Much of its content, including this first document, will focus on the Society for Conservation GIS, founded in 1997, but as this and many documents will show, had extensive antecedents in projects, programs and individuals through the preceding decade.
