Ecological systems map

October 6, 2015/in Aquatic, Base Data, Terrestrial /by Hutch

A land cover map based on the map of ecological systems originally developed by The Nature Conservancy – The Northeast Terrestrial Habitat Map – and subsequently modified by UMass/Designing Sustainable Landscapes. Major changes include updates to roads, development, streams, and coastal wetlands. This is the basemap used to build both the Index of Ecological Integrity and species landscape capability (wildlife habitat). It is therefore important in the selection of terrestrial core areas.

View this product as a web map on Data Basin.

Access this data as a GIS download from the North Atlantic LCC website.

Read the Technical Abstract for this data layer (dslLand.tif).

About Connect the Connecticut

What can we do today to ensure a sustainable future for the Connecticut River watershed? Connect the Connecticut is a collaborative effort to identify the best places to start: a network of priority lands and waters that can support wildlife and natural systems, with multiple pathways for migration, restoration, development, and conservation.

Connect the Connecticut is supported by The North Atlantic Landscape Conservation Cooperative, an applied science and management partnership that builds upon a long history of conservation in the region to unite stakeholders around common goals for sustaining natural and cultural resources, and to develop tools and strategies to achieve those goals in the face of threats and uncertainty.

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