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Track: Natural Resources and Conservation
William L. Allen
The Conservation Fund
PO Box 271
Chapel Hill, NC 27514
Telephone: 919-967-2223
Fax: 919-967-9702
E-mail: allentcf@aol.com
Cheryl Crupi
GIS Design for Regional Conservation Planning/Course Outline
The Conservation Fund has been asked by the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service's National Education and Training Center (NETC) to help develop a land and water conservation curriculum for the training, education, and leadership development of conservation professionals in the nonprofit, government, and corporate sectors. The Conservation Fund's GIS Program, Conservation GIS Solutions, has been asked to coordinate the development of courses aimed at applying cutting-edge conservation tools such as geographic information systems. Conservation GIS Solutions is developing an outline for a course on designing regional conservation planning projects using GIS as a tool to facilitate land use decision making. The course will address issues related to conservation GIS development (e.g., articulation of management objectives, user needs assessment, and GIS partnership development) as well as those related to GIS project design (project planning, data acquisition, development, and documentation, and project
implementation). The course will also include case studies of successful conservation GIS projects that have utilized GIS as a decision making tool. The Conservation Fund hopes that this course will help conservation professionals from the nonprofit, government, and corporate sectors develop partnerships to design successful regional conservation planning projects using GIS as a decision support tool. After feedback from the USFWS and other government agencies, Esri user conference attendees, corporate GIS users, and Land Trust Alliance members, we hope to offer the inaugural course at the NETC in late 1997.
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