Track: Ecology, Conservation, and Archaeology
Assessing Oregon's Living Landscape: Opportunities for Conserving Biodiversity
Keith HuppertsThe Oregon Biodiversity Project (OBP) is a partnership of more than fifty collaborators from the environmental community; ranching, forestry, energy, and agricultural industries; and federal and State government to develop a State-wide biodiversity conservation strategy. Using geographic information systems, OBP assessed biodiversity in Oregon at two landscape levels: State-wide and by ecoregion. First, a State-wide assessment of biodiversity in Oregon examined management practices on public lands, vegetation change, at-risk species, aquatic ecosystems, and human impacts on the environment. OBP then performed a closer examination of these issues on an ecoregion basis. By overlaying GIS data layers and focusing on conservation issues appropriate to each individual ecoregion, OBP highlighted conservation opportunity areas within each ecoregion to target conservation investment and build a framework for future biodiversity conservation.
Keith Hupperts
Defenders of Wildlife
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Lake Oswego, OR
USA
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