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Focus. Protected Areas Data for Calif. Larry Orman, Exec. Director October 25, 2007. GreenInfo Network. Non-profit organization supports public interest groups and agencies with GIS, founded 1996 Nine GIS staff support about 100 groups per year, mostly in California

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  1. Focus

  2. Protected Areas Data for Calif. Larry Orman, Exec. Director October 25, 2007

  3. GreenInfo Network • Non-profit organization supports public interest groups and agencies with GIS, founded 1996 • Nine GIS staff support about 100 groups per year, mostly in California • Finishing up detailed database of protected lands to all of California by end of 2007 (succeeds PCTL) • Asked to help coordinate effort to improve U.S. protected lands data • www.greeninfo.org

  4. Key Ag. Information Needs • Rural Parcelization • Ranchland – land market framework in relation to parcel mixes and regulatory frameworks • (Critical/desirable mass of farmland in a particular geography, for long term viability)

  5. Messaging About Mapped Information • Maps are always messages • Most people don’t understand maps • Most people don’t have time for what they don’t understand • Make maps stories that immediately engage and hold intended audiences

  6. Extreme Makeover • item

  7. Protected Lands Coverage – End of 2007

  8. DATA - Statewide Status • Bay Area, SoCal, Central Coast, So SJ Valley generally complete • Near done: • Sierra Nevada • No Central Valley • North Coast • Sacramento (SACOG) • State Parks project, plus other resources

  9. For more information Larry Orman, Executive Director GreenInfo Network www.greeninfo.orglarry@greeninfo.org

  10. California Protected Lands • The PCTL – Public and Conservation Trust Lands • Mostly Federal and State agencies • Incomplete, older, not highly accurate, few easements • The challenge of funding silos • GIN protected lands databases built region by region

  11. Better Data Drives Public Access Tools

  12. BLACK BOX Vision: The Process for Getting Data • Best available data (parcel to quad) • Scale up from states/regions • Bring in federal data • Integrate (black box) • Publish to national, global and other users • Maintain on annual/bi-annual cycle

  13. National Dataset: A Vision for the Future • Any user can know exactly what open lands are protected anywhere in the United States, and can easily connect this inventory to conservation and other land assessment systems. • Key elements: • Public-private network of collaborating organizations • Sound business plan for ongoing maintenance • Investment to bring all state and federal inventories up to reasonable standard

  14. x x Open Space • “Open Space” – inventory of land for open space purposes • Not all public lands (city halls, dumps, etc.) • Not structural recreation facilities • Not private recreation sites

  15. How to Get There • 2007 assessment work concluded a design process needed • Design budget is $250,000 (modest) – Doris Duke Foundation, USGS, possibly one or two other candidates • Create and staff six teams to work through key questions • Coordinating committee to integrate, review with larger stakeholder group • Report back by end of 2008 with implementation plan • BUT, create momentum as we go!

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