Project Summary
In September, 2011, The North Pacific Land Conservation Cooperative (NPLCC) awarded
Ecotrust a grant to develop a conservation priorities tool intended to assist the NPLCC and other
natural resource managers, individuals, and community organizations in accessing,
understanding and visualizing a wide variety of data sets pertaining to aquatic and terrestrial
species, anthropogenic threats and potential vulnerabilities to climate change for freshwater and
forest ecosystems throughout the NPLCC geographic area. Over the course of the grant period,
Ecotrust developed a custom, spatially explicit, on-line decision support tool that was designed
to both visualize these data and to identify regional priorities at the scale of the HYDRO1k
geographic database.
