This theme is about Developing baseline information on where/how past, present, and future natural resource extraction and associated infrastructure is located to help inform decision-makers in their attempts to guide future decisions for protecting wildlife populations, habitats, and ecosystem functions while allowing responsible energy and minerals development Questions addressed Where has energy and minerals development occurred and where might it occur in the future (oil, gas, coal, coalbed wind, uranium, solar, trona---or soda ash---and aggregates)? What are the spatial and temporal patterns of those developments? Products / Outcomes Online maps of existing energy and minerals developments and associated databases (e.g., [...]
