Mapping the South's Forests of the Future Study Area
Summary
Mapping the South’s Forests of the Future project leveraged existing regional and partnership-driven conservation planning efforts collectively defining the Southeast Conservation Adaptation Strategy, which had compiled several geospatial priorities, and expanded that work to other forest and conservation entities to produce a comprehensive geospatial inventory of planned and prioritized areas of forest protection/retention and restoration. This project integrates and incorporates priorities into a single map to visualize multiple potential futures of Southern forests while considering the gradient of uncertainty surrounding successful implementation of conservation plans, urbanization and other development pressures, and coastal forest [...]
Summary
Mapping the South’s Forests of the Future project leveraged existing regional and partnership-driven conservation planning efforts collectively defining the Southeast Conservation Adaptation Strategy, which had compiled several geospatial priorities, and expanded that work to other forest and conservation entities to produce a comprehensive geospatial inventory of planned and prioritized areas of forest protection/retention and restoration. This project integrates and incorporates priorities into a single map to visualize multiple potential futures of Southern forests while considering the gradient of uncertainty surrounding successful implementation of conservation plans, urbanization and other development pressures, and coastal forest response to sea level rise. Individual map layers estimate uncertainty for years 2030, 2040, 2050, and 2060. The project's study area stretches from Virginia to eastern Texas and Oklahoma.
