NatureServe/National Geographic - LandScope America

From Meriwether Lewis to John Muir and Harriet Chalmers Adams to Barry Lopez, the lure of exploring natural places is an enduring theme of the American experience. What modern-day lover of the American landscape hasn’t from time to time imagined walking in their footsteps, gazing longingly at a map of faraway places and wondering what he or she would find there?

Embracing this spirit of exploration, NatureServe and the National Geographic Society are collaborating to develop LandScope America, a new website that promises to empower people to explore natural places from their desktop in exceptionally vivid and useful ways. The Land Trust Alliance is helping this effort by providing advice and guidance to the effort and connecting the LandScope America developers with land trusts in target areas.