Websites
Land Trust GIS Website
The Land Trust GIS website contains a wealth of information about how land trusts can apply Geographic Information Systems (GIS) to their work. It is a joint project of GreenInfo Network in partnership with the Land Trust Alliance, and with the assistance of CommEn Space.
Community Resource Mapper
The Southeast Watershed Forum invites you to use its new Community Resource Mapper assistance to help you compare land cover and protected land data and create tools for land conservation and water quality protection planning. Create your own maps on a county, watershed, or state level. Go to www.watershed-assistance.net/mapper for more information and to access pilot demonstrations of this resource.
Conservation and Climate Change Clearinghouse
For individuals working to protect the Earth's land and biodiversity from the increasing anthropogenic effects of climate change. We intend the Clearinghouse to serve two practical purposes: to help you both stay up to date and to find what you need-quickly.
Private Landowner Network
Private Landowner Network (PLN) provides a simple and effective means for landowners to connect with qualified, often local, professionals to navigate the complex ins and outs of real estate transactions, tax and estate planning, and regional land conservation activities.
Partnership Resource Center
A partnership developed through the shared vision of the National Forest Foundation and the USDA - Forest Service. The purpose of the website is to provide our partnering organizations and Forest Service staff with the information and access they need for enhanced working relationships. Includes resources, funding, links to partners, and more.
USDA Soil Survey Maps Available Online
NRCS has soil maps and data available online for more than 95 percent of the nation’s counties and expects that will improve to 100 percent soon. The site is free and is maintained as the single authoritative source of soil survey information. This information is critical to land trusts for baseline documentation done for agricultural lands under conservation easement management agreements.
The Program on Conservation Innovation
A website out of Havard University that focuses on efforts to forge remarkable advances in the fields of conservation science, education, advocacy and policy, resource protection, and stewardship.
Website for Financial Advisors
The Open Space Protection Collaborative serving the Carolinas has a website which aims to provide financial advisors with the necessary resources and know-how to advise conservation-minded clients about conservation planning. The website has information helpful to land trusts throughout the Carolina and beyond.
Online Database of Conservation Ballot Measures
Developed by the Trust For Public Land, a national conservation organization, the LandVote Database serves as the premier source of information about conservation ballot measures. The database brings together a comprehensive history for all conservation-related ballot measures that have been voted on since 1999.
Farmland Information Center Website
On the Farmland Information Center website you’ll find a collection of statistics, laws, literature and technical resources related to farm and ranch land protection and stewardship. The Farmland Information Center is a service of the American Farmland Trust in partnership with NRCS.
FarmFoody
A social networking tool that matches local farms to foodies, through the use of maps and tags. Farms tag what they have, and Foodies tag what they want.
