Identify Your Conservation Elements The first step in the conservation planning process is identifying and defining your conservation elements – the species, ecosystems, and places that you wish to conserve. NatureServe Vista provides two tools to assist you in completing this step.Learn More.
Summarize Conservation Value NatureServe Vista will help you to summarize the conservation value of multiple elements across your planning area, allowing you to identify locations that should be conserved as well as locations that are less important for conservation. Learn More.
Generate Conservation Solutions NatureServe Vista will help you prepare data inputs for industry-standard scenario generation tools MARXAN and SPOT. These tools will help you generate a set of proposed conservation areas to help meet your conservation goals.Learn More.
Evaluate Land Use Scenarios NatureServe Vista integrates conservation planning with socioeconomic factors such as current and proposed land use, management practices, and threats, allowing you to evaluate the compatibility of various land use plans or management practices with the elements that you want to conserve. It also allows you to evaluate whether or not adequate policies are in place to ensure that compatible land uses or management practices remain compatible over time.Learn More.
Explore Sites and Create Mitigation Plans NatureServe Vista will help you to access site-level information and to generate mitigation plans “on-the-fly,” resulting in alternative land use and management plans that better meet your conservation goals.Learn More.
Document Your Analyses and Generate Reports NatureServe Vista’s reporting and documentation features enable you to communicate with decision makers and constituents, enhancing your ability to implement the land use or management plans that you produce.Learn More.
Get Results NatureServe Vista’s design simplifies the process of conducting the complex analyses needed to support land use planning and resource management decisions. This reduces the amount of hands-on time that is required to perform analyses and enables you to update your plan as often as needed with new data or land uses, resulting in land use or management plans that are responsive to changing conditions.Learn More.
The planning focus in NatureServe Vista is the conservation element, which represents the features you want to conserve in your area. These can be biological elements such as species and ecosystems, culturally-significant elements such as historic or cultural landmarks, or socially-important elements such as viewsheds or prime agricultural soils.
