A 2012 pilot project between NatureServe and the Nevada office of the BLM over 25 million acres was the most complete test of the Yale Framework for mapping climate change analyses. This guide, an offshoot of that project, is meant as an overview of the Yale Framework and recommendations for using it.
LandScope Chesapeake is a free, publicly accessible web application that enables decision-makers, practitioners, and citizens within the Chesapeake Bay watershed to work together toward shared land protection goals.
The conservation status factors used by NatureServe, its member programs, and their collaborators are organized into three broad categories: rarity, trends, and threats. This revised publication defines the factors and subscribes a series of conditions for whether, and how, each status factor should be used.