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AUTHORS: Ian Horn, Kentucky State Nature Preserves Commission
ABSTRACT: Multiple agencies monitor at-risk species in Kentucky. By statute, the Kentucky State Nature Preserves Commission (KSNPC) maintains a registry of these species, natural communities, and natural areas. KSNPC biologists and other conservation organizations provide observational data that may potentially contribute to this registry. Currently, Kentucky does not have a one-stop shop for completing environmental reviews or perform environmental planning based on at-risk species. As Kentucky’s natural heritage program and NatureServe affiliate, KSNPC is implementing an Environmental Review Tool (ERT) in 2017 with multiple objectives, including greatly reduced processing time, increased efficiency, and increased public awareness of Kentucky’s conservation attributes. The browser-based mapping tool will be accessible by organizations and citizens at varying levels, according to the specific agreements between KSNPC and the entity that requests the data. For example, KSNPC could provide a customized layer with data concerning Species of Greatest Conservation Need (SGCN) to a fish and wildlife agency. The advantage for an organization to use the ERT would be the ability to access the most up-to-date data and a formal report quickly, in most cases within minutes, rather than on an annual or multiyear basis. As with many other web mapping tools, organizations will have the ability to load their own shapefiles in the ERT and perform analyses for their own projects/areas of interest. The Environmental Review Tool will increase environmental awareness in Kentucky and allow for greater communication and cooperation between conservation organizations and project planners.
Tuesday October 31, 2017 9:30am - 9:45am EDT
McCreary