How is this effort related to other national protected areas mapping efforts, such as the Protected Area Database of the U.S. (PAD-US) and the National Conservation Easement Database (NCED)?
The Conservation Almanac parallels the work of the public-private partnerships that are building the Protected Areas Database of the U.S. (PAD-US) and the National Conservation Easement Database (NCED). PAD-US is an inventory of public and non-profit fee-owned lands that are dedicated to open space uses. The NCED is an inventory of conservation easements dedicated to open space uses. The Conservation Almanac is using compatible technology and coordinating with PAD-US and NCED, to ensure that both data sets can be used in creating a complete GIS-based overview of protected areas. Since the projects are related and include some of the same players, if an agency or organization would like to share fee or easement data collected as a part of the Conservation Almanac, TPL can pass it on to the appropriate partner for either PAD-US or NCED.
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