All in the comfort of your home or office

Are you familiar with this map?

It is the Conservation Lands Network, about 2 million acres of existing and potential protected parks, trails, working lands, and open spaces.  It's available online in various useful forms including maps, GIS data, Explorer and brochures.  

Have you wanted to dig deeper into this map?  Wonder how this map came to be? 

Now, available from the comfort of your home or office, is the Conservation Lands Network full report.  In your comfortable chair or on the couch you can explore ponds, vegetation types and enjoy stunning photography of the region's flora and fauna.  With a few clicks you can download the whole report or individual chapters, including: 

• How the Conservation Lands Network was created in Chapter 3: Methodology
• Descriptions and maps of the many types of vegetation in the Bay Area in Chapter 4: Vegetation
• Analysis of watersheds, discussion of riparian buffers, and more in Chapter 5: Riparian Habitat and Fish
• Maps and analysis of American Badgers, Red Tree Voles, Mountain Lions and others in Chapter 6: Mammals
• What can be done along with the San Francisco Bay Joint Venture in Chapter 7: Birds
• A very cool map of ponds and more in Chapter 8: Amphibians, Reptiles and Invertebrates
• Careful analysis of things that get in the way of realizing the Conservation Lands Network in Chapter 9: Conservation Target Viability
• Summary, conclusions, how to use the Conservation Lands Network and more in Chapters 10, 11 and 12

But wait!  There's more.  Do you know what a Boundary Length Modifier is?  What about the difference between a Focal Species and a Target Species?  The Glossary can help.  It's available for download, too.

Have you used the Conservation Lands Network already?  We'd love to hear what you think.  Take a quick and painless survey and tell us your experiences, what you like, and what could be improved.  Click here.

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We launched the Conservation Lands Network earlier this year, a bold plan to protect the Bay Area's last wild places and working lands.  We thank the funders of the Upland Habitat Goals Project - the project that created the Conservation Lands Network - and invite you to join them in supporting regional, science-based conservation planning.  Click here to contribute.

Read more about the Conservation Lands Network on our blog over the past year.