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Although there has been little news about this, a new, national conservation
easement database (NCED) is set to go live within the next few months.  This
monumental enterprise has taken three years to create and is the work of
multiple organizations, mainly the Conservation Biology Institute, Defenders
of Wildlife, the Trust for Public Lands, NatureServe and Ducks Unlimited.
The project is also supported by the Land Trust Alliance.  Once the database
is operational, it will be accessible from a number of websites.  To explain
how NCED will work and the benefits it will provide to the land conservation
community, I have written an article published in the Duke School of Law
Journal of Law & Contemporary Problems, entitled "The Invisible Forest:
Conservation Easement Databases and the End of the Clandestine Conservation

of Natural Lands
<http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/cf_dev/AbsByAuth.cfm?per_id=1488037> ."  This
article is downloadable for free by clicking on the previous link.  As the
article discusses numerous other websites with databases that allow creation
of custom datasets (including spatial data), maps (with metadata layers),
project management tools, and shared data (to name but a few features) I
have created links for these sites at the following web page: "Conservation
Mapping. <http://www.landprotect.com/Conservation_Mapping.html> "

 

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drr1289