Project Director:
Mark G. Anderson Ph.D., Director of Conservation Science, The Nature Conservancy, Eastern Region, manderson@tnc.org, 11 Avenue de Lafayette, 5th floor, Boston, MA 02111, 617-542-1908 x 215 phone, 617-482-5866 fax

Other Principal Investigators:
Lesley Sneddon MS., Senior Regional Ecologist East, NatureServe
Susan C. Gawler Ph.D., Regional Vegetation Ecologist East, NatureServe

This project will create a comprehensive wildlife habitat map of the eastern region, including all states from Maine to Virginia, west to New York, Pennsylvania and West Virginia. The map will consist of a spatially comprehensive GIS grid of 30 meter pixels with a legend portraying the Northeastern Terrestrial Habitat Classification System (NETHCS). The map will include a series of map legends that range from coarser-scale with higher accuracy (habitats or groups of habitats) to finer-scale with lower accuracy (NVC associations or alliances). This assumes that not every habitat type will be equally amenable to the mapping procedures described here.