A Guide to the Terrestrial Habitat Map

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The objective of this report is to ensure good understanding and widespread use of the Northeast Terrestrial Habitat map. We intend to accomplish this by: 1) creating a printable, web-based guide to the Northeast Terrestrial Habitat map with description of the habitat types, species composition and ecology of each habitat, example photographs, wildlife associations and distribution patterns, and guidance on cross-walking the habitats to other (state) classification schemes, 2) Producing a report on the data and methods used to create the map including internal validation mechanisms, suggested uses of the GIS data and map, and examples of external validation and accuracy check, and 3) developing a training module on using the habitat map with 2-3 hosted Web Ex trainings.

UPDATE (October, 2013)

This project was sucessfully completed in September 2013, the final products are complete and provided below. More information on the project can be found on The Nature Conservancy's Conservation Gateway.

Progress Reports

Project Leader

Name: Mark G. Anderson, Ph.D

Title: Director of Conservation Science, Eastern Division

Organization: The Nature Conservancy, Eastern North America Division

Email: manderson@tnc.org

Address: 99 Bedford Street, 5th Floor, Boston, MA 02111

Phone: 617-532-8354

Fax: 617-532-8400

Other Principal Investigators

Name: Charles Ferree, MS

Title: Landscape Ecologist

Organization: The Nature Conservancy, Eastern North America Division

Email: cferree@tnc.org

Address: 99 Bedford Street, 5th Floor, Boston, MA 02111

Phone: 617-532-8350

Fax: 617-532-8400

Name: Melissa Clark, MS

Title: Spatial Data Manager

Organization: The Nature Conservancy, Eastern North America Division

Email: Melissa_clark@tnc.org

Address: 99 Bedford Street, 5th Floor, Boston, MA 02111

Phone: 617-532-8343

Fax: 617-532-8400