Conservation Management Institute

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Geospatial

The Conservation Management Institute provides assistance to natural resource agencies interested in vegetation and wetland mapping, GIS building and applications, as well as field support and other information gathering activities.

Contact
Scott Klopfer, Executive Director
1900 Kraft Drive, Suite 250
Blacksburg, VA 24061-0534
Phone: 540-231-8825 Fax: 540-231-7019
sklopfer@vt.edu

The following are projects and services utilizing our GIS and remote sensing capabilities.
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Highlighted Projects
Project Name	Start Date
MEASURES (Management-Scale Ecosystem Assessment using Remote Sensing)	July 2009
A Prototype for the Crossing Assessment Decision Support System (CADSS) for the U.S. Forest Service	August 2008
Updates and Trends of the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service National Wetlands Inventory (NWI) Data

Projects
Project Name	Start Date
Natural Resource Condition Assessments for Four Northeast National Park Service Units, BOWA, APCO, PETE, and RICH	October 2008
Making Warm Season Grasses a Cash Crop for Farmers: Implementation, Demonstration, and Evaluation of Planting 7500 acres of Warm Season Grasses in the Virginia Portion of the Chesapeake Bay Watershed	September 2008
West of Hudson Wetland Trend Analysis	September 2008
Menhaden Aerial Survey	July 2008
Custom GIS and Mapping System for Conservation Partners, LLC	May 2008
Development and Evaluation of a Wetland Change Monitoring Process Using Available Remotely Sensed Data for Virginia	April 2008
Michaux’s Sumac Geospatial Modeling and Mapping, ARNG-MTC Fort Pickett	August 2007
Natural Resource Condition Assessments for FOPU, FOFR, FOSU/CHPI, and CASA/FOMA, National Park Service, Southeast Coast Network	August 2007
VAFM-E Fort Pickett Natural Resource Geographic Database	August 2006
Tinker Air Force Base Urban Tree Inventory	May 2006
A Decision Support System for Identifying and Ranking Critical Habitat Parcels On and In the Vicinity of Department of Defense Installations	April 2006
ARNG-MTC Fort Pickett Vegetative Communities Map and Vegetation Classification System	May 2005
Geospatial Projects on Military Lands
GIS and Mapping Support for the New River Valley's Green Infrastructure Initiative