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Open Space advisory board adopts Active River Area for grant criteria, asks county GIS to host data

2989850 · January 16, 2025
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Summary

The Carbon County Open Space Advisory Board voted to replace its priority water-area metric with the Nature Conservancy's Active River Area (ARA) calculation in its grant scoring, and recommended the county GIS host ARA data on the county website to help applicants and reviewers.

At a recent meeting, the Carbon County Open Space Advisory Board voted to replace the priority water-area metric in its grant criteria with the Nature Conservancy's Active River Area (ARA) calculation and recommended that the county GIS host ARA data on the county website so applicants can determine how projects fit the criteria.

Board members said the change is intended to make scoring more accurate and sustainable. Dawn (Natural Lands staff) told the board that attempts to…

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