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Committee advances plan to use GIS co-occurrence mapping for land-prioritization
Summary
The Conservation Land Review Committee agreed to compare prior local mapping and recent regional work, tasking Nancy Walser and Dylan Alden to create a comparison table and consider hiring a consultant to compile and check GIS data layers for prioritizing conservation in Tamworth and Sandwich.
Committee members updated their goal to use GIS co-occurrence mapping to identify lands most critical for protection of natural resources and ecological services and to develop a prioritization system for Sandwich and Tamworth. "Use GIS mapping to identify lands most critical for protection of natural resources & ecological services*," the minutes state.
Members emphasized keeping the process simple and local. David Little flagged quality issues in several data layers, noting that some conserved-land parcel layers are missing parcels and that floodplain maps are inaccurate; he said he would re-contact a UNH collaborator working on updating conservation layers. The committee agreed there are two major options: adopt recent work by USVLT or the Lakes Region Conservation Plan, update Tamworth27s 2000s effort, or combine approaches. Nancy Walser and Dylan Alden will create a comparison table of co-occurrence layers and may recommend hiring a consultant to compile and validate data.
