WCRC

Geospatial Interns, Travis Dear '24 and Heather Landis '24, conducted a land parcel prioritization research project for the French Creek Valley Conservancy. Leveraging map overlay approaches, they combined a number of geographic criteria including total acreage, proximity to water, existing FCVC land, and public land, presence of wetlands and/or hydric soils, amount of "core" forest and canopy cover, and riparian frontage to "score" 63,393 land parcels based on desirability for future acquisition.