The County Environmental Management Council, under New York State law, is charged with creating a Natural Resources Inventory (NRI) as an information resource. The purpose is to inform planning for the future in ways that support the County’s natural assets and the benefits they provide. The NRI summarizes and analyzes existing data about the physical, biological, and cultural aspects of the natural environment that shape Columbia County’s landscape. It identifies lands supporting community resilience in a changing climate and resources that are sensitive to changes in land use. The NRI is complete with a series of maps available through this webpage.
2018 Natural Resources Inventory - Columbia County, New York (Screen reader version)
2018 Natural Resources Inventory - Columbia County, New York (.pdf version) (30.48 MB)
To view the datasets used in the NRI in a simple GIS mapping application click on the link below:
Members of the EMC:
Theresa Mayhew, Cornell Cooperative Extension
Ellen Jouret-Epstein, Germantown
Karen Mort, Ghent
Christian Sweningsen, Stuyvesant
Anna Kadish, Taghkanic
Volunteers:
Larry Brody, Gallatin
Kathy Schneider, Stuyvesant
Partner NGOs:
Columbia Land Conservancy
Hudsonia
Hawthorne Valley Farmscape Ecology Program
This Project was funded in part by a grant from the New York State Environmental Protection Fund through the Hudson River Estuary Program of the New York State Department of Environmental Conservation.
For more information about natural resource inventories, visit http://www.dec.ny.gov/lands/100925.html.