ESRI Conservation Program: conservation geography, activism and multicultural social change

Welcome to the ESRI Conservation Program Archives

This is the ECP archive site, operated from 1995 -2019. It now serves as the online historical archive for the first 30 years of the Esri Conservation Program, 1989 - 2019.

Our current Esri Conservation Program site is on GEONET, the global GIS community. (content and material from this archive is serving as source for several new historical & documentation projects going on at GEONET.)

The current Society for Conservation GIS site is at www.scgis.org
(plans are underway for an official SCGIS presence on Geonet, the global GIS community)

The Esri GIS Grants for Conservation can be applied for HERE
(this webform: https://go.esri.com/ECP_Application, will give full access to the grant offerings of the Esri Conservation Program)

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New Calif Native Plant Society/Calif Dept Fish & Wildlife 2018 Map/App Page
Vegetation Explorer App, Tutorials, Links to data, ECP Vegetation Cartography Project

New: Esri's "Science of Where" : after years providing powerful tools for scientists, Esri is now working more deeply in GIS as an important science in it's own right.

New: Official SCGIS International Facebook Page

New Calif Native Plant Society/Calif Dept Fish & Wildlife/National Park Service Ecological map, part of the ECP National Vegetation Cartography Project (more maps below) (Note as of Jun 2019, Google Chrome is having issues displaying webmaps, however firefox, explorer, safari and edge all work fine)

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Ecol Society America talk on a national ecological map overlay

Calif Naturalists talk on how maps & images change the world
Calif Naturalists Blog Post on GIS & Natural History

3d European SCGIS Conference Page

SCGIS International Chapter Guide Public Draft Released

"Conservation Tech" blog/group on Geonet!

2016 Proceedings now LIVE! Now adding Training Course Proceedings PDFs and Map Gallery PDF's

2015 Proceedings now LIVE! Now adding Training Course Proceedings PDFs and Map Gallery PDF's

Now adding Scholar Profiles and abstracts from 2014 conference

ECP ArcGIS online site: (groups, shared data, ecological map services)

2016 Developer Summit Proceedings just released

New Drone2Map blog series

ECP National Vegetation Cartography Project: USFS Landfire application example:

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Scgis Scholar Web GIS Training: Map Gallery

Scgis Scholar Profiles:(2015) . 2016

Scgis Proceedings (now being posted for all prior conferences)

Conservation Planning textbook: The Craighead Center For Landscape Conservation is a national scientific center using GIS to advance conservation theory and make it more available and applicable to practicioners and land planners worldwide. "Conservation Planning" was co-edited by Dr. Lance Craighead and Charles Convis and published by esri press.

Conservation Mapping Contest

ArcGis for NGO's! ESRI's NGO/NPO now offers nonprofits 1-year subscriptions to ArcGis for an annual admin fee. These are download only with no phone tech support but easy to order.