Planning future landscape

Identifying sites with urgent development threat from statewide planning data.

In an innovative partnership between Archbold conservation scientists and staff of the Central Florida Regional Planning Council, municipal planning data were collated from over 80% of municipal and county governments around the state to identify where in the Florida Wildlife Corridor is likely to be developed in the near future, without conservation. The data are publicly available, shared with conservation partners to prioritize action, and in research use to validate forecasts of future development.