This document discusses precision conservation landscape analysis to save the Chesapeake's great rivers and special places. It aims to incorporate data to target conservation and restoration efforts, identify hotspots, direct outreach and funding, and design best management practices based on the landscape. The goal is to apply the right conservation practices in the most effective locations to maximize positive impacts.

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2. Precision Conservation
Landscape Analysis
“Getting the right practices, in the right places,
at the right scale, at the right time and making sure they are working”
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3. Saving the Chesapeake’s Great Rivers and Special Places

4. Saving the Chesapeake’s Great Rivers and Special Places

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6. • Help incorporate data into
conservation and
restoration targeting
• Identify Hotspots
• Target outreach and
education
• Direct project funding to
where it will have the
greatest impact
• Design BMPs based on the
landscape
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Next Steps