Transcript • What are Lands with Wilderness Characteristics (LWCs)? • How did we map LWCs? • How did GIS mapping and analysis help mapping LWCs? •

• What are Lands with Wilderness
Characteristics (LWCs)?
• How did we map LWCs?
• How did GIS mapping and
analysis help mapping LWCs?
• How do you protect LWCs?
• Lessons Learned
Photo: Munger Creek, Colorado, by Soren Jespersen
• LWCs may “contain ecological, geological,
or other features of scientific, educational,
scenic, or historical value.”
• Rocky Mountain Wild’s Assessment of
Biological Impact (ABI) Screen Tool
identifies supplemental values.
• Hundreds of datasets with ranges, habitat
areas, occurrences, and important
landscapes for over a thousand species.
• Output is a spreadsheet report
• Maps help folks writing reports and
comments
Soren Jespersen of The Wilderness Society, left, works with Will
Roush of Wilderness Workshop to inventory lands for wilderness
characteristics.