Identifying Key Watershed Stewards in the American West
The American Forest Foundation (AFF) approached SIG to support their work on ensuring forests on private lands in the American West continue to provide clean water, even in the face of increasing wildfire activity. In particular, they wanted to find out the role played by family forest owners in ensuring watershed health.
Helping American Forests Help Underserved Landowners
Spatial Informatics Group is partnering with American Forests to help them make resilient reforestation more affordable and accessible for underserved landowners.
Carbon Credits with the White Mountain Apache Tribe
SIG serves as the forest carbon technical advisor to the White Mountain Apache Tribe (WMAT) for the Tribe’s Improved Forest Management California carbon projects.
Mapping the Off-Site Benefits from Protected Areas Ecosystem Services
Ecosystem services include natural resources like fresh water and intangible benefits like scenic views and cultural significance. In analyzing Ontario’s provincial parks system, SIG examined two methodologies for quantifying and assessing these services to develop a better framework for evaluation
Improving Nepal’s Forest Change Estimation
SIG’s Environmental Mapping team partnered with SilvaCarbon to bring a suite of user-friendly tools to the Nepalese Forest Research and Training Center in Nepal.
Washington Rainforest Renewal Project
The Nature Conservancy hired Spatial Informatics Group to develop a carbon credit program on coastal rainforest on Washington State’s Olympic Peninsula. The Washington Rainforest Renewal Project seeks to leverage carbon financing to fund restoration efforts aimed at mimicking the characteristics of late-successional forests.