New York Natural Heritage Program

Our online Conservation Guides are designed to help land managers, decision-makers, planners, scientists, consultants, and the public better understand the rare species and natural communities of. Jan 11, 2021 · The New York Natural Heritage Program was created in 1985 to identify the location and status of New York’s plants, animals, and ecological communities and provide this information to. The New York Natural Heritage Program facilitates the conservation of New York State’s biodiversity by providing comprehensive information and scientific expertise on rare species and natural ecosystems. New York Natural Heritage Program ecologists use a wide array of tools, including field surveys, data analysis, and digital mapping, to assess the distribution and condition of natural communities across. Our mission is to facilitate the conservation of New York’s biodiversity by providing comprehensive information and scientific expertise on rare species and natural ecosystems to resource managers.

Our botanists combine field work with data from partners to assess the conservation status of New York’s plants and determine important locations for plant biodiversity statewide. NY Natural Heritage's statewide inventory efforts revolve around lists of rare species and all types of natural communities known to occur, or to have historically occurred, in the state. Dec 3, 2020 · NYSDEC has the legal authority, under New York State Environmental Conservation Law, to restrict access to such information, and has adopted a policy regarding the release of information. For this project, we conducted a GIS analysis to identify those areas in New York State that are a priority for the conservation of unique, distinctive, and significant components of New York’s biodiversity.