Version by version, as the Blueprint has evolved in response to your feedback, more and more people have been using it to inform their work. Blueprint 2.1 has been used in a variety of ways, with many more examples in progress. The U.S. Forest Service in South Carolina used Blueprint 2.1 to inform the Land Ownership [...]
**The August web forum has been cancelled. Due to some technical difficulties and delays with contracting, the updates to the Simple Viewer are unlikely to be ready by August 18th. This web forum has been tentatively rescheduled for the October Third Thursday Web Forum slot, 10/20 at 10 am.** August 18th, 2016: “Improvements to the Simple Viewer: What’s [...]
Great news everyone - Blueprint 2.1 is now officially released! Version 2.1 is a major improvement, particularly for the freshwater and marine ecosystems. Wasn't it approved last month? Why is it being "officially" released now? Excellent questions. The biggest reason is that we've worked especially hard to improve the overall Blueprint documentation. Here are just [...]
We're getting very close to the official release of Blueprint 2.1. Last month, the Steering Committee approved Blueprint 2.1 conditional on: 1) Adding back in marine corridors, and 2) A simplified way to display the Blueprint on slides. This morning, they agreed that those issues are now resolved. Marine corridors - The marine corridor layer [...]
June 16th, 2016: “The FUTURES model: An open-source tool for understanding where cities will grow in the future and how this will impact conservation efforts" with Derek Van Berkel, NC State University Center for Geospatial Analysis Increasing global population is accelerating urbanization and rapidly transforming natural systems to impervious built environments. Emerging development challenges include: where (and [...]
May 19th, 2016: “Draft Blueprint 2.1 review and recommendations for the future” with Rua Mordecai, South Atlantic LCC Rua will provide an overview of the development of the next version of the Blueprint. He will highlight the indicator updates incorporated in Blueprint 2.1 and present a draft of Blueprint 2.1 for review. You'll have a chance to provide [...]
I'm really excited about the improvements in this next version of the Blueprint. Even though we're still in the middle of running models, there are a few things that already seem clear. Much better approach for urban open space: In the upland hardwood ecosystem, Blueprint 2.0 was only really capturing a few very large parks near [...]