The Colorado River is one of the most prominent and important river systems in North America. Ephemeral, seasonal, and persistent riparian habitats are found throughout the basin, which host some of the most important vegetative communities for wildlife species in the predominantly arid landscape. Despite supporting up to 80% of terrestrial animals in the western US and providing critical migration corridors, riparian ecosystems cover less than 5%...

The goal of the Colorado Ownership, Management, and Protection (COMaP) project at the Natural Resource Ecology Lab (NREL) is to build a statewide protected areas map for Colorado. Knowing the location and pattern of various protected areas is a key piece of information to inform management of many natural resources in Colorado. It was quite challenging to synthesize data from all the various Federal, State and local agencies. Land ownership and management...

The Ngorongoro Conservation Area Authority (NCAA) is charged with balancing the needs of Maasai inhabitants and their livestock, as well as the wildlife for which Ngorongoro Conservation area (NCA) is renowned, and the tourism industry that the wildlife supports. Thus, management of NCA represents a unique and important experiment in balancing multiple uses that has continued for more than 40 years.