COMaP - Colorado Ownership Management and Protection

COMaP Colorado Ownership Management and Protection ~ Mapping the Status and Trends of Colorado's Protected Places ~
Home Open Space Inventory Google Earth KML Files Current COMaP Status Project Overview Technical Documents PDF Maps, Summary Tables and NDIS Links Collaborators Contact Info Links Last updated on September 30, 2008	The goal of the Colorado Ownership, Management, and Protection (COMaP) project at the Natural Resource Ecology Lab (NREL) and the Human Dimensions of Natural Resources Department is to build a statewide protected areas map for Colorado. This project is being undertaken with funding and technical assistance from Great Outdoors Colorado (GOCO). The fundamental premise of COMaP is that the landscape context (ownership and management) is important to natural resource management issues. Knowing the location and pattern of various protected areas is a key piece of information to inform management of many natural resources in Colorado. Local agencies, particularly those who have invested in building a GIS-based parcel dataset, often have up-to-date maps of protected areas. However, projects often require information at scales beyond local areas and these efforts must rely on datasets that are incomplete and out of date. Therefore, COMaP fills the need for a spatial database that provides comprehensive, current information about various levels of protection, such as county and city parks and open spaces, as well as Federal and State lands in Colorado.