What

Greg Low at Applied Conservation manages and facilitates landscape-scale conservation planning, applying and adapting two primary approaches — Conservation Action Planning (CAP) and Landscape Conservation Forecasting.  Many projects involve a collaborative approach with participation by multiple stakeholders.  Additional information on these conservation planning methods can be found at the links below, as well as in the Where and How sections.

Last Great Places

Applied Conservation also analyzes priority areas for conserving natural diversity in the United States, and provides the results of its analysis and supporting information to decision-makers and the public at no cost through “America’s Last Great Places.”

Last Great Places for Birds & Birders

Last Great Places for Birds & Birders provides a powerful search engine to identify high-value birding places by season, bird group, or species—using Important Bird Areas and other proven birding destinations and extensive data complied from eBird checklists.