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Celebrating and Tracking Private Lands Conservation

Private working lands provide a significant amount of wildlife habitat. This tool helps individuals and organizations summarize and celebrate conservation efforts on those working lands. Note that this tool is not a comprehensive resource for all habitat conservation on private lands – for instance, many private landowners do excellent habitat improvements on their own.

Miles of Fence Removed or Improved
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Acres Active in Grassland CRP
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Acres Under Conservation Easement
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Disclaimer: This tool is for informational purposes only. While efforts have been made to ensure accuracy, data limitations exist, including gaps in easements and habitat projects. Future updates will continue to refine and expand the tool with additional regions and data layers.

Image Photo © Jeremy Roberts / Conservation Media
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Conservation Tracker Overview

The Conservation Tracker app was developed to highlight and share ongoing conservation efforts through the Migratory Big Game Initiative. This application aggregates key data to identify successes and promote transparency in conservation outcomes. All data is stored in a secure database at the University of Wyoming, and only summarized and aggregated information is displayed to ensure both usefulness and privacy.

Through intuitive visualizations and regular updates, users can monitor trends, celebrate collective achievements, and collaborate to address new challenges in areas of migratory big movement projects. By bringing together stakeholders, the app fosters a shared commitment to wildlife conservation and habitat connectivity.

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Documentation

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Conservation Agreements

This page describes conservation easements and leasing agreements represented in the Conservation Tracker.

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Habitat and Fence Projects

This page describes habitat restoration and fence projects represented in the Conservation Tracker.

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Landowner Confidentilaity

This page explains how landowner confidentiality is protected within the Conservation Tracker

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Frequently Asked
Questions

Datasets are updated on an annual basis when new information is available to us. This can vary from state to state.

This app focuses on areas within the Migratory Big Game Initiative designation(Wyoming, Coloardo, Utah, Idaho, Montana). Although, data availabliity may vary state to state.

No, raw data cannot be downloaded through this application. This application is meant for visualizaiton and summariziation. Although, any charts visualized in the app can be downloaded.

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Analysis -
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This section covers the number of landowners involved in conservation work on parcels > 5 acres.
Land Management
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This section covers the acres and proportion of what agency is managing the public land in the given polygon. This is based on BLM's Surface Management Agency dataset.

Private Lands > 5 acres
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Private lands data is based on available parcel information. However, not all counties provide parcel data, so coverage may vary by location.

Acres: Unknown

Percent: Unknown

# of Private Landowners: Unknown

# of Parcels: Unknown

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This section covers the acres of private land conserved where parcels > 5 acres.
Conservation Easements
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Data from National Conservation easement database and more detailed Land Trust information. Note that the area of some easements can expand over time. To simplify for visualization, we only use the earliest year of each easement. Additionally, data is filtered to only private lands > 5 acres.

Owners Under Easement: Unknown

Acres: Unknown

Percent: Unknown


CRP
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This chart summarizes Grassland Conservation Reserve Program (GCRP) enrollments supporting grassland conservation that fall on private lands > 5 acres.

Owners Under Grassland CRP: Unknown

Acres: Unknown

Percent: Unknown


EQIP
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This chart summarizes Environmental Quality Incentives Program (EQIP) practices by type and implementation status on private lands > 5 acres. Click a bar to open the associated practice guide in a new tab.

Total # of Contracts: Unknown

WWNRT Projects
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This chart summarizes Wyoming Wildlife and Natural Resource Trust (WWNRT) on private lands > 5 acres.

Conservation Easements & CRP
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Data from National Conservation easement database and more detailed Land Trust information combined with the Grassland Conservation Reserve Program. Note that the area of some easements can expand over time. To simplify for visualization, we only use the earliest year of each easement. Additionally, data is filtered to only private lands > 5 acres.
10-Year Mean Annual Change

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Development
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The chart shows cumulative acreage of developed land from 1986 to 2024 on private lands greater than 5 acres, based on the NLCD development layer. Developed cells (NLCD classes 22–24) are classified as impervious surface, while any cell within 250 meters of a core cell is classified as indirect loss. Acreage is shown as a rolling sum to illustrate change over time.
10-Year Average Annual Change

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Summary Layers
Counties
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Counties within the MBGI
% private lands under easement & GCRP
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SO3362 Priority Areas
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USDA’s Migratory Big Game Initiative priority areas
State NRCS MBGI Priorities
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State NRCS MBGI Prioritiy areas
Grassland CRP GYE Zone
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Grassland CRP Greater Yellowstone Ecosystem Zone
Custom Areas

Drop a zipped shapefile here to summarize conservation in a custom boundary

Map Layers
Grassland CRP
Grassland CRP Priority Zones
Conservation easements
EQIP projects
Sagebrush Conservation Design
Surface Land Management
Land Value
Wildlife Migrations
Elk
Mule Deer
Pronghorn
Base Maps