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Project Goal

Since 1991, Round River has worked with native peoples, environmental organizations and government agencies. We have gathered ecological information and engaged in conservation planning in the Blue Range of Arizona, the coast of British Columbia, the San Juan Mountains of Colorado, the tropical forests of Belize, the Yaak Valley of Montana, the canyon country of Utah, and the shrub lands of Namibia in southwest Africa.

Today our conservation efforts in North America are focused in the temperate rainforests of British Columbia and Alaska, the territory of the Taku River Tlingit First Nation and the Northern Rocky Mountains of British Columbia. As a result of our growing commitment to the wildlands of British Columbia, in 2002, an independent sister organization, Round River Canada was formed. The staff of Round River Canada focuses their efforts on seeking strategic opportunities to advance protection of wild places and the viability of local communities by facilitating collaborative planning or resource management initiatives that are informed by conservation biology, and through community development initiatives www.roundrivercanada.org.

In Africa, our work recently has expanded to the deserts of northwestern Namibia to assist the efforts of the Save the Rhino Trust (www.rhino-trust.org.na). In South America, we have initiated studies with the Fundacion Cordillera Tropical (www.cordilleratropical.org) in the cloud forests of southern Ecuador. For each of these project areas we also strive to formulate conservation biology based land designs, while fostering innovative implementation approaches.

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ArcGIS 9.0, ArcInfo workstation

Development Team Biography

Rick Tingey, GIS analyst.
Rick holds a BS degree from the University of Utah in Geography. Rick is a full time GIS analyst for Round River and has provided GIS support for all Round River programs since 1999. Rick has also completed GIS projects for various other organizations, including the BC Coast Information Team, The Nature Conservancy, the Transboundary Watershed Alliance, Wild Utah Project, the Wildlands project, and Greenpeace, among others.

Tom Lind, GIS analyst.
Tom received his BS in mathematics at St. Johns University and is working on a MA in geography at the University of Utah. Tom has worked on the Taku River Tlingit Conservation Area Design, the Muskwa-Kechika Conservation Area Design, and the Heart of the West Conservation Plan for the Wild Utah Project.