Conservation Analysis Workbench
Explore the community's landscape, identify assets and challenges, and propose a practical response. Build your map here, then explain which planning tools would help the community use and protect its resources.
Due October 14 at the start of class
Requirements and gradingUse course data
Data that still need confirmation
Assessment years, construction years, public-water wells and agricultural/forestal district boundaries need local confirmation. FEMA polygon layers are downloaded county snapshots with their package dates shown. Check current effective panels and later revisions before regulatory decisions. Blank areas do not prove that a resource is absent.
Conservation analysis
Rural Planning and Economic Development
Add your source and date note before submission.
Save your progress here. Final assignments still go to Canvas.
Explain what the landscape means for the community
Use your map to explain what the community can build on, what it needs to work around, and what you recommend. These are working notes, not an additional questionnaire or grading checklist.
Assets and challenges
The same feature can offer an opportunity and create a challenge. Connect your observations to places on the map and to the community's needs.
What do you propose?
Address the relevant zoning or subdivision-code implications asked for in Canvas. A code change is not automatically the right answer. Explain what is suitable for this community and what would be needed to act.
Prepare your submission
Export a readable PDF map or map set with a legend, north arrow, actual scale, labels, sources and dates, and limitations. Add your concise explanation and signed honor statement. Include an editable project file when useful.
The supplied slope layer is already classified in percent: 15% to below 20%, 20% to below 25%, and 25% or above. Sources and dates are added to your map when you load course data. Check those notes before exporting; missing coverage does not mean a resource is absent.
Use these notes for the concise explanation accompanying your map. Submit your finished work in Canvas.
Save your progress here. Final assignments still go to Canvas.
Honor pledge and authorship
I pledge that I have neither given nor received help on this examination (quiz, assignment, etc.)
Follow the collaboration and AI rules in the syllabus. Include your signed pledge with the final individual submission.
Save your progress here. Final assignments still go to Canvas.