What is LandServer?

LandServer is a web-based tool that provides farmers and woodland owners with a quick and easy natural resource assessment, an evaluation of their property's potential to receive payments for implementing conservation actions, and information on how to get started. Your report is only accessed with your secure User ID and password.

LandServer produces reports by analyzing a robust database of geographic, ecological, physical, and other data sets. Here are a few of the data sets used to estimate landowner eligibility for conservation funding:

Forest Conservation

Land use
Agricultural zoning
Distance from water bodies
Floodplains
National Wetlands Inventory
Maryland Natural Heritage Sensitive Species Project Review Areas
Subwatersheds
Spring discharge points
Slope
K value
Streams
Chesapeake Bay Program Ecological Network
Soils
Green Infrastructure
Forest Legacy area
303(d) listed streams
Forest Interior Dwelling Species habitat

Carbon

Area of different land uses
Chesapeake Bay Program Forest Economics model
Chesapeake Bay Program Vulnerability to Development model

Habitat /Biodiversity

Eastern Brook Trout Joint Venture priority watersheds
Trout Unlimited Conservation Success Index
Occupied trout streams
Maryland Targeted Ecological Areas
Maryland Potential for Biodiversity-based Wetland Restoration analysis
Delaware Natural Heritage data
Mature forest
Species ranges

Water quality

State nutrient trading basins
Nutrient loading hotspots
Chesapeake Fund priority watersheds

Wetlands

Maryland wetland restoration and protection potential analyses
Hydric soils
Land use
Floodplains
Maryland Wetlands of Special State Concern

Conservation Programs

Land use
Chesapeake Bay Program Ecological Network
Erodible soils
Maryland Wetland Restoration Potential analysis
Distance from water bodies
Impaired streams

My Ecosystem Services

Chesapeake Bay Program Water Quality Protection model
Land use
Erodible soils
Slope
Chesapeake Bay Program Ecological Network
Air quality non-attainment areas
Chesapeake Bay Program Forest Economics model
Chesapeake Bay Program Prime Farmland model
Source water watersheds

Currently available to residents in Maryland, and Delaware, LandServer will be available in Virginia, Pennsylvania, New York, and West Virginia soon.

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