Remote Monitoring Technologies for Colorado Land Trusts

For nearly two decades, The Nature Conservancy's California chapter has explored the use of remote sensing to meet annual property monitoring requirements. This paper provides key information learned in the exploration of remote property monitoring.

TNC-CA worked with Nancy Thomas of Geospatial Innovation Facility at University of California Berkeley to survey land trusts using remote monitoring to gauge interest and ideal scenarios and published the results.

Before developing a remote monitoring program, a land trust needs to weigh the benefits and the drawbacks of this type of stewardship. This pointer offers considerations to help with that analysis.

It’s a brave new world of stewardship technology, but it can be daunting to figure out whether remote monitoring is right for your land trust and where to start. The Land Trust Alliance created this toolkit to provide you with the information you and your team need to make the right decisions.

Join Kate Losey, Land Trust Alliance, Kaytee Currie-Huggard, The Upper Valley Land Trust and Will Donahoo, New Mexico Land Conservancy, as they lay out the return on investment from a variety of methods used by land trusts, policies and procedures used to meet Land Trust Standards and Practices.

Monitoring from the air can be a great solution for land trusts who are struggling with COVID restrictions or who need to monitor large numbers of properties. Learn how to get a program started and get tips for successful remote monitoring programs.

A sample monitoring report, including annual monitoring objectives, general information, monitoring checklist, map, photos, verification and confirmation by both landowner and monitor from the accredited California Rangeland Trust.

This is a conservation transaction from the accredited Great Land Trust.