Remote Property Monitoring at The Nature Conservancy in California
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The California chapter of The Nature Conservancy Stewardship team has been advancing remote monitoring techniques, strategies and showing cost and time savings for land trusts. In the summer of 2020, Ethan Inlander and Katie Andrews et. Al. published their findings of cost and time savings within their department and the applications remote technology could be employed to address conservation issues.
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