Serving the Bitterroot, Blackfoot, upper Clark Fork, lower Clark Fork, and the Mission-Jocko valleys, Five Valleys Land Trust (FVLT) make it their mission to protect western Montana’s natural legacy – it’s river corridors, wildlife habitat, agricultural lands, and community open spaces – for future generations.
FVLT contracted GCS in the Spring of 2022 to update their Conservation Initiative. The project required the creation of a data layer demonstrating an analysis of the 2010 – 2020 Census population growth and density, including open space access opportunity density to show the most pressure and need on accessible open spaces across their ten-county service area.
Additionally, GCS developed another geospatial layer which represents walk time to these open space access points.
After successfully updating their Conservation Initiative, GCS was once again called upon to enhance the existing Conservation Planning Tool by improving access and by expanding on functionality. GCS supported FVLT by extending the Conservation Planning Tool with configured widgets, custom arcade popups, and visualization enhancements. The effort included data development, python scripting, model fitting, and integrating analyses into existing workflows.
The resulting solution allows FVLT to operationalize and share geospatial intelligence across the organization to better inform project decisions.
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