A Vision for Pittsfield’s Conservation Areas: Linking Landscape & Community
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Protected Open Space Conservation
Recreation and Conservation Conservation Areas of Interest Forested Areas (Including Woody Wetlands) Agricultural Open Space
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Site specific soils & suitability for agriculture
Conservation Areas of Interest
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BioMap2 Core Habitat
BioMap2 Critical Natural Landscape
Priority Natural Communities
Community input, gathered through meetings and charrettes, was key in guiding the project’s ultimate recommendations.
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Open Space Protected in Perpetuity
Black ash-red maple-tamarack calcareous seepage swamp Calcareous sloping fen
Major-river floodplain forest
Red oak-sugar maple transition forest Transitional floodplain forest
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Conservation Areas of Interest Subbasins
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Private property, wetland communities, & buffers
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Environmental justice populations & accessibility
Existing and potential areas of habitat connectivity
The City of Pittsfield is in the midst of an economic and cultural revitalization, and has recogneized the need for a conservation area management plan to safeguard their sense of place as a “city in the country.” Commissioned by Pittsfield’s Conservation Commission, A Vision for Pittsfield’s Conservation Areas considers each of the city’s four largest conservation property’s history of use and development, defines existing assets, and identifies gaps in community and ecological needs.
Critical habitat / priority natural communities
Prepared for the City of Pittsfield Conservation Commission The Conway School, Winter 2016 Corrin Meise-Munns & Miranda Feldmann
Integrating community meetings and input, site analysis, GIS-based mapping and assessment, and guidance from the City’s Master Plan, my partner and I developed recommendations towards the holistic management of both specific properties and the City’s conservation areas as a whole.
Impervious surface, land cover, & watershed subbasins
The project team used GIS-based analysis and overlays to aid site assessment and our ability to recognize patterns and trends across a broad scale.
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Medium and High Density Development
Environmental Justice Populations Population by Income
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