The Land Boundary Information System (LABINS) began in 1984 as a means for distributing survey-related data that is maintained and managed by federal and state agencies to the general surveying community. Today LABINS is available over the Internet and has been greatly enhanced by mapping components and the addition of digital images of many of the original documents that support the textual data bases. Visit the web site.

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The goal of the Apalachicola River and Basin Ecological Characterization Project's (ARBEC) Apalachicola Region Resources On the Web (ARROW) web site is to develop a online resource that will provide information, data, and a decision support tool for decision makers and citizens within the Apalachicola River basin in Florida. Visit the web site.

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FNAI has developed and maintains an extensive spatial database of ecological features in Florida. The program maintains information on the status, ecology, and distribution of 983 rare plants and animals, and 82 natural community types and has more than 28,000 specific location records in its GIS.

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FREAC is working with FFWCC to standardize the graphic presentation of information promoting nature-based recreation on Florida's Wildlife Management Areas. Projects include brochures, maps, guides and interpretive signage.

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FNAI maintains a centralized, GIS-based collection of boundaries and other information for lands managed for conservation by federal, state and local governments, and private organizations. The program has more than 1500 individual managed areas in its database. FNAI also maintains GIS information for the state's Florida Forever environmental land acquisition program. Both the Conservation Lands and Environmental Land Acquisition Project datasets are available as free downloads from the FNAI web site.

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FNAI provides the primary scientific and technical support for the state's Florida Forever environmental land acquisition program. FNAI scientists review all proposals submitted to the Florida Forever program and conduct field inspections of all projects on the Florida Forever list; since 1981 FNAI has conducted hundreds of field inspections all across the state. FNAI scientists review state land management plans and provide expert advice regarding the management of the state's natural lands.

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FNAI has developed and maintains a statewide conservation needs assessment to help inform the priorities of the state's environmental land acquisition program, Florida Forever. The needs assessment provides baselines for 16 important conservation measures, identifies the most important places to protect these resources, and provides a tool to evaluate and measure the success of environmental land acquisition efforts. FNAI employs an iterative site selection model to select a portfolio of sites that most efficiently meet the goals of the Florida Forever program.

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FNAI is developing digital natural community maps for some 1.3 million acres managed by the Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission. The minimum mapping unit for this project is 0.5 acres, and lands are classified according to FNAI's Guide to the Natural Communities of Florida, which identifies 82 different natural community types in Florida. FNAI ground-truths each natural community polygon and collects extensive information on the structure, condition, and composition at ground-truthed points. This project which began FY 2002-2003 is scheduled to run until June 2005. FNAI is conducting a similar project for the Southwest Florida Water Management District on 30,000 acres during FY 2003-2004.

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FNAI conducts many types of ecological inventories for federal, state, and local government agencies on a regular basis. Inventories may be general in nature or focus on a particular species, group of species, or habitat type.

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FNAI is developing and will maintain a spatial database of the distribution of upland invasive plants on Florida's conservation lands. Invasive plants pose a severe threat to Florida's natural systems. Information derived from this project will be used by land managers and state policy makers to inform critical decisions related to the control of invasive species.

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The Public Lands Research Program compiles the PLI under contract with the Department of Environmental Protection to assist in its compliance with a statutory requirement to annually produce an inventory of all publicly owned lands in Florida. The PLI is produced by utilizing the ad valorem tax roll data bases submitted annually to the State Department of Revenue by the sixty-seven respective counties of Florida. The PLI acts as an umbrella for several ongoing and concurrent projects, all of which relate to the Public Lands Inventory. Visit the web site.

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The Public Lands Research Program has developed a procedure to be utilized in the determination of parcel sizes for those publicly owned lands for which there appears to be no discernable size parameters or attributes.

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This project involves detailed mapping of all Florida's surface water drainage basins.

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Acquisition, distribution and documentation of high resolution photography for Florida.

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An assessment of digital land parcels in Florida and how to make them available to state agencies

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This project's web site focuses on unique environmental locations in Florida, providing students everywhere an opportunity to experience these places. Teams of teachers and students were trained at chosen field sites in field work, data collection, and GPS and GIS technology. Field sites are displayed with topo maps, aerial photographs, digital photography, and GPS data, along with teacher-written lessons and student projects. Visit the web site.

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Each year, the National Geographic Society emphasizes stewardship of the planet through these programs, and the Florida Geographic Alliance (located at FSU) produces a curriculum guide and poster in support of this project.

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Ecological evaluations to the Acquisition and Restoration Council to help inform the process of considering lands for purchase under the Florida Forever Program.

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Each year the District selects 20,000 to 30,000 acres of land within their holdings for rare plant and animal surveys. This project employs a variety of animal survey techniques including drift fence/funnel traps, bucket traps, Sherman live traps, and gopher tortoise burrow camera surveys.

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This project includes rare plant and animal surveys, exotic species surveys, and management plan development for several Naval facilities in Florida.

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This project, funded by the National Interagency Fire Center, will convert our award-winning CD-ROM on wildland fire into a DVD, and two new interactive activities and revise the five existing activities. These field-tested instructional materials are designed for secondary students and will be distributed via teacher workshops throughout the country. <

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This project builds on our highly successful wildland fire CD-ROM by creating a web-site that focuses attention on the role of wildland fire in the sage-steppe ecosystem. These field-tested instructional materials are designed for secondary students.

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This nationwide database links population characteristics from the US Census and library use data from the National Center for Educational Statistics to a digital base map of 16,000 public libraries, and is accessible over the Internet. Visit the web site.

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FREAC has developed a website with educational units related to geology and environmental issues. Each unit contains background material, maps, and student activities. Visit the web site.

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FREAC has assisted with the design and development of the overall Florida Memory Project web site for many years. From database development to graphic design, FREAC provides support for Department of State staff. Visit the web site.

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