LandScope America by National Geographic & NatureServe

An online tool to help save previous places:

LandScope America—a collaborative project of NatureServe and the National Geographic Society—is a new online resource for the land-protection community and the public. By bringing together maps, data, photos, and stories about America’s natural places and open spaces, our goal is to inform and inspire conservation of our lands and waters.

Audubon provides some interesting info including it's Important Bird Areas series:

The Important Bird Areas (IBA) Program is the focal point for Audubon’s bird conservation work. As a global effort to identify the most important places for bird populations and to focus conservation efforts on those sites, IBAs represent Audubon’s lead conservation initiative because the most severe threats to bird populations are habitat-based.

This should be identified as an Important Bird Area:



LandScope also has some excellent informative sections like Open Space 101:

One of the most auspicious aspects of open space planning is that for the most part it happens locally.Communities with the will and the grassroots involvement to protect land and other resources can do tremendous things. As author Samuel Brody has noted, “Some of the most effective policy tools that can either threaten or protect ecosystems are in the hands of county officials, city councils, town boards, local planning staff, and general public rather than federal or regional agencies.”

If local officials won't provide the leadership - the people need to step up, throw them out, and exercise their rights as citizens to protect their neighborhoods for future generations.