Laurentian GIS Collaborative Working with Municipalities in the Arrowhead Region Kara Kent, GIS Specialist
Laurentian Vision Partnership - Works with mining, government, business and community interests on the Mesabi Iron Range -Mining process can create land forms to accommodate the residents, the environment, and the economy
Laurentian Vision Partnership -Preserving lands necessary to sustain current and future mining -Promoting landscape options for post mining uses -Identifying and discussing new development opportunities -Providing the tools to achieve these goals
Laurentian Vision Partnership Pits & Piles to Lakes & Landscapes
Laurentian Vision Partnership
Laurentian GIS Collaborative Use GIS to make decisions Documentation Funding from USGS and IRR
Laurentian GIS Collaborative Pilot Communities: Babbitt, Biwabik, Chisholm, Eveleth, Keewatin, Mountain Iron, and Nashwauk Committee: Local decision makers and GIS professionals
Laurentian GIS Collaborative GIS Assessment Web Application Provide access to GIS data using the internet
Laurentian GIS Collaborative
North Shore GIS Collaborative -GIS Assessment -Committee -Access to GIS data
North Shore GIS Collaborative
Next Steps? Arrowhead Regional GIS Collaborative -Include unique land use areas -All other regional locations Questions: