1. Laurentian GIS Collaborative Working with Municipalities in the Arrowhead Region Kara Kent, GIS Specialist

2. 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

3. 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

4. Laurentian Vision Partnership Pits & Piles to Lakes & Landscapes

5. Laurentian Vision Partnership

6. Laurentian GIS Collaborative Use GIS to make decisions Documentation Funding from USGS and IRR

7. Laurentian GIS Collaborative Pilot Communities: Babbitt, Biwabik, Chisholm, Eveleth, Keewatin, Mountain Iron, and Nashwauk Committee: Local decision makers and GIS professionals

8. Laurentian GIS Collaborative GIS Assessment Web Application Provide access to GIS data using the internet

9. Laurentian GIS Collaborative

11. North Shore GIS Collaborative -GIS Assessment -Committee -Access to GIS data

12. North Shore GIS Collaborative

13. Next Steps? Arrowhead Regional GIS Collaborative -Include unique land use areas -All other regional locations Questions: kkent@ardc.org