South Carolina Conservation Bank conservation priority mapping

Abstract

The South Carolina Conservation Bank has been tasked with developing statewide conservation priority maps that will be submitted to the South Carolina General Assembly. In June of 2019, the first statewide conservation priority maps were produced and updated in May 2022. This document outlines the development of the May 2022 statewide conservation priority map. Included in this document are maps and statistics for current conservation conditions in South Carolina, the final statewide conservation priority map, and each of the 6 sub-maps. Finally, each data layer used is documented with how it was ranked for the sub-map.