This dataset includes all CMLC conservation easement projects (including CEs transfered to another agency).. Attributes included are name of project, year of closing, acres of project, location, county of project and Holder (If applicable).

This map shows land protected by Carolina Mountain Land Conservancy. Land protection projects include conservation easements and fee simple acquisitons.

Disclaimer: This map does not depict all land protected by Carolina Mountain Land Conservancy. Some landowners chose not to give permission to depict their conseravtion property boundaries online and CMLC respects these wishes.

This dataset contains all fee simple land protection projects including facilated and conveyed properties. Attributes include name, type, year, acres, location and county and Owner (if not CMLC).

© Greenville County GIS Division, Greenville, South Carolina

Aerial Photography and Imagery, Ortho-Corrected dataset current as of 2008.

This map shows land protected by Carolina Mountain Land Conservancy. Land protection projects include conservation easements and fee simple acquisitons.

Disclaimer: This map does not depict all land protected by Carolina Mountain Land Conservancy. Some landowners chose not to give permission to depict their conseravtion property boundaries online and CMLC respects these wishes.

This dataset contains all fee simple land protection projects including facilated and conveyed properties. Attributes include name, type, year, acres, location and county and Owner (if not CMLC).

This map shows land protected by Carolina Mountain Land Conservancy. Land protection projects include conservation easements and fee simple acquisitons.

Disclaimer: This map does not depict all land protected by Carolina Mountain Land Conservancy. Some landowners chose not to give permission to depict their conseravtion property boundaries online and CMLC respects these wishes.

NOTE: DO NOT DOWNLOAD THE IMAGERY BY USING THE MAP OR DOWNLOAD TOOLS ON THIS ARCGIS HUB ITEM PAGE. IT WILL RESULT IN A PIXELATED ORTHOIMAGE. INSTEAD, DOWNLOAD THE IMAGERY BY TILE OR BY COUNTY MOSAIC (2010 - current year).This service depicts true color imagery for the 21 counties representing the Northern Piedmont and Mountains region of North Carolina. This includes the following counties: Anson, Buncombe, Cabarrus, Cherokee, Clay, Cleveland, Gaston, Graham, Haywood, Henderson, Jackson, Lincoln, Macon, Mecklenburg, Montgomery, Polk, Rutherford, Stanly, Swain, Transylvania, and Union. The imagery has a pixel resolution of 6 inches and was flown in the beginning of 2019. The RMSE is 1.5 ft X and Y. Individual pixel values may have been altered during image processing. Therefore, this service should be used for general reference and viewing. Image analysis requiring examination of individual pixel values is discouraged. To view the latest imagery for any location in the state, customers should use the "Orthoimagery_Latest" image service (https://services.nconemap.gov/secure/rest/services/Imagery/Orthoimagery_Latest/ImageServer).To find specific dates the images were captured use the imagery dates app or download the data.Metadata:Summary metadata for orthoimagery mosaicsSummary metadata for orthoimagery tilesContractor-specific metadata for Cherokee, Clay, Graham, Macon, and Swain countiesContractor-specific metadata for Buncombe, Haywood, Henderson, Jackson, Transylvania countiesContractor-specific metadata for Cleveland, Gaston, Lincoln, Polk, and Rutherford countiesContractor-specific metadata for Anson, Cabarrus, Mecklenburg, Montgomery, Stanly, and Union counties

NOTE: DO NOT DOWNLOAD THE IMAGERY BY USING THE MAP OR DOWNLOAD TOOLS ON THIS ARCGIS HUB ITEM PAGE. IT WILL RESULT IN A PIXELATED ORTHOIMAGE. INSTEAD, DOWNLOAD THE IMAGERY BY TILE OR BY COUNTY MOSAIC (2010 - current year).This service depicts true color imagery for the 21 counties representing the Northern Piedmont and Mountains region of North Carolina. This includes the following counties: Anson, Buncombe, Cabarrus, Cherokee, Clay, Cleveland, Gaston, Graham, Haywood, Henderson, Jackson, Lincoln, Macon, Mecklenburg, Montgomery, Polk, Rutherford, Stanly, Swain, Transylvania, and Union. The imagery has a pixel resolution of 6 inches and was flown in the beginning of 2019. The RMSE is 1.5 ft X and Y. Individual pixel values may have been altered during image processing. Therefore, this service should be used for general reference and viewing. Image analysis requiring examination of individual pixel values is discouraged. To view the latest imagery for any location in the state, customers should use the "Orthoimagery_Latest" image service (https://services.nconemap.gov/secure/rest/services/Imagery/Orthoimagery_Latest/ImageServer).To find specific dates the images were captured use the imagery dates app or download the data.Metadata:Summary metadata for orthoimagery mosaicsSummary metadata for orthoimagery tilesContractor-specific metadata for Cherokee, Clay, Graham, Macon, and Swain countiesContractor-specific metadata for Buncombe, Haywood, Henderson, Jackson, Transylvania countiesContractor-specific metadata for Cleveland, Gaston, Lincoln, Polk, and Rutherford countiesContractor-specific metadata for Anson, Cabarrus, Mecklenburg, Montgomery, Stanly, and Union counties

This dataset includes all CMLC conservation easement projects (including CEs transfered to another agency).. Attributes included are name of project, year of closing, acres of project, location, county of project and Holder (If applicable).

Small-scale farming in this region has historically produced a High Nature Value landscape, having had essential benefits for biodiversity, resilience in the face of climatic events, while offering opportunities for socio-economic wellbeing. Specific risks for biodiversity and the whole landscape are coming from both the intensification and the abandonment of traditional land uses, as well as from the erosion of the social and cultural fabric that has upheld these diverse ecosystems to date. In UNISECO, we looked at 10 farms to better understand how they perform on various aspects, such as social wellbeing, environmental stewardship, and economic viability, including the barriers and drivers of their progress. Amongst these farms is Topa Organic Farm, a mixed family farm located near the UNESCO Heritage Site of Sighisoara; our story map features the result of the SMART sustainability assessment applied to this farm. Small and medium-scale farms such as Topa, which are numerically dominant in Romania, but occupy only an estimated 50% of the agricultural area, deliver wider societal goods apart from food (as revealed in our farm assessments for environmental integrity, for example), but they’ve been strongly eroded and are now endangered by market dynamics, the lack of rural infrastructures and resources (including through properly targeted agricultural subsidies), and reticence to cooperate for a better position in the food chain. If conventional farms were to switch to organic practices, they too would improve their environmental performance. And there is a certain segment amongst the larger farms which in spite of the hindrances have enlisted on a path to more sustainable practices. Our assessment also revealed that all farms rely on subsidies quite heavily - they contribute up to around 80% to the gross farm income for organic farms and 50% of the gross farm income for conventional farms. Part of the solution, as an NGO representative suggests, is that ”We need an integrated approach. We need to develop new rural tourism activities, educational and experiential tourism and improving the farming systems, sustainably.” Environmental and community organisations play a key role in alleviating some of the difficulties local farmers experience, not only in what regards economic viability, but also in terms of access to information, knowledge and skills in entrepreneurship, marketing, accessing and managing funds and grants. NGOs also help to raise public awareness about the benefits smallholder farming brings to society, and to advocate for better, more inclusive policies at local, regional, national and even European level.

North Carolina Effective Flood zones: In 2000, the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) designated North Carolina a Cooperating Technical Partner State, formalizing an agreement between FEMA and the State to modernize flood maps. This partnership resulted in creation of the North Carolina Floodplain Mapping Program (NCFMP). As a CTS, the State assumed primary ownership and responsibility of the Flood Insurance Rate Maps (FIRMs) for all North Carolina communities as part of the National Flood Insurance Program (NFIP). This project includes conducting flood hazard analyses and producing updated, Digital Flood Insurance Rate Maps (DFIRMs). Floodplain management is a process that aims to achieve reduced losses due to flooding. It takes on many forms, but is realized through a series of federal, state, and local programs and regulations, in concert with industry practice, to identify flood risk, implement methods to protect man-made development from flooding, and protect the natural and beneficial functions of floodplains. FIRMs are the primary tool for state and local governments to mitigate areas of flooding. Individual county databases can be downloaded from https://fris.nc.gov Updated Jan 17th, 2025.