The Endangered Species Act of 1973 tends to trigger protections for plant and animal species after they are already threatened by extinction. The Centre County, PA county office has decided to propose a biological reserve system in order to protect lands with diverse species, before they become endangered.

We gain some familiarity with ArcGIS Pro, the software we’ll be using in the class, we are introduced to a basic GIS workflow that we can iterate on for future projects, and we learn about some of the analysis that we might use when performing site selection.