The Maine Natural Areas Program can provide information on rare and unique botanical features which occur on or in the vicinity of a proposed project. Rare and unique botanical features include the habitat of rare, threatened, or endangered plant species and unique or exemplary natural communities. Our review involves examining maps, manual, and computerized records, other sources of information such as scientific articles or published references, and the personal knowledge of staff or cooperating experts. The information provided includes scientific and common name, rarity ranks and state and federal protected status, date of last observation, and a brief description of the habitat. For potentially impacted features, MNAP offers protection recommendations.
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The Maine Natural Areas Program botanists and ecologists are available to provide technical expertise regarding habitat issues, protection recommendations, and conservation site planning. The Maine Natural Areas Program uses GIS extensively to do landscape analysis . The Maine Natural Areas Program can prepare maps outlining general rare features locations, and can provide information digitally for use in clients' GIS systems. Consultation areas are used to highlighted areas with potential habitat concerns in a GIS layer. An area of interest may look like the map displayed below, which indicates areas of potential animal, plant, and natural community concern by displaying differently shaded cells.