Conservation Imaging has undertaken a project to map the existing trail network in Moscow, Idaho and its sister city, Pullman, Washington. The 8-mile Chipman Trail follows Paradise Creek between the two cities and has been the focus of intensive restoration work. Cooperation with The Nature Conservancy of Idaho Conservation Imaging has entered into an agreement with the TNC, Idaho to map the distribution of habitats in the Garden Creek Nature Preserve. This remnant patch of canyon grassland steppe and conifer forest is home to the ESA-listed Spalding's Silene and is threatened by invasions of noxious weeds including spotted knapweed and yellow star thistle. We recently completed phase I mapping by implementing a habitat distribution model .
Future work includes modeling of weed invasibility and modeling the effects of fire on invasibility.
Conservation Imaging moves Conservation Imaging has relocated from the University of Idaho campus to downtown Moscow, Idaho. Our new office is in the historic Moscow Hotel Building, facing Friendship Square, the site of Moscow's weekly farmers market. We view the loss of businesses to new subdivisions as a process that degrades the quality of life in small towns and cities. We are therefore proud to be a player in the maintenance of a vital downtown district. Executive Director, Philip Tanimoto, travels to Chiapas Conservation Imaging is proposing research in the little-visited Sierra Madre of Chiapas, Mexico, where the primary cloud forest is dominated by oaks and cypress.