Land Use

The Alliance for Land and Water Decision Support

The Alliance/Assistance goals are to integrate the knowledge generated at Michigan State University to assist at finding facts, background, decisions, events, and experts related to land and water issues. This is a growing concept so please forward any suggestions and/or feedback that you may have, or if you would like to personally contribute information or expertise.

Victor Institute

The Victor Institute was created to foster the wise and responsible use, development, and redevelopment of Michigan’s land resources.

Land Use Assistance @ MSU

This site represents a multi-departmental effort to promote land use information dissemination for informed land use decision making.

Interactive Distributed Conservation Planning - 
(adobe pdf file)

The Interactive Distributive Conservation Planning (IDCP) system demonstrates the potential for coupling information on federal, state, and local policies and activities into the system. A wide array of digital data and the ability of on-line analysis that utilized this integrated data was demonstrated. Direct development of implementation plans evolved from the process. Evaluation of potential impacts and monitoring for the presence of practices particularly on high-risk areas was shown.

Land Cover Change Analysis

Farm Bureau Project-Kent County