Area Of Interest: Count

<div style='box-sizing: border-box; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: open_sansregular, sans-serif; font-size: 16px;'>The US Fish and Wildlife Service and partners at the Conservation Planning Institute and Ecotrust developed a &quot;social network analysis&quot; to demonstrate the breadth and depth of collaboration among conservation entities occurring in the region. The analysis is not comprehensive and is a snapshot in time (survey completed in 2017); however, it proves useful for depicting, for example, the number of organizations that have mutual area of interests within each watershed.</div><div style='box-sizing: border-box; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: open_sansregular, sans-serif; font-size: 16px;'> </div><div style='box-sizing: border-box; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: open_sansregular, sans-serif; font-size: 16px;'>The Social Network Analysis is an initial step to assess the relationships among key natural resource interests in the region. With this information, we regularly convene these organizations and other entities with conservation and working lands interests in the region to develop conservation strategies to address gaps in data, effort, connectivity, and landscape condition. </div>