Laurentian GIS Collaborative

Working with Municipalities in the Arrowhead Region

Kara Kent, GIS Specialist

Laurentian Vision Partnership

-Works with mining, government, business and community interests on the Mesabi Iron Range

-Mining process can create land forms to accommodate the residents, the environment, and the economy

Laurentian Vision Partnership

-Preserving lands necessary to sustain current and future mining

-Promoting landscape options for post mining uses

-Identifying and discussing new development opportunities

-Providing the tools to achieve these goals

Laurentian Vision Partnership

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Laurentian Vision Partnership

Laurentian GIS Collaborative

• Use GIS to make decisions

• Documentation

• Funding from USGS and IRR

Laurentian GIS Collaborative

• Pilot Communities: Babbitt, Biwabik, Chisholm, Eveleth, Keewatin, Mountain Iron, and Nashwauk

• Committee: Local decision makers and GIS professionals

Laurentian GIS Collaborative

• GIS Assessment

• Web Application

• Provide access to GIS data using the internet

Laurentian GIS Collaborative

Laurentian GIS Collaborative

North Shore GIS Collaborative

- GIS Assessment

- Committee

- Access to GIS data

North Shore GIS Collaborative

Next Steps?

Arrowhead Regional GIS Collaborative

- Include unique land use areas

- All other regional locations

Questions: kkent@ardc.org