Prolific World

Increasingly, natural resource management agencies are taking a systems and landscape approach to addressing natural resource issues, recognizing the interdependence of not only species, habitats, and other natural resources, but also the agencies charged with managing them. This means bringing together many agencies, components, and disciplines in order to see the “big picture” and to approach a given issue or set of issues from that larger perspective.  As managers and scientists in natural resource agencies grapple with increasingly complex and large-scale management and research efforts, massive amounts of data in many different locations, and additional reporting requirements, they need efficient, easy-to-use systems for finding, accessing, organizing, and providing data. They also need “space” for efficiently and securely collaborating with others and sharing these data, both within and across agencies.