Colorado's Conservation Data Explorer (CODEX)
Colorado's Conservation Data Explorer (CODEX) is live. Visit CODEX here.
CODEX is a web-based interactive map viewer that includes a set of tools to support conservation planning, environmental review, evaluation of conservation portfolios, education, and more. It allows users to develop project maps and run queries, save them securely in a personal portfolio, and submit them for review to multiple stakeholders. CODEX users are able to access an extraordinary range of pertinent data in context with project boundaries.
The technology that runs CODEX is developed by NatureServe, our partner in hosting this tool.
Learn how to use the wealth of data available on CODEX to quantify the benefits of conservation in the Valuing Private Land Conservation in Colorado Using CODEX StoryMap
Explore the CODEX Story Map at NatureServe
Watch the CODEX presentation at the CPW 2020 Partners in the Outdoors Conference
CODEX white paper:
CODEX was launched on November 1, 2021.
CODEX was developed in close coordination with our partners at CPW who have administrative privileges and will review projects that involve resources for which they are responsible. CPW will have control over how their data are displayed, curated, and used in the environmental review process. CODEX will help CPW to implement the SWAP and share it with the public.
We are partnering closely with the private lands conservation community, most notably Keep it Colorado, Colorado Futures, and CCALT to develop CODEX to support efforts in establishing and managing conservation easements.
We would love to talk with you about CODEX and we want to make it as useful to you as possible!
You can reach us at: Michael Menefee and David G. Anderson.
