Grant Application and Report Maps

GIS Visualizations that Make Aquatic Invasive Species Management Easier to Explain

Overview

The Upper Saranac Foundation needed to communicate the location, scale, and progress of milfoil-management work on Upper Saranac Lake and Follensby Clear Pond to funders, agencies, and other stakeholders. Green Goat Maps developed GIS-based visualizations specifically for grant applications and project reporting.

Scope of Work

Green Goat Maps was contracted to map milfoil-affected areas, treatment and removal activity, conservation priorities, and relevant lake features; integrate project GIS data; and produce visualizations suitable for proposals, progress documentation, reports, and stakeholder communication.

Key Deliverables

The maps translate spatial management data into graphics that can be understood without requiring the reader to work directly with GIS. Outputs were prepared for both digital and printed applications.

Challenges & Solutions

Aquatic invasive-species data are spatial, dynamic, and technically detailed. A grant reviewer does not necessarily need to see every underlying observation—they need to understand the management story the data support. Green Goat Maps organized the information around treatment extent, location, and change so the maps functioned as evidence rather than decoration.

Results & Client Value

The Upper Saranac Foundation gained a repeatable way to communicate field data to funders, partner organizations, and agencies through maps that complement written grant and reporting materials.

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If your funding application depends on explaining where environmental work occurred and why it matters, Green Goat Maps can turn your GIS and monitoring data into clear supporting evidence.