The Wilderness Society helps community, conservation and sustainable development organizations develop baseline information about local and regional economic and demographic trends. This information can then be used in planning and development efforts as well in conservation advocacy campaigns.

How do we make a living today? That's probably the most important first question a community needs to ask and answer as it thinks about its economic future. All too often the question isn't asked or is answered incorrectly.

The Wilderness Society helps community, conservation and sustainable development organizations develop baseline information about local and regional economic and demographic trends. This information can then be used in planning and development efforts as well in conservation advocacy campaigns. Our help often includes cosponsoring a Community Economic Assessment Workshop, where participants develop trend information on their own and consider the implications of those trends with others in the community.

The Society has created an on-line, interactive map-based means of quickly gathering trend information for any region in the eastern United States. Its name is OIK/OS and you can give it a try.