The Dutchess County Habitat Mapper is a collaborative effort between Hudsonia Ltd and a group of GIS students and their instructor at Marist College.

In 2001-2020, Hudsonia created townwide maps showing significant habitats for twelve Dutchess County towns plus the City of Poughkeepsie, along with reports describing the habitats, their ecological significance, their importance to the human community, and recommendations for conservation. The habitat information is intended to inform townwide and site-specific land use planning, policy-making, land management, and siting, design, and environmental reviews of land development projects.

In 2021-2022, Don Meltz and his GIS students at Marist College published the data contained in the habitat maps to an online platform to enable easy public access. This online map is provided as a way to visualize the habitat data alongside other GIS data.

Habitat data is available for the towns of Amenia, Beekman, Clinton, Dover, East Fishkill, Hyde Park, North East, Pine Plains, Poughkeepsie (town & city), Rhinebeck, Stanford, and Washington.

The Dutchess County habitat data can be viewed in the interactive webmap, and pdfs of the habitat reports and maps for each municipality are available through our Biodiversity Resources Center’s Maps and Reports.