The purpose of an Environmental Resource Inventory (ERI) is to identify and describe the natural resources of a community.
A community’s natural resources—its soil, water, air, forests, fields, and waterways—are fundamental to its character and quality of life. The protection and wise use of those resources is essential to the public health, safety, and welfare of both current and future residents. The ERI provides the basis for the development of methods to preserve, conserve, and utilize those resources, although it does not include specific recommendations to those ends. It is, instead, a compendium of all the existing information that can be found about a township’s natural resources, presented in a form that is useful to a broad audience.
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