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This chapter reviews the application of Ecosystem Management Decision Support (EMDS) to conservation planning in a large forest landscape. A significant challenge faced by conservation planners is explicitly defining and mapping values of interest. EMDS is a powerful decision support application development tool that can be used to facilitate explicit and consistent definition of subjective conservation values, which can then be used in a variety of spatial assessments. We describe a case study for the Sierra Checkerboard Initiative where we used EMDS to assess and map three conservation values across a largely forested 4,856 km2 landscape in the northern Sierra Nevada of California: biodiversity, mature forest connectivity, and passive recreation. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]