What is Bart?
By MacKay Gibbs
As UVE’s 2025 EOV season comes to an end, our EOV crew is reflecting on all the miles traveled, landbases surveyed, land steward conversations, and the unexpected challenges we were able to overcome. Monitors Rachel Lohof Larsen, Sarah Choi, Megan Weeber, Chris Hart, Dylan Boeken, West Lambert, Spencer Tregilgas, Turie Norman, and Madison Throop performed Ecological Outcome Verification (EOV) monitoring on 45 landbases, in 7 states, covering over 500,000 acres. To be able to complete this amount of work within the span of a few months requires amazing teamwork, stamina, perseverance, a good sense of humor, and a piece of technology known as Bart.
Who is Bart?
Not who but what...
Bart is a proprietary software developed by our partner hub in the UK, 3LM, to increase the efficiency of Ecological Outcome Verification (EOV) in support of large-scale global monitoring.
Bart being used to collect data in South Dakota in 2024
EOV has long been at the heart of ensuring land health, but traditional methods have presented significant challenges in terms of scalability, efficiency, and accessibility. Paper-based documentation has slowed progress, made data management cumbersome, and created unnecessary barriers to achieving real impact. Bart was developed to revolutionize the EOV process and accelerate the global transition to regenerative land management.
Real-time Data Collection
Traditional EOV methods relied on paper documentation, making data collection time-consuming, error-prone, and difficult to scale. With Bart, 3LM is working to reduce inefficiencies. Instead of using paper and pen to document landbase data and, at a later date, entering that data manually into a platform, Bart enables real-time data collection, allowing monitors to enter Ecological Health Index (EHI) scores and capture notes and photographs efficiently in the field. This allows monitors to focus on identifying patterns in the landscape that drive meaningful change. Data entered in the field is uploaded in real-time and available for reporting. This gives land stewards timely access to information in support of informed decision-making and proactive land management.
Scaling EOV for Global Impact
Screenshot from the Bart portal showing UVE landbases in 2025
Bart expands the reach and effectiveness of regenerative agriculture by allowing UVE and other Savory hubs to scale EOV rapidly without compromising accuracy or efficiency. Bart streamlines data collection and reporting, providing a seamless, technology-driven approach to monitoring land health. With thousands of land bases to assess worldwide, traditional methods simply couldn’t keep up. Bart provides a solution that can work anywhere on the planet, even in remote areas with no internet access. As of 2025, Bart is being used in multiple countries to monitor over 5.5 million acres in 35 different ecoregions.
Bart is more than just a tool—it’s a catalyst for global regeneration: making EOV faster, more scalable, and paving the way for a truly regenerative future.
West Lambert and Dora Cohen enter EOV data into Bart during a Baseline monitoring event in Union, Oregon in July 2025.
MacKay Gibbs, MBA is UVE’s EOV Program Coordinator