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View maps created by fellow professionals in the forestry community.

Volume 23—GIS—Geography in Action

Forest Type Map of Wondeok, South KoreaForest Type Map of Wondeok, South Korea
The Korea Forest Research Institute created a map showing the status of the types of forests in Wondeok, an area in Samcheok City, South Korea. Much of the forest in the mountain ranges was burned down by a large wildfire in April 2000.

Volume 22—GIS—The Geographic Approach

Berens River Forest Blowdown Damage Viewscape AnalysisBerens River Forest Blowdown Damage Viewscape Analysis
As part of the planning process for the Whitefeather Forest Initiative, the Whitefeather Forest Management Corporation directed the preparation of a computer viewscape analysis of how the blowdown would be seen from various vantage points along the Berens River and what the zone would look like if forestry operations had occurred in the area affected by the tornado.

Volume 21—GIS—Communicating Our World

map imagePikangikum First Nation Atlas—Special Ecological Values
The Whitefeather Forest is an indigenous cultural landscape of the Pikangikum people. They have achieved this through customary resource stewardship practices and management tools supported by a rich indigenous knowledge tradition.

Volume 20—GIS—Helping Manage Our World

Tok, Alaska fire historyTaylor Complex—Tok, Alaska
This map shows the fire history or fire progression of the region of Alaska that is north of the Alaska Range and just west of the Alaska/Canada border from June 24 to July 24.



Volume 19—GIS—The Language of Geography

Dinan Bay ForestDinan Bay Forest Development Plan
This map formulates a part of the annual forest development plan (FDP) for Weyerhaeuser Company Ltd., Queen Charlotte Islands Timberlands Unit.



The Map Book Gallery features the ESRI Map Book series dedicated to acknowledging the important and innovative accomplishments of GIS users around the world.

Published annually, each volume of the ESRI Map Book showcases a small portion of the work presented at the Map Gallery Exhibition at the annual ESRI International User Conference.


 
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