GIS helps forestry management improve and sustain land conditions in forested landscapes. Spatial forest monitoring supports timber management, forest planning, forest protection, and habitat management. Harvesters use GIS to analyze stand information for meeting shifting market demands. Logging engineers use GIS to design solutions for harvest designs and stand objectives. Forestry contract administrators and fiscal accountants use GIS to generate appropriate records for harvest activities.

Sustaining forest conditions is the principal precept of forest management. GIS allows forest managers to understand and track changes of forest impact events, such as fire, floods, drought, infestation, and roads. It also provides them with the ability to design options for intervention, such as reforestation, stand tending, and thinning. Forest conservation applications are useful for disturbance analysis, conservation planning, vegetation inventory, and cumulative effects assessments. Esri's ArcGIS software provides forest managers with data management, analysis, and decision tools to do the job. Learn more about the use of GIS technology for forestry management at www.esri.com/forestry.