Forestry and mapping support a changing industry
GIS analysis supports critical decisions about white oak sourcing and stave mill siting. USFS surveys forest health to aid in sustainability.
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Mendocino Redwood Company leaders share their vision for sustainable forestry—modernize field workflows, support regulatory processes, and share data.
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Safeguarding white oak with GIS-enabled app
The Bourbon Barrel Oak Availability Tool was developed to balance the demand for white oak barrels and to safeguard the white oak species. -
Mapping trees helped an urban forest thrive
Arborists at the University of North Alabama use location data and smart maps to catalog campus trees. -
Imagery brings precision agriculture to forestry
F&W Forestry Services uses maps to suggest best practices and drones to monitor progress on forest management plans. -
Mill takes guesswork out of operations
Culp Lumber has embraced the enhanced workflows that online GIS makes possible to improve assessment, cutting, and hauling of lumber. -
USDA Forest Service: Stewarding forests
Inform policy and management decisions for forests with advanced remote sensing technologies in the Forest Inventory and Analysis Program. -
Streamlining logistics: Log truck routing
Tools in ArcGIS help operators estimate transportation costs, visualize haul scenarios, and determine the best way to get logs to a mill. -
Hub builds collaboration for forest plan
Montana's natural resources department uses ArcGIS Hub to combine forest condition and wildfire risk data and support collaboration. -
Field operations for environmental compliance
ArcGIS Workforce provides an accurate understanding of potential impacts to an environment so leaders can minimize detrimental effects. -
AI enhances forest sustainability in Finland
Artificial intelligence enables accurate forest inventories without field inspections, while robots hold promise for better forest management. -
Manage forest harvest and chemical activities
Forest managers use maps to track forest assets, environmental compliance, and associated activities to effectively manage costs and needs. -
Enterprise GIS reduces paper workflows
Portuguese wood supplier Abastena uses GIS to help other wood and paper companies obtain and maintain Forest Stewardship Council certification. -
Turning adversity into opportunity
Land managers interested in balancing economic concerns with environmental stewardship decide how to perform salvage logging after storms. -
Strategies for sustainable forest management
Canada's Manitoba Forestry and Peatlands Branch digitalized its silviculture survey workflow using mobile geospatial technology.
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Events
Join us virtually at the upcoming Pacific Northwest Forest Vegetation Management Conference, to be held December 6-8, 2021.
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Instructor-led and self-paced options are available to help individuals apply best practices and quickly learn ArcGIS software. Esri training consultants provide complimentary planning services to identify options that will best meet an organization's immediate, short-term, and long-term workforce training needs.
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