Sustainable Business Practices

Creating balance between profitability and long-term sustainability

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Promoting a shared stewardship model

Many forests provide multiuse ecosystems that support recreation as well as diverse wildlife habitats that can present licensed hunting, fishing, and food gathering opportunities. Forests also help mitigate the pressures on wilderness areas when foresters use a holistic approach to manage forest health and a sustainable timber harvest, which requires understanding and compromise under a shared stewardship model. These models illuminate the value that forests provide to regional watershed services in providing clean water, erosion control, surface flow regulation, and stream bank stabilization for present and future generations.

  • Adjust for environmental factors

    Consider balanced multiuse forest management practices for improved outcomes and their broadscale importance to long-term sustainability.

  • Understand your goals

    Understand the balance of careful and selective sustainable timber harvest in the broader context, considering the holistic value of healthy forest ecosystems.

  • Balanced decision-making

    Determine more equitable solutions for long-term forest sustainability under shared stewardship models with tribal, environmental, and recreational organizations.

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Spatial analysis and data science

Explore a wide array of vector, raster, and real-time data types with powerful analytical tools to uncover new patterns and trends that can lead to greater understanding.

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Highest and best use tools

Determine the optimal use of forest land using the best data and science tools available to create the most equitable usage balance.

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Easy-to-share visual plans

Use web maps and apps to share data, projects, and plans easily between forest stewardship groups, and elicit feedback from informed stakeholders.

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ESRI BLOG

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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Products for sustainable business practices

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  • ArcGIS Image Server

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    ArcGIS Image Server provides a fast, efficient way to process, analyze, and share imagery products enterprise-wide.

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    Process, visualize, and analyze real-time data feeds; store those feeds as big data; and perform fast queries and analysis.

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  • ArcGIS Network Analyst

    Network-based spatial analysis tool

    Solve complex routing problems. Plan routes for an entire fleet, calculate drive times, locate facilities, and solve more network-related issues.

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  • ArcGIS Dashboards

    Your information at a glance

    Present location-based analytics using intuitive and interactive data visualizations on a single screen to convey information.

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