Maps
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Our Home Bioregion:
Cordova, Prince William Sound, Copper River Delta		Chugach National Forest		Copper River Watershed		Copper River Watershed: Bering River Coalfields and Katalla Oil Field
				See maps on the Chugach National Forest Revision Plan from the Alaska Conservation Alliance
Land Ownership, Roads, and Roadless Areas on the Chugach National Forest		Prince William Sound/Copper River Delta Ecosystem: Biological and Ecological Resources
The Exxon Valdez Oil Spill
GIS of Exxon Oil Spill Affected Area		Unprotected Lands in Exxon Valdez Spill Zone		Impaired Waterways in Alaska		Exxon Oil Spill Affected Area
Arctic Alaska and Oil
Alaska's Arctic Slope		Oil Exploration and Development in America's Arctic		Arctic Refuge Coastal Plain and Porcupine Caribou Herd Nursing Grounds		Arctic Alaska and Northwest Canada (and National Wildlife Refuge)
More Arctic National Wildlife Refuge links from the Alaska Conservation Alliance
The Coastal Temperate Rainforest
Basic Alaska Rainforest locator map		Original Distribution of the Coastal Temperate Rainforest		Current Status of the Coastal Temperate Rainforest		Watershed Condition in the Coastal Temperate Rainforest
Conservation of Roadless Wildlands in the Tongass National Forest
Native Language				Salmon
		See also the Aboriginal Mapping Network
Status of Native Language Groups				Salmon and Steelhead Stock Status of the Pacific Northwest Coast and Alaska

Further Map Links

Inforain presents Ecotrust's GIS portfolio, a network of information allowing users to achieve a deeper understanding of their local watersheds, estuaries and forests as well as a broader comprehension of these places within a bioregional context. See the Inforain map archive page or Inforain mapdesk

For more maps regarding the Lower Pacific Northwest see:

• Priorities for Salmon Restoration by Coastal Watershed


• Healthy Stocks and Streams of Oregon and Washington


• Overcut in British Columbia, Based on TSA and TFL Data


• A Natural History of Salmon

The Aboriginal Mapping Network is a collection of resource pages for First Nation mappers who are looking for answers to common questions regarding mapping, information management and GIS. The AMN has a British Columbia focus, but is not limited to this geographic region. It is intended to be used by any group who is active in aboriginal mapping, from the introductory level, to the advanced. It is a source for both technical information on GIS mapping, to general information relevant to decision makers.

Examples of resources on their site are:

• Boundary Chaos! A map illustrating the overlapping First Nation and Land and Resource Management Plan (LRMP) boundaries in B.C.



• Alaska Native Knowledge Network Cultural Atlases: The resources at this site, including numerous maps and atlases, provide examples and guidance about ways in which the rich oral traditions of Native people can be drawn upon in support of the school curriculum.



• Arctic Educational Atlas

MAPS: GIS Windows on Native Lands, Current Places, and History
This page contains dozens of viewable maps related to and done by First Nations in Canada and the United States. Maps are organized by topics which include Historical, Cultural, Political Maps, Canadian First Nations Treaties, Band Contacts, US Tribes by Regions and States, and Individual Native Sites Maps.

Thanks

Map sources are listed on maps. Special thanks to the following organizations for lending use of these maps:

The Conservation GIS Support Center, a project of Ecotrust and Alaska Conservation Alliance. Alaska Conservation Alliance (ACA) is a statewide coalition of 45 conservation groups & businesses representing over 35,000 individual members. The GIS support center produces discrete, issue specific GIS products to advance the conservation perspective on priority issues, provide hands-on training to conservation activist, and provides technical assistance and support to conservation organizations who have limited but growing GIS capacity of their own.
750 W. 2nd Ave. Suite 109, Anchorage, AK 99501. (907) 258- 6173.

Ecotrust is a nonprofit organization dedicated to supporting the emergence of a conservation economy along North America's rain forest coast, the region from San Francisco to Anchorage. We work in urban and rural areas to support entrepreneurs whose work improves environmental, economic, and social conditions.
Alaska Office, 119 Seward St. Suite 19, Juneau, Alaska, 99801. (907) 586 2301
or
Ecotrust
1200 NW Naito Parkway, Suite 470, Portland, OR 97209
Tel: 503 227 6225, Fax: 503 222 1517

What is GIS? (taken from the Inforain homepage)
Maps have been used for thousands of years, but it is only within the last few decades that the technology has existed to combine maps with computer graphics and databases to create geographic information systems or GIS.

GIS is used to display and analyze spatial data which are tied to a relational database. This connection is what gives GIS its power: maps can be drawn from the database and data can be referenced from the maps. When a database is updated, the associated map can be dynamically updated as well. GIS databases include a wide variety of information: geographic, social, political, environmental, and demographic.

GIS uses layers, called "themes," to overlay different types of information, much as some static maps use mylar overlays to add tiers of information to a geographic background. Each theme represents a category of information, such as roads or forest cover. As with the old mylar maps, the layers which are underneath remain visible while additional themes are placed above.

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