Get an insider look at the US National Park Service to see how they
use maps and geospatial technology to protect and manage America's
national parks. Maps easily cap your first greeting upon arrival at
a national park, allowing you to visualize its vastness, plan your
trip, and keep a compact souvenir of your visit. But for the US
National Park Service (NPS), maps do more than provide guidance and
navigation. Maps help the NPS protect visitors and natural
resources. They help manage fires, both unplanned and prescribed.
They provide a basis for preserving cultural resources, such as
archaeological sites and historic buildings, and for establishing
needed facilities, infrastructure, and transportation. The maps in
Mapping America's National Parks: Preserving Our Natural and
Cultural Treasures are not only beautiful representations of
special places. Within the maps are layers of geographic
information-a bevy of research and science-that the NPS uses to
perform these myriad essential services and to ultimately fulfill
their mission. With over 240 full-color maps and photographs of
national parks, monuments, battlefields, historic sites,
lakeshores, seashores, scenic rivers and trails, and more, Mapping
America's National Parks takes you on a journey through our most
treasured locations and shows how geographic information system
(GIS) software helps the NPS keep the balance between park
enjoyment and preservation. Through stories told by their own
staff, discover how GIS helps the NPS: provide security for
individual wildlife species, members of a crowd at a peaceful
demonstration, and entire ecosystems; analyze where people most
likely are stranded, where they are least likely stranded, and
distribute assets in search and rescue operations; develop
strategic plans, budgets, and protection for fire management; and
share intelligence on wildlife trafficking, zoonotic diseases,
field medicine protocols, and more. Go behind the scenes to see how
mapping and geospatial analysis support the full range of NPS
natural resource stewardship and science activities. With NPS
planning aided by geospatial technology, future generations of park
visitors-your children and their children-will be able to enjoy our
national parks for years to come.
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