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GIS helping American Chestnut restoration in GA

Wednesday, February 11, 2009

Foresters in Georgia are using GIS to combine the historic distribution of the once plentiful American Chestnut trees with maps of topography, climate, soil and other factors. The result is a sophisticated analysis of a region that shows where the big trees once flourished across the state and hopefully where Castanea dentata might thrive again.

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Sustainability

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