Ted is in charge of the company's mapping and GIS services. He is a Certified GIS Professional (GISP). His professional specialties include spatial data analysis, map design and production, data collection, database maintenance, and project management. Since earning a degree in Geography from Central Washington University (1979), he has acquired over 30 years of experience as a GIS analyst and cartographer. He has extensive experience using a variety of GIS, CAD, and graphics software including ArcGIS, Spatial Analyst, 3D Analyst, Arc/Info.

He is responsible for developing and maintaining Geographic Information Systems for the 75,000 acres of timberlands managed by INFO. This entails keeping spatial datasets current, organized, and available for planning, regulatory, and record keeping purposes. He uses the data to produce maps, analyses, and reports needed for a wide variety of management purposes. The majority of the land base is SFI “green” certified and the GIS is maintained to surpass all associated requirements.

Ted has performed natural resource GIS projects on tens of millions of acres in the Western United States and Alaska. These projects include GIS services for USFS Region 1 Aerial Forest Health Survey on 77 million acres of forestland; GIS services for a study designed to determine the statistical effectiveness of Washington State forest road regulations; Construction of a GIS database of elk and deer habitat on 550,000 acres in the central Washington Cascade Mountains; GIS map production supporting stream corridor timber buffer studies located throughout Southeast Alaska; GIS Support for seventeen Watershed Administrative Unit Analyses in Washington and Oregon covering over 500,000 acres. Other projects span the Pacific Basin in places such as New Zealand, Saipan, Rota, and the Marshall Islands.

Foresters and land appraisers frequently use his services to provide GIS maps and analysis for timber and land appraisals. He is the co-author responsible for the maps in two editions of the "Pacific Northwest Trail Guide", Sasquatch Books, Seattle, WA, published in 2001.

e-mail:hitzroth@inforestry.com

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