Gunnison Mapping Services
608 West Virginia Avenue
Gunnison, CO 81230

(970) 641-5322
kankan@frontier.net
www.gunnisonmapping.com




Client: Gunnison Trails, Gunnison, CO

Project: Gunnison/Crested Butte Proposal Map

Gunnison Trails, a Colorado non-profit organization, requested a proposal map for the Gunnison/Crested Butte area. The map highlights existing & potential trail alignments on public lands. The map's purpose is to feature high-quality, non-motorized trails for minimal impact on the environment and quality-of-life and economic value for the county's citizens.


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Client: The Clarke Agency Inc., Gunnison, CO

Project: Area of Sales Map

A local real estate agent, www.clarkeagency.net, requested a specialized map be compiled for use in online business. The area of sales needed to be highlighted and identified. The realtor wanted the area of private holdings to be placed in the context of Gunnison County, State, City, & Federal lands.

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Client: 24 Hours In the Sage, Gunnison, CO

Project: Course Maps

24 Hours In the Sage is a Gunnison based, team, mountain bike endurance race/ride. Bikers traverse an offroad adventure course over a 24 hour time period. Course maps were developed for route order, elevation gain & general course information.

Client: Gunnison County Weed District, Gunnison, CO 81230

Project: Noxious Weeds Map

Gunnison County Weed District has worked to control within the county the state's (Colorado) top twenty noxious weeds for over a decade. Recent federal laws encourage the mapping of these weeds on roads within the county for baseline and management purposes. The project included gathering via a global positioning unit the weeds (from the top twenty state weed list) on all county roads with a Trimble Geoexplorer II. The positions were differentially corrected, cleaned, and transferred to a geographic information system for public display.

The two summers the data was collected were a contrast in weather. Plants in the first summer grew under minor drought conditions. Many weeds were late in blooming and were not collected in the data during the normal blooming period. Plants in the second summer received more water and grew in a fairly typical growing cycle and were collected at the more normal blooming time.

The process of collecting the data was to drive up one side of a road identifying the weeds, collecting the type, width, length, and diameter of each weed type and number, and repeating the process on the other side of the road. The weed data was differentially corrected with PathFinder software for precision. The weed data was cleaned to insure specific location and uniqueness. Topographic background to the map gave the weed data visual location for public presentation. Total acreages of each weed in the county were gathered to complete management purposes.

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Client: Hinsdale County, Lake City, CO 81235

Project: Redistricting Map

In 2001 Hinsdale County realigned its internal population boundary for the voting issues undertaken by county commissioners. A map was commissioned to display an equal population for each boundary. County population data was acquired form the 2000 United States Census Data. The boundary lines were drawn in three units for each of the commissioners. Each unit needed to represent an equal distribution of population and of demographics for the area in which each commissioner resided.

Client: Gunnison County Emergency Services, Gunnison, CO 81230

Project: Wildfire Maps

Gunnison County Emergency Services & Gunnison Basin Wildfire Council collected existing field data on subdivision lots of current owner's housing construction type, lot vegetation, lot proximity to other fire hazards, lot ground cover type, lot proximity to water sources, and vacant lot potential hazards and water sources. Each lot was given a color rating based on Colorado State Forest Service Wildfire Hazard Matrix. The County's field note maps and parcel digital data were used to digitize the wildfire ratings, to create legends, and to prepare print ready maps for the following county subdivisions: Crested Butte Highlands, Crystal Creek, Pristine Point, Meridian Lake, Meridian Lake Meadows, Quartz Creek, Whitepine, Madsen Lake Fork Cove, Rainbow Placer, Red Mountain Ranch, and Trappers Crossing. These maps are used as emergency services tools. The color matrix rating shapefiles were created to present, via the maps, each subdivision's lots potential wildfire hazard for vegetation, number and type of lot structures, and water source. Included in the work were access roads and natural and manmade water sources for emergency service needs. Attention to text accuracy, color variations, precise site placement, and readability were the focus on these maps.

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Client: United States Forest Service, Gunnison, CO 81230

Project: Threatened, Endangered, and Sensitive (TES) Species Model

The Gunnison Forest Rangeland Management Specialist requested digital data for Colorado Federal Forests' hydrology, geology, vegetation, and soil points. An extensive on-line and personal contact search resulted in collection of Colorado's current Federal Forests' data. This compilation of information and forest boundary shapefiles created a working base for the Threatened, Endangered and Sensitive (TES) vegetation species TES Model to be used for planning on Colorado's Federal Forest level. Various scenario maps were created for the Gunnison Forest, the Region, and the State. A specific plant could then be queried presenting the viewer with background on water, slope, and growth potential. TES species could then be planted and monitored during the field season by ground crews and field technicians. As additional base data is gathered during future field seasons, technicians would add this information to the model for continued query, investigation, and monitoring.

Client: Bio Environ Inc, Gunnison, CO 81230

Project: Wetlands Mitigation Maps

The Owner/Biologist requested a number of small maps be created to identify mitigation work on wetland sections of private, public, and commercial properties. In one approach or another the project maps involved adding descriptive bullets to locations on topographic maps, digitizing wetland delineation shapefiles, transferring waypoints to a database, converting to a shapefile, and again digitizing a polygon for identification and management purposes.

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Client: Town of Lake City, Colorado

Project: Noxious Weeds Survey

In the summer of 2004 bids were requested for noxious weed updates in the town of Lake City, CO. This map is the result of the GPS survey of Colorado Noxious Weeds by Gunnison Mapping. For the survey, species size and type were gathered and then transferred to street files with legend and species totals.

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