I finally got to have some experience working with GIS today! I had originally planned to do a GIS intermediate seminar as my graduation requirement. I really liked seeing what the program was capable of doing and wanted to have a better understanding of GIS. Unfortunately, I needed something between intro and intermediate first. So the goal was to find an internship that had some GIS in it so that I could learn how to apply it. And today was finally the day!
We have to make GIS maps for all the accepted EQIP applicants showing their location in relevance to endangered or threatened species. This included finding the property through a query then creating a one mile buffer of the location. Then you clip the buffer with the list of threatened species and voila! you have your map. The fun/difficult part turned out to be trying to find different colors and patterns to assign to various species. We seem to have a lot of species with the same habitat meaning there would be 3 species all overlapped according to the map. It was fun to play with the program again and I hope to continue improving my skills.
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