Dear Pat, The workshops you announced about GIS and Nature Management look very interesting to me, esspecially because at my work (National Reference Centre for Nature Management in Wageningen, Holland) we intend to develope a National GIS database on nature and forests. This database maybe will be updated every four years after the year 2000, as part of the national topographic update cyclus. This update will have different objections: contributing to the legenda of the national maps on the one hand and filling a forest and nature geografic statistic database on the other hand. We intend to focus on special nature values, like present forest species, forest structure and forest-age. We also intend to include the soils and the hydrology into the system, in order to distinguish the (potential) (forest) flora communities on the one hand and the developments in e.g. the hydrology on the other hand. For non-forest nature areas like in the dunes or heathers arial photographes might play an important role. Though I would be very interested to visit the workshops, my employer does not have the funds to support this. Therefor I want to ask you, if it is possible to receive paper-information about the topics of the workshops. Please answer. Best regards, Erwin J. Al National Reference Centre for Nature Management p/o box 30 6700 AA Wageningen THE NETHERLANDS tel: +31-317 474 883 fax: +31-317 474 930 e-mail: e.j.al@ikcnblf.agro.nl
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