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NorthTree Fire International's GIS Section provides cutting-edge mobile mapping services during complex emergency events. Our mobile GIS units are also available for pre-fire planning and fuels reduction assessments.

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Incident Mapping Professionals

NTFI's GIS team draws upon the knowledge base of a diverse group of individuals with expertise in:

NTFI GIS Team Training in NTI-281, May 2004

Key GIS Team Members

Mapping Manager/GIS Team Leader - Zeke Lunder

Zeke Lunder received a degree in Cartography and Physical Geography from California State University, Chico. He has worked as a wildland fire planner and GIS Analyst since 1996. Publications include: the Lassen Foothills Fire Management Plan for Nature Conservancy land in Eastern Tehama County, Northern California, and a Fire Management Plan for the 50,000 acre Morro Bay Estuary watershed, on the California Central Coast .

Mr. Lunder is an NWCG qualified GIS Specialist, with over 3,000 hours experience mapping large wildland fires in the Western U.S. Since 1999 he has: performed surface erosion/landslide hazard analyses for Burned Area Emergency Rehabilitation (BAER) teams after large wildland fires in Idaho, Montana, and Northern California, flown oblique aerial photography missions for use in wildland fuels assessments and post-fire burn-intensity mapping, and mapped fire perimeters with aerial GPS. In 2003, he designed presidential briefing maps during the Cedar Fire in Southern California.

As Mapping Manager for NTFI, Mr. Lunder trains and manages call-when-needed Incident GIS technicians, designs and builds mobile GIS mapping facilities, and manages NTFI's non-emergency GIS mapping contracts. He is a red-carded firefighter, working with NTFI's prescribed fire and fuels divisions to develop prescribed burning and mechanical fuels treatment projects.

GIS Lead - Paul Silveira

Since 2002, Paul has accumulated more than 1,200 hours working either as a GIS Trailer Manager, GIS Tech, or GIS Lead on incidents including the Biscuit, Tiller, Apple, Fawn Peak, Clark, Canoe/Honeydew, and Cedar fire where he acted as GIS Lead and designed Presidential briefing maps. Mr. Silveira has a degree in Physical Science from CSU, Chico.

GIS Lead - Jed Little

Jed Little has a Master of Arts in Geography (with emphasis in Cartography, GIS, and Rural, Town, and Regional Planning), from the University of Montana. He has worked in incident mapping since 2002, on fires including the Tiller Complex, Apple Fire, and Cedar Fire - where he designed presidential briefing maps.

Mr. Little is a GIS professional, working as Principal Cartographer for the Missoula County Weed District. In this role, he creates maps for specific projects and weed management areas. He develops and maintains a geographic database of all noxious weeds, grant areas and noxious weed control actions mapped by Missoula County, and assists Weed District staff with the interpretation of maps and air photos.

GIS Tech - Joe Larson

Mr. Larson comes to NTFI from San Luis Obispo, where he recently finished a Forestry/Ecology Degree. Joe is a red-carded firefighter, having spent 3 seasons on a hand crew on the Los Padres National Forest.

GIS Tech - Jarrod Dowden

Mr. Dowden also comes to NTFI from San Luis Obispo, where he recently finished a Forestry Degree. Jarrod is a red-carded firefighter, qualified as Squad Boss.

GIS Tech - Christopher Hall

Mr. Hall comes to NTFI from Ukiah, Ca, where he ran the City of Ukiah's GIS Department. He also has fire experience, having spent two summers operating water tenders on CDF and USFS fires.

GIS Tech - Justen Maxey

Mr. Maxey joined NTFI's mapping team in 2007, and quickly racked up over 750 hours experience. He is a NWCG taskbooked GISS mapping specialist, having worked as a lead GIS tech on the Cascade and Landmark Complexes, in Central Idaho, and as a GIS trailer manager on the Poomacha Fire, in San Diego County in fall 2007. Mr. Maxey has a BA from Humboldt State in Archaeology, and a GIS certificate from Portland State. He lives in Portland, Oregon.

GIS Tech - Will Lundy

Will has worked for NTFI since 2006, and has experience mapping fires in Idaho and Southern California. He has a degree in Computer Science for the California State University.

GIS Tech - Nate Greenberg

As the managing partner of a full-time technology consulting company with two regional California offices (Talon Associates), Nate Greenberg has been applying GIS technology to environmental management since 1996. During this period he has worked for clients ranging from the University of California to small rural counties, and for federal entities including the USGS and the US Forest Service. He has strong skills in system implementation, standardization issues, network administration, training, support and data development.

A graduate of UC Davis, Mr. Greenberg serves as Mono County's GIS Coordinator and Lead GIS Consultant. In this capacity he has developed parcel mapping layers for Mono County, designed and implemented a County-wide Enterprise GIS leveraging over 50 unique datasets from different departments into a Web-based GIS application, and developed a formal training method with manuals and PowerPoint pertaining to GIS Base map maintenance. He facilitates the GIS Working Group for Mono County, California, serves on the Technical Advisory Committee for the Eastern Sierra Land Trust regarding GIS issues.

GIS Tech - Dave Jukkola

Dave Jukkola comes to NorthTree from the Nature Conservancy's Sacramento River Project - where he worked on various initiatives that The Nature Conservancy and its partners are developing to restore the riparian ecosystem of the Sacramento River on over 100 river miles, from Red Bluff to Colusa. Dave is an experienced whitewater guide.

The Power of Experience

NTFI Mapping Specialists share over 8,000 hours experience providing innovative mapping solutions for Incident Management and Burned Area Emergency Rehabilitation Teams during major wildland fire incidents including: The 1999 Butte Complex; the Clear Creek, Burgdorf, and Frank Church Wilderness Complex "Idaho fires of 2000"; the Martis, Devil, Oregon, Powerhouse, Poe, Gasquet, 70, Blue Complex, and Purdy Fires in 2001, the Cannon, Monument, Malheur Complex, Biscuit and Tiller Complex in 2002, and the Space Shuttle Columbia Recovery, Clark and Fawn Peak, Humboldt Lightning/Canoe, and Cedar fires in 2003.