De Soto National Forest Possible Campsites

 Module 4

This weeks lab assignment was creating a fixed distance buffer in order to represent areas that could be possible campsites. In creating this map, the goal was to show the areas that are conservation areas that could not be camped in, and give options to areas that could be camped in. After creating the fixed distance buffer, I needed to add a variable distance buffer which created an area with different lengths around points already in the data. At this point, the map was all over the place and it was hard to differentiate one layer from another. Which only got worse after adding a Multi-ring buffer. I then needed to perform a union between the features water buffer and road buffer. This union combined the data features to be a single layer while holding onto all of attributes. After that was completed, my next obstacle came, and I needed to exclude areas within the conservation area from the buffer zone to be able to view where possible campsites could be.